Bluemerle

Weak, wambly, woozy. And not because I'm drunk on lustrous red-lipped optimism. No dancing foods yet, but I have had some difficulty standing and racy-brain incidents; I had the old-movie channel on while I dozed, and Jemmes Mehhson's (James Mason's) voice seemed to chase me around Istanbul. It seemed exceedingly funny at the time, I guess because my husband used to do a ringer impression of Mason and the real thing has a comical surreality to me now.

Dean Esmay's impenetrable fortress won't let me take his pledge
(vua ubstaoundit) lets try that again, shall we? (via instapundit) but you can see from the post below I've given the principle some thought.

The biggest problem for me is not being unable to support a President who isn't Republican, or to accept his head as (try again) him as head of the executive branch.
My core values, as it were, are conservative, in a self-government/founding-fathers/principles of the enlightenment/English common law/Western Civ /Tennessee gentry/Virginia-mother-of-presidents way. Yet I hardly believe statesman-like non-repubican installed as US president would be the end of civilization requiring me to give up America as lost.

In Virginia, you must understand, the Democrats have been frequently as or even more conservative than many Republicans in state government and congress, and voting by party is not as common where I live as it might be elsewhere. I've been independent my entire voting career. It's really been the steady idiotarian shift to the left and appalling trumpery, fakery and unprincipled sophistry of the Democratic party machine and certain candidates it has produced that finally sent me into the big (R)eform school, perhaps for good.

If Kerry were ACTUALLY the Kerry he pretended to be in the not-too-distant past, I should not have lost much sleep over his election. (Though such feeling would be moot, as he would not have been nominated, nor have any chance in hell of winning, if he had not been willing to backstab the Nation for victory). Similarly I would not have cried myself to sleep the night of Lieberman's inauguration.

Quite frankly think John Kerry is unfit to lead. He's a liar, a poser, an opportunist lacking in nearly every moral and intellectual quality I value.So how am I to behave if the country has fallen so low as to deserve and man like that, and to be saddled with him to guide in this dangerous time?


Contemplating the election of such a man is painful to me, I want him exposed and defeated...prior to office.

However, should he be elected to office, I want him to succeed and succeed and succeed with regard to the war on terror. Certain efforts on certain issues, I would definitely be the loyal opposition, but I would never *pretend* opposition to his actions or push to inflate or *invent* scandal because his is a democrat, merely to undermine him and remove him from power.


The convention is creeping me out. More on that later. I need to go lie down.


Update: Powerline gives a minute by minute, America by America account (via tape delay) of John Edwards' speech. These are Americas, buddy.
value added - Round-up of impressions.

My impression - He's part of the surprisingly jittery America.