Excellent G-File

Lots of great lines and interesting thoughts. The money section is at the end:

...a vote for Kerry — despite what Kerry says, and despite what some of his supporters claim — is not a vote for "the better, more effective war on terror" he promises. It is a vote for the candidate who says he will provide a "better, more effective war on terror" because that is what he needs to say to win. If Bush is turned-out, for every Andrew Sullivan there will be a hundred Helen Thomases to tell us the election was a rejection of the entire Bush project. That is how Europe will read it. That's how the United Nations will read it. That is how the New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the entire chattering class will read it. And, given Kerry's tendency to do what the chattering classes think is wisest at the moment — including his pick of a vice president who was supposed to deliver the south — I fear that is how John Kerry would read it.

I agree.