Another one who won’t vote
Anne Applebaum’s reasoning is like mine: the “rapidly deteriorating, increasingly anti-intellectual, no longer even recognizably conservative Republican Party.”
…if [McCain's independent] traits appealed to me, I’m guessing they would have appealed to other independents, too. Why, then, has McCain spent the last four months running away from them? The appointment of Sarah Palin—inspired by his closest colleagues—turned out not to be a “maverick” move but, rather, a concession to those Republicans who think foreign policy can be conducted using a series of clichés and those in his party who shout down the federal government while quietly raking in federal subsidies.
