NEGATIVE

I think we've had too much negativism in US politics in recent years. First there were the Clinton-haters in the 1990s. Now the Bush-haters are as bad or worse. It would be nice, if Kerry wins, to be noble and try to be more positive.

But I'm afraid that wouldn't be impossible. To talk about Kerry is to say something negative. Kerry just doesn't have any positive traits to talk about. He's a cross between Nixon-- humorless, paranoid, bitter, ruthlessly ambitious, uncaring about freedom-- and and Carter-- weak, vacillating, electable only because of who he is not, riding untenable campaign promises. No one on the left admires him.

Glenn Reynolds' predictions for a Kerry presidency, though unappetizing, are not nearly pessimistic enough.