"Bird-Dogging the Bush Vote"

I haven 't been much on politics lately, but "Bird-Dogging the Bush Vote," a piece in a recent Harper's Monthly, has grabbed me and it's worth digging up at your neighborhood library (since Harper's hasn't made it available online). It's good literary journalism by a liberal who volunteered for the GOP in Florida last fall. The writer, Wells Tower, is a wizard with the adjectives, but he's a master of the choice quote, too. It's hard to pick one good utterance of the Republicans with whom Tower interacted, but this one seems to sum up Decision 2004 better than any set of exit polling data: "We just have some blinded, blinded people in this country. I'm just concerned that if we lose, our country is going to be run by evil."

I hadn't noticed the evil plank in the Democratic platform, but by golly I'd have voted twice if I had.