Why I'm voting for Bush (but only just)

http://observer.guardian.co.uk ^ | Sunday October 31, 2004 | Christopher Hitchens

[BCrago66]

Hitchens to The Nation: I'm Voting for Bush. Hitchen to Slate: I'm For Kerry. Hitchens to The Observer: I'm For Bush.

[MarkeyD]

Flip Flopper. Must be a Kerry supporter.

[ottothedog]

Can he vote? I thought he's a limey?!

[sarasotarepublican]

Hitches to Timmy Russert, I support Bush.

[WHBates]

I don't think he can remember what he is doing from one day to the next. Age is a terrible thing. LOL

[Phocion]

His Slate endorsement of Kerry was tongue-in-cheek. At least that's the impression I got from it.

[My2Cents]

Slate probably wouldn't have published Hitchens' article unless he "endorsed" Kerry.

[BCrago66]

Actually I think this is almost a word for word recycle of his editorial in The Nation. Hop the pond, double the commission.

[solo gringo]

I am voting for Bush he is a great leader he is an American for America.Kerry is an agent for a foreign government and if elected would be the first communist president.

[snarks_when_bored]

Hitchens writes this: "The President, notwithstanding his shortcomings of intellect, ...".

This from a man who, for most of his adult life, has been guided by the wit, wisdom and insights of Karl Marx. Please! Let's not confuse linguistic cleverness and knowledge of discredited or obscure authors with intellect.

[zarf]

I could take refuge in saying that I was a Blair supporter rather than a Bush endorser, and I am a member of a small international regime-change left[-wing] that originates in solidarity with our embattled brothers and sisters in Afghanistan and Iraq, who have received zero support from the American 'anti-war' movement. I won't even consider any reconsideration, at least until Islamist websites start posting items that ask themselves, and not us: can we go on taking such casualties? Have our tactics been too hideous and stupid? Only then can anything like a negotiation begin.

Bush, the idealist, finds a friend in Hitch.

[ottothedog]

I think that it's the alcohol, not his age. Anytime I have seen him on TV he looks hungover.

[WHBates]

LOL, maybe

[Mac017]

Christopher Hitchens has consistently said he would vote Bush, on the basis that he will prosecute the war on terror more aggressively than Kerry.

[My2Cents]

Christopher Hitchens has consistently said he would vote Bush, on the basis that he will prosecute the war on terror more aggressively than Kerry.

I wonder by what factor that sentiment will be multiplied on election day by other Democrat-types who simply come to the conclusion that regardless of what they perceive about the economy or health care or whatever, the war on terror trumps everything else at this point in history.

[CFC__VRWC]

Age is a terrible thing. LOL

So is a brain pickled by a life time of pounding the sauce.

[conservativecorner]

I don't care if it's barely the ass hair of a mouse that makes him give the nod to President Bush. Everything else is just filler of pomp and circumstance for the readers.

[BCrago66]

I read that Hitch started the naturalization process; looks like he completed it in time for the election.

[wildcatf4f3]

Yes but Hitchens endorcement slices deep into the Left. Its a very good thing.

[wildcatf4f3]

Once you're a pickle you can never be a cucumber again



Find out what he drinks and send a case to all my leftist friends.



Or rather, used to be friends.