Hitchens has also vacillated between being Jewish and not so. Loving France, and not so...

Hmm... who does Chris Kerry, I mean, Hitchens, remind me of again??

I don't know what Hitchens drank before writing that Kerry endorsement, but I want some!

Endorsed Bush? Not really. Hitch has been hyping Bush's attack on 'islamofascism' for years. He loves this war.

That he now thinks little enough of Bush to support a candidate that he hates says a lot about how much Kool-aid you have to have swallowed to still favor Bush's conduct of the war.

ummm, ugarte - did you read his endorsement from last week entitled "Why I'm (Slightly) for Bush" - is he voting for kerry but endorsing bush? I doubt he's that silly - I am surprised nothing's been posted on slate about it yet..

I don't know that the Nation essay was really an endorsement for the job of the Presidency. More like an answer to the question "who do I think understands the evil we are facing more." Oddly enough, his positions in Slate and the Nation sort of reconcile.

Hitchens thinks that Bush says all the right things, but is incompetent to carry them out. As much as he thinks Kerry is missing something, he figures the reality of the Presidency will make him finish the job correctly, without the burden of having to admit his own mistakes.

Hitchens, as always, is fucking insane.

Hitch is bitter that Michael Moore gets more attention than he does. Once the election anxiety is over, I'm sure he'll feel better.

Is Hitchens even allowed to vote? I thought I saw somewhere he's a British citizen.

Yep Hitch is in favor of a perpetual war for social revolution. He worships the same golden calf that so many of the elder neocons did before they were mugged by reality and some have never renounced:

Comrade Leon Trotsky.

Take a look at Hitch's paen to Trotsky in the July/August issue of the Atlantic. Why any American, let alone a conservative one, would take someone who praises Trotsky while trashing Mother Theresa seriously is beyond me.

Hey Ivan. I think you need to invite him to join Communists for Kerry.

I can't find the Atlantic article, Von Beck. The reason some right-wingers like Hitch is because they hope he will convert them some lefties. And he has helped convert people like me, who are liberal on some issues, but want to preserve Western civ., and want to fight the jihadis.

Leon and Hitch do have things in common: an outstanding intellect, and narcissism.

Being from Russia, I kinda understand why people in the West like Trotsky - he was an outcast, and he risked his life for what he believed (he killed a lot, too, but such things are not quite important if you're an intellectual) People who have actual physical experiences, make intellectuals salivate, so they romantisize people like Trotsky, who seem like heroes to them. What they forget is
a.He was NO LESS a murderous animal than komrade Stalin - he was responsible for huuuuge massacres during the Civil War in Russia, and
b.unlike Stalin, he was a pompous loser. All he had going for himself was cheezy theatrics, conveying some charisma of a genius.

Hitch feeds on controversy, while pretending to be a deep philosopher. And people go, "He might be full of shit, but he is SO eloquent!" We don't need folks like that in our glorious Party.

Finally, I think Irving Kristol's intellectual evolution is more genuine, more interesting, and has had more consequences, than that of Hitch.

Good lord, is there anyone on your side that you won't completely character assasinate for designing to endorse John Kerry?

I don't know about Karol, but I'm not gonna character assasinate Robert George who wroe his "Why I can't vote for Bush" in the New Republic feature article. He presented the best case against Bush I've read, and while I disagree with his argument, I don't see it as moonbattery. Which I can't say about pretty much any other Kerry endorsement ;)

I thought the TNR endorsement is one of the best I've seen on either side (then again, I may just be saying that because it was an extremely well-written articulation of most of my views...)

Anyone have a link to the Robert George TNR article? I can't find it on the front page of the site (where I expected it to be obvious). Does it require registration or subscription?