This is very unusual. . .a liberal who will not vote for Obama.
Tell certain liberals and progressives that you can't bring yourself to
vote for a candidate who opposes gay rights, or who doesn't believe in
Darwinian evolution, and they'll nod along. Say that you'd never vote
for a politician caught using the 'n'-word, even if you agreed with him
on more policy issues than his opponent, and the vast majority of
left-leaning Americans would understand. But these same people cannot
conceive of how anyone can discern Mitt Romney's flaws, which I've
chronicled in the course of the campaign, and still not vote for Obama.
Don't they see that Obama's transgressions are worse than any I've mentioned?
I
don't see how anyone who confronts Obama's record with clear eyes can
enthusiastically support him. I do understand how they might concluded
that he is the lesser of two evils, and back him reluctantly, but I'd
have thought more people on the left would regard a sustained assault on
civil liberties and the ongoing, needless killing of innocent kids as
deal-breakers.
He details his reasons in the column in the Atlantic Monthly.
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