Reasons to Vote Against Kerry.

I'm going to try to keep a running list for the next two-and-a-half weeks, because it's very hard to keep all of the reasons in my head at once, and because new reasons keep emerging.

1. Don't vote for Kerry because Charles Krauthammer, a doctor and a paraplegic, and Bill Frist, a world-renowned heart surgeon, are a lot smarter than John Edwards, an ambulance-chasing plaintiffs' med-mal lawyer, about the prospects or lack thereof of miraculous cures of Alzheimer's, paralysis, and other intractable neurological ailments. Edwards' Christopher Reeve quote was shameful demogoguery. Chris Reeve wouldn't have gotten up and walked in 2005, not in 2006, not in 2050. It isn't going to happen. Medicine is wonderful, but, in terms of scientific complexity, open-heart surgery is to regenerating neural connections like plumbing is to silicon chips.

2. Don't vote for Kerry because outing Mary Cheney on national TV was despicable gay-baiting designed to appeal to bigots but, more importantly, because Kerry is so out-of-touch that he thinks that there are a substantial number of Catholics and Evangelicals who could be swayed by it. There aren't.

3. Don't vote for Kerry because he keeps hinting ominously that there will be a draft if Bush if re-elected. There won't be. The military doesn't want it, the President doesn't want it, Republicans don't want it, and you don't want it. This, again, is sheer demogoguery.

I'll be back with more.