Saturday, October 30, 2004
(10:57 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
The bin Laden tape
To me, the existence of this tape and the promised scouring of it for "actionable intelligence" seems to indicate that the nightmare October Surprise situation of unveiling a dead-or-alive bin Laden days before the election is not going to come to pass.I have no basis for an opinion about whether the tape will help or hurt Bush, Kerry, or Nader.
INSTANT UPDATE: Some canvassers came to my door looking for Elliot Johnson, who used to live in my current house and who, judging by the mail we get for him every fucking day, is among Alan Keyes' 200 supporters. When they found out I wasn't him, they asked me whether they could count on my vote for the Republican candidate, and I told them, "I would sooner die than vote Republican." I'm sure they're going to go back to the HQ and say, "Man, we ran into one of those angry liberals today!"