The more I think about your choice of running with Sarah Palin, the more pissed it makes me. While I am a woman and a feminist, and I dream to someday be able to vote a qualified woman into office, it is obvious that you have missed the point.

It is important to me as a woman, a worker, a small business owner and a mother to have someone qualified working for me and my country. I don't care what chromosomes they have, if their skin is black, white, purple or green, or any other stupid division that should have been put to rest decades ago... I care that they are qualified.

The fact that you have decided that a less-than-one-term hockey-mom is your best concession to equality is laughable. The idea that a woman as VP is being hailed as groundbreaking, when the democrats ran a qualified woman when I was 10, is ridiculous. The fact that you think that you can court my vote by throwing up a token beauty queen onto your ticket is utterly insulting.

You, Mr. McCain, are consistently proving that you belong somewhere in the last century. Your so called "maverick move" only shows that you don't get it at all. I'm not voting for someone just because she is a woman, I'm voting for the best person for the job. Thinking anything less of me, and women like me, is the biggest insult an out of touch man like yourself can give.