Am I the only person who is sick to death of this election? I have been sick of it for a long time, and I am dead tired of writing about Kerry this, Kerry that. Yet now, after the latest debate, I feel obligated to write about Kerry. Or else not write at all. It's Kerry or nothing!

The problem -- and my bigger worry -- is that if Kerry is elected, then I'll be writing about him for the next four years, and that would be worse. Kerry has yet to repudiate his far-left, anti-American legacy, and frankly I think he's proud of it. Bush won't call him on it either. So it just festers away, leaving critics to nitpick away at more petty things like flu shots, as if that's what people are thinking about.

The other problem is that there's nothing I can say which hasn't been said by others -- and repeatedly. It's boring the hell out of everyone, and it's as if I have no choice anymore about topics.

When this happens I feel forced to return to the theme of this blog: Classical Values. How might an ancient Roman, hypothetically pulled out of a cryogenic storage vault, react to all of this? I think it's quite obvious: those guys were very prowar and didn't take kindly to any sort of attack on Rome. Kerry, had he been a Roman citizen unfortunate enough to have been caught negotiating with the enemy, would have been put to death for his turncoat behavior. Of course I'm not advocating anything like that, but people are already circulating petitions -- like this -- demanding that Kerry be prosecuted for treason. If he is elected, I'd be willing to bet that the resultant Kerry Hate Machine would dwarf anything ever done by the anti-Clinton forces. There is, after all, a huge difference between dodging the draft and meeting with the enemy while accusing your fellow soldiers of war crimes and gruesome atrocities worthy of Ghenghis Khan. The revived Roman might be astounded that a man like Kerry would get the nomination of a major political party. (I'd be astounded myself if I didn't know how thoroughly the radical left has insinuated itself into the machinery of this once-mainstream party.)

This is not to say I am a gung-ho fan of Bush. Come to think of it, I've never endorsed him, and there's no Blogs4Bush logo here. My thinking right now is more on the level of Anyone But Kerry. Well, almost; I'd vote for Kerry over Michael Moore.

Realizing that I don't want four more years of daily anti-Kerry blogging, I am not foolish enough to imagine that reelecting Bush would end acrimony in this country. Incivility in American politics is now institutionalized, and the Hate Bush forces are gearing up for all out war. I worry that Bush will be impeached in his second term, because the Bush haters are motivated by a need to avenge Clinton's impeachment.

So my prediction is no matter who wins, things will probably get nastier.

Hope I am wrong, as usual.