I wanted to be purple. I have wanted to be purple for a long time. I caught a glimpse of purple when 9-11 happened. No longer was I red or blue, I was purple and so was everybody else.

I have always hated hyphens. We are a colorbook  world and I love that we are all different, but hyphens remind me of the dividers in the crayon box that keep the yellows far away from the purples. They are all crayons. I mean, magenta and forest green can be great combinations.

What does this all mean? I love being an American. Like most Americans the hyphens that would go before the word American are many. It is the melting pot effect. I am proud of my roots, all of them. But the name that holds them all together is American. I do not like being a divided America, filled with divided Americans. For awhile 9-11 took away the hyphens and we were all Americans, period.

So when Obama began his campaign of CHANGE and said there is no red America and no blue America just the The United States of America I loved his words. I thought could we all become PURPLE? Could this be the blending of Reagan Republicans and Roosevelt Democrats? Could Red and Blue actually make purple?

So I have waited and prayed. I have watched and listened. I held on to hope for our country, Not the Candidate,the ideal: the Ideal of Purple. The Lord knows the issues that seal my heart, but when neither candidate really holds on to them I trust the Lord to reveal what I need to see. This translates in me listening to Obama and Rick Warren and turning to my husband every other answer and saying "Darn, I wish I didn't like him so much. "

And then today happened! And all of a sudden I not only saw the cardboard dividers go back up, I think we are being moved to different boxes completely. The purple candidate picked royal blue as his running mate. Back to the old guard he fled, chosing to court the old blue pantsuit crowd over the hopeful red violet clan. There is no purple here, there is NO CHANGE. It is the same old blue. He lost the vision.

Maybe McCain will capitalize on this loss of vision and seek the scarlet and the violet and the few blues that actually believe in REAL Change. And maybe in the process find the candidate that completes him rather than defines him.

Maybe this all comes from my mama singing to me, "He was a one eyed one horned flying purple people eater."Such a sight to see.

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PRAISE THE LORD I HAVE HOPE AGAIN!

I have a candidate I believe in!

A Candidate that holds true to MY Values, Morals and Beliefs

"And maybe in the process find the candidate that completes him rather than defines him" AND McCain did!

I have hope in Sarah Palin. Maybe the closest I will ever get to Purple is Red Violet. But it is a purple and she is a change!

The funniest challenges I have heard....

She has no foreign Policy experience.  ROFL! Are they really that geographically challenged? Do they not know that her neighbors ARE Foreign Nations and one would like to attack us all the time? Canada and Russia are not like Biden's neighbors New Jersey and Maryland! What a joke!

She has no experience... So what you are sayingis I can choose a President with 143 actual days of Senate experience or a Governor of two years as a VICE President that will get OJT from the President??? hmmm????

And lastly.... The party of NOW Feminism says and I quote " She has five children, how can she do her job as VP?" My word! Isn't that what they havebeen shouting about for forty years? And woman CAN do the Job of a man and still be a mother!!!

It doesn't matter that her children are mostly grown, that her husband quit his job to support her Governorship. AGAIN isn't that what they ALWAYS wanted? That he is a qualified Father and can care for their children just as well as she coud?

If they really are afraid of anything, it is her "CHOICE" to carry her beautiful baby to term. When they challenge that, it will really hit the fan!

Sarah Palin welcome to the Ballot! You are the reason I am supporting McCain. YOU absolutely complete the ticket!