Sure, I'm voting for Bush for the usual reasons: That he puts more weight on defeating global terrorism than on passing the "global test." That he is a man of conviction not calculation. That he doesn't speak a word of French.
 
But I have more personal reasons as well. Here's my top ten:
 
10: Michael Moore, who cheers for terrorists —— I mean, "Minutemen" —— in Iraq, and who dedicated a book to terror enabler Rachel Corrie. Among his disciples, who reveal themselves by adopting his talking points, are John Kerry and Osama bin Laden.
 
9: George Soros, the billionaire financier of far—left organizations like Moveon.org, so bent on single—handedly ending the Bush presidency that he has donated over $15 million toward that end. Soros fails to understand —— or doesn't care —— that democracy means everyone's voice counts, not that the will of others can be nullified with sufficient cash. 
 
8: Soros wannabe, B—list actor Matt Damon, who recently confessed to his own fantasy of eliminating the voting input of other Americans by buying the election. "I would pay $1 million to have Kerry in the White House," he told a crowd in Germany. (My own fantasy: I pay a million to have Damon permanently disappear from every movie screen and video store in America.)
 
7: Dan Rather and CBS, who made their own effort to hijack the election using fabricated documents to denigrate President Bush —— an appalling attempt at anti—democracy by trickery. As if all is nonetheless right with the world, Rather will be there, reporting away, on November 2.
 
6: Pundit and law professor Susan Estrich, who, disregarding her law school ethics lessons, advised Democrats to prevaricate like hell because "lies move numbers." Like Soros and Rather, Estrich apparently has little regard for democracy, which requires an informed, not deceived, population. John "Bush—will—draft—you—all" Kerry heard her loud and clear.
 
5: Garrison Keillor, a perfect representative of all who dwell in the delusional September 10 universe, who actually believes we're "in a war against a small country that was undertaken for the president's personal satisfaction." For Keillor, September 11 wasn't "a turning point in our history, or a cosmic occurrence, it was an event, a lapse of security." Or, as John Kerry would put it, a "nuisance."
 
4: Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill, who reduced Dick Cheney's daughter Mary to 'fair game.'
 
3: A tie between Kerry's wife who, with all the class one expects from a would—be First Lady, told a reporter in Boston to "shove it"; and his stepson Chris, 31, who recently spoke for anti—Semites everywhere when he lamented that America treats Israel "as the 51st state."
 
2: John Kerry who, despite all his war—hero, goose—killing bravado, lacks the courage to reveal openly and plainly where he stands —— on anything.
 
1: Two words: Jimmy Carter.

Steven Zak is an attorney and writer in California