Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for
John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the
media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about
bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to
Barack Obama before they're left out in the cold without a
single state dinner for the next four years.
I stand athwart the rush of conservative
ship-jumpers of every stripe -- neo (Ken
Adelman), moderate (Colin
Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher
Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher
Hitchens) -- yelling "Stop!" I shall have no part of this motley
crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I'd rather lose an
election than lose my bearings. Read More...
Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have
been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not
things. Not ideas. Not institutions. But himself.
Nothing wrong or even terribly odd about that, except that he
is laying claim to the job of crafting the coming history of the
United States. A leap of such audacity is odd. The air of unease at
the
Democratic convention this week was not just a result of the
Clinton psychodrama. The deeper anxiety was that the party was
nominating a man of many gifts but precious few accomplishments --
bearing even fewer witnesses.
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