Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Novelists vote for Prez
Slate asks a group of 31 prominent American novelists who they plan to vote for in the elections. The group includes everyone from Amy Tan to Jonathan Franzen to Orson Scott Card. Predictably, Kerry gets 24 clear votes (plus a few more from the slant of their answers) while Bush actually wins 3 votes. Those voting for Bush include Roger L. Simon, Robert Ferrigno and, believe it or not, Orson Scott Card. Both Simon and Card are registered Democrats voting for Bush. Here's Card's reason....
I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican positions. But we're at war, and electing a president who is committed to losing it seems to be the most foolish thing we could do. Personal honesty is also important to me, and Kerry is obviously not in the running on that point, given that he can't keep track of the facts in his own autobiography.
Somehow I had expected Card would have realised by now which of the two candidates had a problem with honesty (several leading newspapers and blogs have dwelled at length about this). And Kerry is committed to losing? Quite dissapointing, really.
I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican positions. But we're at war, and electing a president who is committed to losing it seems to be the most foolish thing we could do. Personal honesty is also important to me, and Kerry is obviously not in the running on that point, given that he can't keep track of the facts in his own autobiography.
Somehow I had expected Card would have realised by now which of the two candidates had a problem with honesty (several leading newspapers and blogs have dwelled at length about this). And Kerry is committed to losing? Quite dissapointing, really.
