Kerry Haters For Kerry has a classic - My Dinner With Kerry, starring Wallace Shawn. An excerpt:
So, you know, for me it's humiliating to vote for Kerry, because I don't respect him; but I would -- I will -- it's unpleasant, it's like killing a big rat that is running around your apartment. It must be done. But you're not proud of it. But you have to do it.
Check the whole site - morale boosters everywhere.
I wonder how Wallace Shawn would feel about his movie being used like this, being a Bush-Cheney critic and a probable Kerry supporter.
In any event, that was amusing.
Posted by: Brian | October 27, 2004 at 11:10 PM
If you follow their links, you can stop wondering - that was from an interview with Wallace Shawn himself.
Posted by: TM | October 27, 2004 at 11:16 PM
I wonder what Shawn's problem with Kerry is. From what I remember hearing, he's very far to the left, so maybe that's it.
Posted by: Brian | October 27, 2004 at 11:27 PM
I'm not old enough to remember the internal dynamics of "Democrats for Carter/Mondale '80," but the only time I can remember a major party nominee who had this level of support from people who despised him but hated his opponent with blind fury was GHWB in 1992. Which got him 38% of the vote.
Posted by: Crank | October 28, 2004 at 09:35 AM
Back in the 80's I went to a dreadful Wallace Shawn one-man performance which was a tirade about the virtues of the Sandinistas - something about how their ice cream was better than the stuff in El Salvador, or maybe it was worse - anyway, he had some metaphor I didn't get.
So yeah, I guess Kerry is too centrist and pro-war for him.
Posted by: TM | October 28, 2004 at 10:27 AM