Not even an absence

My candidate, I'd like to be enthusiastic for you, have ready stories to tell, have telling arguments to make on your behalf--but I can't. The contest is an important one--but nothing comes to mind when think about convincing others. Working for other candidates, I've been able to find something to get excited about. There's a kind of negative energy around you, a sink into which my readiness to work disappears as if into sand. If you were not my party's nominee...

Granted there's lots about you I don't know so I go to your website, to  the issues. It seems like vapid verbiage.Where's vision? Where are you? Is there nothing but simple ambition for political advancement (as with the other guy?)

You're far from stupid. I've heard people say you are good to work for. I'm sure, in social situations, you are very personable. Why then do you arouse so little enthusiasm even among people who want, want to be pepped up for you? Even your partisans say you waffle, that you're ever a 'one the one hand...on the other' kind of person, and that you have poor judgment, a tin ear for what are reasonable expectations of constituents and potential voters. I'd like to refute these or offset them with something overwhelmingly positive but you haven't given me anything. You simply carry on imperturbable as if nothing were expected of you than you are giving.

We are voters deciding to whom to entrust our future. We have a right to demand: be real, be present to us, be someone.

God-in-love, sometimes you seem as elusive, as indifferent to our opinions. Fully occupied, in the midst of my richly furnished world and schedule, I need more than just a titular presence if I am to be one of your enthusiastic partisan. I want something of yours that speaks of who you are to hold onto as a talisman, representing what I know and can therefore speak about with conviction. I want something that represents your energy, your potentiality, your power to me, in me.

It need not be much--a special look, a turn of phrase, a move--something that unmistakably says, 'This is who you are.' 'That's so Peter,' someone might say about something I do, and they'd be right. 'That's so God-in-love,' is what I want to hear myself say--and sometimes, wonderfully, I actually do.

My candidate, I'll support you, even though you continually refuse to be someone to me, for the sake of the principles of the party we both belong to.