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Here's one that swayed me a bit. Certainly wouldn't have guessed from his columns...
Christopher Hitchens: Kerry
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.
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