November 17, 2004
Where did they stand?
I was curious who Martin Peretz and Lawrence Kaplan voted for. Martin Peretz is the editor and chief of The New Republic and Lawrence Kaplan is a senior editor there. Both wrote strong pieces pointing to Kerry's weaknesses. I figured that Kaplan would vote for Bush. (Kaplan wrote "Bush Voters in Baghdad.") I was right. Here's the proof in "Polls Apart."
The day after the election, a friend--okay, my father--phoned to let me know me he was packing his bags for Australia. The very thought of enduring four more years of George W. Bush was too much for him to contemplate. And so it went last week, as a parade of friends and relatives, knowing full well that I supported Bush, phoned and emailed to deplore the country's ignorance.
And what about Peretz who wrote "Kerry the Clueless?" This is from his post mortem of the election, "Good Riddance":
Still, the extreme and bitter judgments against the citizenry after this election are especially tendentious. For what the electorate did on Nov. 2 was essentially (or maybe just merely) turn down John Kerry, a candidate who until very late in the Democratic primaries was almost no one's choice as the nominee, the party's last option because it could rally around no one else. What a pathetic vessel in which to have placed liberalism's hopes! A senator for two decades who had stood for nothing, really nothing.Is that contempt pre or post election? I'm reasonably certain the former is true and that Peretz voted for President Bush.
The dissent at the New Republic is pretty interesting. I wonder when Kaplan will follow Krauthammer and leave the magazine. Peretz, I'm sure, is there for the long haul. But I guess he'll continue going outside the magazine with is dissents. Posted by SoccerDad at November 17, 2004 06:00 AM | TrackBack