As I sit here absorbing the various arguments back and forth supporting this "ceiling breaking" candidate over the other, versus the "maverick," I've come to a conclusion.  My child, our Veterans, our troops, our seniors, our middle class, our least advantaged, our collective dreams, deserve more.
I accepted and appreciated the Clintons for the most part during the 1990s.  The bitter taste of the closing Clinton years led me to support McCain in 2000.  The disappointments of the current administration and McCain's seeming embracing of its doctrines have opened me to the possibility of Obama.
Yet here I sit, a Blue State Republican, increasingly becoming disillusioned with the pettiness, the arrogance, and the advancing myopia of them all.
No one has fully addressed the violations of the Constitution.  Obama, being a Constitutional Law Professor, has been mum.  One would think he would Champion louder and with more credibility than anyone the sacredness of our founding document.  He hasn't.  He seems in love with the sound of his own voice.  (be it a voice that has inspired more Americans to participate on the process.  Always a good thing)
McCain knows more about the ideals of this great Nation, the values that have endured and enlightened.  Yet he panders on principles and waffles on torture.  He embraces policies and personalities he himself once found abhorrent.  And sadly has said very little, if anything, about unifying this country and condemning the 51% doctrine of the past. 
Hillary Clinton stresses that she is "tested" battle harden, knows how and is ready to "take on" the Republicans.  She's a "fighter" and knows how to "defeat" the Republican party.  
I'm a Republican who is tired of fighting.  And as an American I have more enemies and fewer constant allies than eight years ago.  I don't need another American to want to fight me.  I need someone who can respect me and persuade me on why theirs is the better idea.  
And please stop talking about the 1990s.  If your husband's presidency were a little more focused, fewer people would have had a reason to vote for Ralph Nader in Florida and elsewhere, and Al Gore would have been President.  (I doubt he would have made the same missteps of the past).  And I think more moderate Republicans would have been elected to congress.
I want my Country back.  I want it out of the hands of the lobbyists, out of the hands of the extremists on both sides, out of the hands of the power-drunk "politico-holics" who only want to preserve the status-quo, the antiquated paradigms, the dumbing down of this great Nation, of which I've served and I love.
There is no law that says we have to tear each other apart in order to carve out a better tomorrow.
We can stand together.  In fact we must.We deserve more.