It’s still a tough call

The polls are all over the place, and even though I am cautiously optimistic (what can I do?), in these last few days of election numbers still look pretty precarious.

The folks at The Weekly Standard are mostly calling for a Bush win, but a few are calling for Kerry. Notable among the pessimists is Stephen Hayes, whose book The Connection documenting the links between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein has by and large been ignored by the MSM (yawn).

Mark Steyn, on the other hand, puts his job (does he have one?) on the line, predicting a Bush win. His argument pretty much rests on the rationality of the voters, but one can only hope that the voters are in fact rational. The fact that, for example, Ohio’s voters may not go for Bush (ostensibly because of the economy) shows that not all voters are informed or concerned about the most grave issue of the day (and of many years to come)—Western civilization’s survival. If we perish because we capitulated to the Islamofascists, every other issue is moot.