I found a post over at the green mommy (whom I normally dig) that made my hair stand on end:
She said “I’m not getting involved in the hype” in the election this year.

This was my response to her:

Wow…
What can I say? I’ve been involved with both the 2 major political parties, and I’ve even taken my babies to a State Political Conventions (and breastfed them there!)

I am always the only mother there.

It’s lonely at county party meetings, and caucuses, and conventions, and political clubs, and meet-ups, and political fund raisers.
And everyone wants their picture taken with me and my kids, but no one wants to listen to me.

Because I’m the only mother there.

Politicians don’t see mothers, and so they think we don’t care.
Why don’t any other mothers care enough to tell them different?

I’m sick of being the only mother the politicians see. Please go to a caucus or a state convention this year–and don’t forget to bring your kids.

I’ve been told that “mommies” aren’t an important constituent–out of sight, out of mind.
I’ve been told that “mothers don’t have time to care about politics, or even to vote.”
Is this true?!
No one told me!

I went to a convention once, and a man whom I can’t ever remember seeing stopped short, looked at me and said: “Did you switch babies?” Haha. He evidentially remembered me from the previous election cycle, and in the two years since, I had had another baby.
That’s pretty much proof that I’m the only mommy there.
Everyone else is single and young, or else have kids that are grown and gone.
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