August 09, 2004
Someone explain this to me.
I am somebody that has voted Third Party every time I've had the opportunity to vote in a presidential election. That means I voted for Perot in '96 and for Nader in '00. I had my reasons for both of those votes. The Perot one was because my parents had liked Perot in 1992 but didn't vote for him because it was a 'wasted vote' and this had deeply scarred idealistic, 15-year old me. The 19-year old me who actually voted for him owed it to my younger self. Then, in 2000, there was no shot that Bush was going to win NY. I realize the irony of my parents not voting for Perot because he couldn't win and my not voting for Bush because he couldn't win NY. I didn't have any deep affection for him anyway, in fact I felt that I knew hardly anything about him despite being a political junkie and following the election pretty closely. To be fair, I didn't have a television and I didn't use the internet nearly as much as I do now. I was also rooting for Nader to get the 5% and be a nuisance to the Democrats for at least four more years.
Anyway, I tell this whole story because I do not understand how Mickey Kaus can so violently despise Kerry, see him as a hypocrite and a fraud and still plan on voting for him in November. I can kind of understand those people who seethe with hatred for Bush and will vote for an incontinent donkey before him but Kaus doesn't seem to have that deep rooted loathing. Read today's column for some pretty sharp attacks on Kerry. He seems to like Bush a helluva lot more than his guy. And if he doesn't like Bush as much as it seems then why not vote Third Party? I would.
Posted by Karol at August 9, 2004 11:05 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags:
Maybe Mickey Kaus has to say he is voting for Kerry or he will lose his job.
Posted by: Jake at August 9, 2004 11:21 PMFeh. My comment got too damn long.
Speaking of Third Parties...
Posted by: Oschisms at August 10, 2004 01:06 AMKaus, for some reason, is a liberal whose writing focuses almost exclusively on bashing other liberals. For all we know, he hates Bush even more than he hates Kerry, he just chooses not to write about it, probably because it's not as fun.
Posted by: Stephen Silver at August 10, 2004 09:18 AMI have wondered the exact same thing. I don't even know what his Democrat credentials are - he seems to agree with Bush on every issue.
Posted by: Yaron at August 10, 2004 01:36 PM
