"I am assuming for now that this is a single-issue election. There is one's subjective vote, one's objective vote, and one's ironic vote. Subjectively, Bush (and Blair) deserve to be re-elected because they called the enemy by its right name and were determined to confront it. Objectively, Bush deserves to be sacked for his flabbergasting failure to prepare for such an essential confrontation. Subjectively, Kerry should be put in the pillory for his inability to hold up on principle under any kind of pressure. Objectively, his election would compel mainstream and liberal Democrats to get real about Iraq.
The ironic votes are the endorsements for Kerry that appear in Buchanan's anti-war sheet The American Conservative, and the support for Kerry's pro-war candidacy manifested by those simple folks at MoveOn.org. I can't compete with this sort of thing, but I do think that Bush deserves praise for his implacability, and that Kerry should get his worst private nightmare and have to report for duty."
Hmmm...wonder why the contradiction? (Although, upon re-reading Chris's statement, perhaps, SLATE, in their zeal, assumed Hitchens to be supporting Kerry rather than Bush. Perhaps a mis-print?) In any event, I find Hitchens to be a brilliantly straight shooter.
(Oh....my ....gosh!!! I said "straight"! Does that make me a "homophobe"?)
Crikey, one more politcial ad, and I'll be figurin' out how to tie a noose! I'm SO burnt out! I, too, am getting more than 5 calls a day, to remind me to vote.
It can be fun, though. Get a live one, and you tell 'em you're voting in the opposite direction! Drives 'em crazy! Hey, who said politics could'nt be more fun than a barrel o' monkeys!
"I think, that all right-thinking people, are sick and tired of being told that they are sick and tired of being sick and tired. I, for one, am not. And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!"
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