Oh, Grandpa... just go home, will you?

This is Sunday and I cannot believe that in two more days I will actually have a life again.  The rain started pouring down here today - late for the northwest  where I live - and all I could think was... thank goodness Washington votes by mail.  I realize how crazy this thinking is, but everything I experience these days is filtered through and linked to our political climate and our presidential campaign.

I am not the only political nutcake out there, so what are we going to do with ourselves on Wednesday?  Am I thinking too far ahead for you?  Okay, so you may be too busy calling those undecided voters, or the others with whom you think your own candidate has a chance, but what then?  I am emotionally and physically exhausted from this campaign, still, every chance I get I check the polls, the newspapers, the blogs and have set my email for all breaking news political updates. 

Even though my daughter works in politics and I have always been an activist for certain things, I have never volunteered as much for any campaign as I have for this one.  I hope no one gives up just yet.  We really do need every single eligible voter to exercise their Constitutionally-given right and pick the man who is best for leading our country out of this black hole.  As Michael Moore has said,  email blast everyone in your address book and remind them to vote.

I hope John McCain and Sarah Palin will go mildly into the night and I encourage him particularly to go back to Arizona or wherever he usually lives.  Alaska still wants Sarah back, so hopefully she'll be back with her constituents and children soon.  I wish them well.  I really do, I just think Grandpa should give it up and Sarah should go back to school and actually learn something this time.  If any of you think our educational system isn't in trouble, think about it.  Sarah Palin is a college graduate.

And this Joe the Plumber business?  Joe, of course, doesn't pay his taxes and is unlicensed in a state that requires licensing for plumbers, but who cares.  He's one of the 'real' Americans, not the fake ones like me.  Now Joe has a publicist and is seeking a country recording contract.  McCain's latest promise to 'bring Joe to Washington' with him is even scarier.  Do we really need any other neocon, but this time with borderline intelligence, to add to the Beltway?

Anyway, I am glad I am almost done working in the campaign.  Today I realized I have exhausted myself almost beyond recognition when a passerby said hello and I asked her if she had voted yet.  I have nothing left to give.  Beyond the hundreds of hours I have called people, I phone-banked all last week too.  My son-in-law and daughter are still phone-banking this weekend and my son and husband have also done all they could. 

Hope some of you still have some gas left.  We just need to find a way to make it through the next couple of days without having a complete breakdown. 
 
Until then... Go Obama/Biden!  May there be a new dawn on November 5th.