Andrew Sullivan stops just short of declaring for Kerry in tomorrow’s (or more accurately today’s as it’s very early in the morning at the moment) Sunday Times.
At home Bush has done much to destroy the coherence of a conservative philosophy of American government and he has been almost criminally reckless in his conduct of the war. He and America will never live down the intelligence debacle of the missing WMDs. He and America will be hard put to regain the moral high ground after Abu Ghraib.
The argument that Kerry must make is that he can continue the war but without Bush’s polarising recklessness. And at home he must reassure Americans that he is the centrist candidate, controlled neither by the foaming Michael Moore left nor by the vitriolic religious right.
Put all that together and I may not find myself the only conservative moving slowly and reluctantly towards the notion that Kerry may be the right man — and the conservative choice — for a difficult and perilous time.
Commence Conservative mudslinging!
Personally I’m still on the fence, but I’m leaning more the other way purely because I place so much importance on each candidate’s competence in the prosecution of the War on Terrorism. But following Michael Portillo’s article in the Times, there seems to be a portion of the right that’s shifting, albeit begrudgingly towards Kerry.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at July 25, 2004 12:37 AM | TrackBack