It's time

Kerry will be the nominee. He may not be your first choice. He wasn’t mine. But he now affords our nation its best—its only—chance to step back from the brink of financial ruin and amoral imperialism. The time for nitpicking and toe sucking is over.

Bush’s quarter-billion-dollar disinformation campaign begins tomorrow. His informal smear, slime, and lie campaign began long ago. This is likely to be the nastiest election in memory. Bush is willing to say or do anything to win. He has more money than God. The press is not on our side; apparently, they think that giving long-winded speeches, looking like Lurch, and eating sandwiches like Miss Daisy are all probative of unfitness for office, while squandering the nation’s future to buy tax cuts for your rich pals while sending our soldiers to die in the sand for nothing are minor flaws easily offset by a pleasant demeanor and the flinging about of nicknames.

Nonetheless, this is a fight that we can win. But don’t think that it will be enough if you just show up in November.

Find your wallet. Give the man some money. Then do it again next month. Think of it as buying yourself a country you don’t have to be ashamed of on the installment plan.

Filed under: politics/2004