Folks who read the content here may have picked up on a certain level of discontent with the President. That's not surprising; I'm not entirely pleased with the course of the Bush Administration, and I don't give him a war-based pass on everything.

Does that mean that this blog backs Kerry? Nuh uh. Our version of Merv isn't worth John Nance Garner's warm bucket of spit, and I won't be voting for him. I once snarled at a Deaniac that my mind had been made up in late December 2000¹, and I've quipped words to that effect here as well.

With all that out of the way, I ran across a column by Will Saletan of Slate, the MSN effort at a webzine. Entitled "Confidence Man", its tagline is that the case for George Bush is the case against Bush as well.

Will Saletan's no stranger to "Orange is actually purple" arguments; I saw him on C-SPAN once hawking a book that said the pro-life conservatives had actually won the abortion debate and please stop complaining. Or something; I listened for fifteen minutes and was starting to wonder if I'd slipped into Animal Farm or something. Between the overly-eager host and Saletan's herky-jerky speech, I got lost and I don't think I got his point. That is, if he had one.

The entire Slate article is worth reading, if nothing else for amusement. Without going too deep into it, I'll say that I came away more willing to vote for the President, since I figure that the Merovingian won't do any better. Thanks Will Saletan! The Republican National Committee thanks you.

UPDATE: I visited Saletan's site for the book and it's pro-abortion conservatives that he says have won the war over abortion in this country. Well, whatever.

¹ Remember, had George W. Bush lost at the USSC, we might've had a different nominee in 2004.

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