I guess this is my “Dear John” letter, Senator McCain…except…

I’m going to ask you to take me seriously.  When I say “Dear John” I refer to all the males of the Democratic Party, which I no longer consider “my party.”

I’ve just seen how savage the Patriarchy actually is, in terms of Hillary Clinton.  And I know you are a rogue.

What would a rogue do? (And now I’m smiling)…because while the Democratic Party is going to try and destroy your credibility the way they have with Hillary, it’s not going to happen.

Meet your first Feminist Rogue.  There are millions of me.  We are the tail end of the Baby Boom.  We are highly educated.  We are PUMAs.  We are the “sweeties” who were groped on the jobs we wanted so badly.  We are the women who had to have an abortion when our lovers abandoned us.  Some of us have been victims of domestic violence or rape.  Some of us raised, or are raising our children alone.  Like you, maybe we are on a second or third marriage, or even a fourth.  What do you want to bet we wanted the same sexual freedoms men had?

While you were in Vietnam, a bunch of us little kids marched carrying peace signs.  I’m never going to know what you suffered Senator McCain.  But I have tears in my eyes at this moment, thinking about it.  The closest film I can come up with is Apocalypse Now.

I’m going to vote for you.  Because you do know history.  I’m not too crazy about the fascist aspects of what I have just seen from my old camp.  I helped the poor for years, as a Democrat.  But, now I see the corruption inside the Party, and I’m leaving.  I feel I know you.  I feel you know me.  I feel a Jimi Hendrix moment coming on.

If you knew how we feel as women right now?  If you knew.

What has happened to Hillary Clinton is SAVAGE.  The Democratic Party can FUCK OFF.

You make a new Party.  You are the only one that can, right now.  You solve the war front.  Hillary will solve the home front.  If we ever needed a moment of Nationalism, it’s right now.  The two of you could do it.

I know you know that.  So, I’m going to take you back, through the corridors of history we have lived together, and I’m going to play you a song.  Please, Senator McCain.  Please channel Teddy and FDR.  I know you can, and I know you can channel JFK, too.

Here is my salute to you, as an American Hero.

You know Senator McCain, sometimes it takes a village.  And sometimes it takes a village of ROGUES, doesn’t it?  You just enlisted one of the biggest female feminist ROGUES on this planet, Senator McCain.  I know what you’re made out of.  And I’d like to think that when I became a junior feminist at thirteen, it was because I was a Girl Scout, once upon a time.  Maybe the day I marched for you and the other boys over in Vietnam, it was to bring you home, for precisely this moment.

I don’t need those dumbell left wingers any more than you need the far right.  Ethics? You’ve got them in spades on that FEC deal, don’t you?  Thank you for that, and I love and respect you.  Roe v Wade?  Ask Cindy.  She’ll help you realize what we fought for.  You know, I almost voted for you last time.  Damn.

Bravery?  That would be you.  I vote for the “person” not “the PARTY” because “the personal is the political.”

Here’s looking at you kid.