An Unusual Endorsement

Thanks to one of our alert readers who pointed this out. The American Conservative Magazine has taken sides, and apparently believes that Senator John Kerry is the candidate for them. This despite saying, "If Kerry wins, this magazine will be in opposition from Inauguration Day forward."

But apparently President Bush has convinced them to support John Kerry.

Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations. The launching of an invasion against a country that posed no threat to the U.S., the doling out of war profits and concessions to politically favored corporations, the financing of the war by ballooning the deficit to be passed on to the nation’s children, the ceaseless drive to cut taxes for those outside the middle class and working poor: it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy. Add to this his nation-breaking immigration proposal—Bush has laid out a mad scheme to import immigrants to fill any job where the wage is so low that an American can’t be found to do it—and you have a presidency that combines imperialist Right and open-borders Left in a uniquely noxious cocktail.

I guess it's something when you manage to turn even the American Conservative against you.