I feel like I should say more about it, and I no doubt will, later. It’s a pity that support of either candidate has to carry with it such immediate assumptions about what someone believes in as well. As seems so often true, I suspect the balloting in November’s election will be accompanied by a lot of nose-holding, on both sides, as folks vote for the lesser of two evils (or against the evil of two lessers).
There remains room for mind change here. I’m in no way, shape, or form, a True Believer in Bush, no matter how much I’ve sometimes seemed to be an apologist for him; I tend to be an apologist for anyone who’s being nailed too hard for reasons I think are unfounded, whether it’s Bush, or Clinton before him.
It may well be that Kerry can impress me greatly between now and November. It may be that Bush will pull more bone-headed moves. It may be that the VP choices will have an influence. There’s a lot of time between now and then.
And it may well be that either candidate, should they win, will surprise me by being a lot better (or a lot less bad) than I was afraid they would be; that was true with Bush ’00.
But as things stand, like Totten, I’ll be voting a split ticket in the Fall — Bush for Pres, and Dems for Congress. Not that, in Colorado, it’s likely to make a different overall, but that’s where I’m at right now.
(via ASV)