Kat at The Middle Ground has some really good stuff up. Like Open letter to Michael Moore and Conversations about the new revolution On the latter, Tonecluster left a priceless comment:
To a rational-liberal, the perfect is the enemy of the good. To an emotional-liberal, a solution without guarantee of perfection is wrong.
Tonecluster's own weblog has The Times of London reluctantly endorsing Bush. I couldn't help chucking at the following:
[W]hat makes four more years of Bush a necessity is the quality of the people who would celebrate a Kerry win[.]"The hordes of the bien-pensant Left in the universities and the media, the sort of liberals who tolerate everything except those who disagree with them. Secularist elites who disdain religiosity except when it comes from Muslim fanatics. Europhile Brits who drip contempt for everything their country has ever done and long for its disappearance into a Greater Europe. Absurd, isolationist conservatives in America and Britain who think the struggles for freedom are always someone else's fight. Hollywood sybarites and narcissists, self-appointed arbiters of a nation's morals.
"Soft-headed Europeans who think engagement and dialogue with mass murderers is the way to achieve lasting peace. French intellectuals for whom nothing has gone right in the world since 1789.
"The United Nations, which, if it had its multilateral way, would still be faithfully minding a world in which half the population lived under or in fear of Soviet aggression. Most of Belgium. [LOL! FB]
"Above all, of course, Middle Eastern militants. If your bitterest enemies are the sort of people who hack the heads off unarmed, innocent civilians, then I would say you are probably doing something right.
"This may sound petty. It is not. This constellation of individuals, parties and institutions has very little in common other than the fact that it has contrived to be wrong on just about every important issue of my adult lifetime."
If only I could log into TypePad again (am remote-posting from Ecto as I have since the moment I discovered it) I could update my blogroll again ;-)
thanks for the link!
Kat's been on a roll... I'm honored to be associated with her blog post
Posted by: tonecluster | October 31, 2004 at 10:12 PM