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October 27, 2004

Coming Soon... The Coveted Ace of Spades HQ Endorsement For President

As most of you know, I have been, like Andrew Sullivan, a confirmed "independent eagle" on the question of who should be the next President. Much like my guiding muse Mr. Sullivan, I have been posed on the knife's edge between endorsing Bush, endorsing Kerry, or not endorsing any candidate at all.

Yes, it's a three-edged knife. That's how complicated my decision has been. Don't nit-pick, dick.

I have watched with great fascination at Andrew Sullivan's difficult wrestling with this key question. It's been so difficult to divine precisely where he'd come down on the issue; and so it has been too, for me. Yes, I did give an interview to Al Goldstein's Screw magazine in which I said I could never, ever support John Kerry as a heterosexual man who retains full use of his balls and spine; but that was for a different audience. You musn't take that as some sort of early judgment on the issue.

I have been straight with you. I said I was undecided, and I remain undecided. I'm "undecided" in the sense that I haven't yet announced my decision. Sort of like Oliver Willis just before he gets to the order-taker at McDonald's.

And, like Andrew Sullivan, my independent-minded, non-partisan struggle with the issue has caused me to lose some of my more knee-jerkedly partisan readers. The Batman, for example. (If that is his real name.)

Yes, The Batman still occasionally shows up to taunt me in my moment of doubt, but does he ever give me a "You go girl" or even a "Ohhh, snap! No you didn't!" ? Well, let me assure you, he does not. And it stings.

As a straight man living in New York City, my occasional defenses of President Bush have caused me a great deal of heart-ache in the social circles I run in. Just the other day I was out with the girls for a mani-pedi, and just as I was having my callouses buffed, I accidentally said, "Is it just me, or does Karen Hughes seem to have a pretty nice rack on her?" Well, I was just about ostracized from the group entirely; somehow my invite to Sandy's The O.C. season-debut viewing party went "missing."

Missing? Or just vindictively sent to Joanie instead, who thinks she's all that, but she ain'?

But all this Hamlet-like vacillation on the issue must come to an end, I fear.

I don't want to give away my decision, but look, if you're a John Kerry supporter who just comes here for the discussions about Billy Squire and Streets of Fire, maybe you ought to send in your donation now, rather than just putting it off until tomorrow.

Oh, not for any reason. It's just that you don't want to be a Procrastinating Paula, right? No one likes that.

Also, if George Soros is about to offer me some cash to pimp for the liberal Senator from Massachusetts engage in some spirited analysis that contributes to a return to American greatness, maybe we ought to get those contracts signed quick, huh?

At any rate, it's time for me, like the brave Andrew Sullivan, to make my own courageous and utterly unpredictable endorsement. I hope you will understand the gutsy choice I find myself forced to make.

Update: I think Mrs. Jeff Goldstein has the right attitude on Mr. Sullivan.

Then again, maybe not. I can't make up my mind. What is a Guiliani-Schwarzenegger-McCain-Peter Allen independent eagle to think of all this?

Questions, questions.


posted by Ace at 01:33 AM
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Ace--

I question your timing.

BTW, permit me the opportunity to use your esteemed web publication to announce my endorsement for President, 2004:

Mr. Matt Hooker.

http://www.matthooker.com/

Not only is he just the kind of insanity we need, his brand of pure leftist/Venusian insanity skips straight to the punch. No need to take that watered-down corporatist rhetoric of Ralph Nader.

Besides, the best thing about Matt Hooker? HE STALKED NICOLE KIDMAN.

Oh, he says he didn't stalk her, of course. He says it's all a Zionist plot by the Jewish lobby.

I am not making this up.

But hey, there was a nice tidy court case a few years back, and he's been milking the free publicity ever since.

I think it's time we voted Matt Hooker for President.

Or hell, how about T.J. Hooker? Or Matt Houston?

Man, I miss Lee Horsley. . . he was a hunk of burning love.

Cheers,
Dave

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on October 27, 2004 02:09 AM

Smart ass. BTW, I know you're on the Kim Richards kick, but Nicole Kidman is the ultimate female specimen. My wife doesn't even give me shit when I say that because it's so true. I just mentioned it to her again tonight when we saw an ad for her new movie in which she has very short hair. This (the haircut) is a goddamn crime against humanity and John Kerry should pay for it on Nov 2.

Posted by: Dear Johns on October 27, 2004 02:29 AM

Hey Johns, I take it you didn't see poor Kidman in "The Stepford Wives." Her recent, obvious cosmetic surgery had the skin around her eyes pulled so tightly behind her head that she looked positively Asian. As for the body type, IMO I think the waifish, emaciated look is only preferable when you have to sit next to someone in Coach. And evidently, unless you're a complete weenie like Tom Cruise -- and I don't think any person who reads this blog could possibly be -- your chances of attracting her attention just aren't very good.

But I'm a chick, so what do I know? Heh, I know enough to say that Catherine Zeta-Jones is HOT even tho her taste in men stinks, too.

Posted by: bbeck on October 27, 2004 10:00 AM

Meow.

Seriously, no , I didn't see Stepford Wives. But I thought the whole point to that movie involved producing an improved version of wives. One of the reasons I didn't go see it was that the notion of producing an improved version of Kidman was silly. I can't image what they needed to do to make her look plain or sub-perfect.

Zeta-Jones is beautiful but Selma Hayek is far better. Anyway, I'm a slave to the beauty of Celtic and Nordic women, both in visage and temperment. They're like living fire. It's genetic for me. Maureen O'Hara is the model. Kidman broke it. Boy, I miss the young Teri Garr.

Posted by: Dear Johns on October 27, 2004 06:25 PM

Aren't you about eight months late pimping your endorsement? Say what you will about Andrew Sullivan, but the man knows the tease! He plays the slatternly coquette better than Elizabeth Beridge in "Amadeus"

Posted by: Jimmie on October 27, 2004 07:39 PM
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