And Speaking of Change ...

Candidates for the U.S. Presidency persistently assure us that they will make the best choices for America. To some degree we logically review their record to see if it matches their campaign promises.

The BIG Decision for any Presidential Candidate – the most clear indication of how involved the party or advisors will be, and the quality of their future decisions, is their choice of a running mate.

That is why many of us were surprised that Change chose an entrenched Washington insider. His choice was a Senator deeply-rooted in Washington Politics for more than thirty-years. We were equally shocked when Maverick chose a strong, conservative woman with no experience inside the Beltway.

Yes, yes, I know, Change had to address the perceived fears of the electorate that he is inexperienced. And Maverick had to do something to off-set the perception that he is Bush III.

For the record, the evidence says that we don’t generally make our purchase or voting choices logically.

I’m not sure we care if Change is inexperienced. We just don’t want him to be Jimmy Carter – so naïve about how Washington works that they eat him alive and we get four years of impassioned stagnation in the face of daunting national issues.

I am also quite sure that we don’t want four more years of the tone-deaf, slow-to-respond, single-focus Presidency we have experienced for the last eight years.

But right now it appears that Change and the Entrenched Insider have ceded the Change Position to Maverick and the New Face of Feminism.

It also appears that the deciding factor in this election may well be undecided women voters, and that there are more women voters in this category than ever before.

Maverick looks like he made a careful, creative and astute judgment while Change looks like he allowed the Party Apparatus to foist a “good-ole boy” on him.

What really matters is not what we think but how we - and especially the undecided voters, feel about the differences in the two tickets. Hopefully we can sort out our emotions and have a conclusive answer early in November.