Jacob Levy v. George W. Bush

It looks like Jacob Levy will be casting his first vote for a major-party presidential candidate: John Kerry. Why?

[W]e've had no Social Security reform, no push for vouchers, atrocious incompetence and policy made for the wrong reasons on the important foreign policy questions, protectionism, agricultural subsidies, and a spending explosion. All that's left are a) the tax cuts, which are good but something close to meaningless in the absence of spending cuts; b) a general positioning as "hawkish;" and c) annoyance at various elements of the left who I'd rather not be aligned with and certainly don't want to listen to crowing. (I really don't want Michael Moore to spend four years feeling like, and crowing that, he decided a presidential election.) Those aren't sufficient reasons to outweigh the general inability to govern competently or to make good policy judgments.

Levy also has links to various grumblings amongst the President's usually loyal base. It all makes for good reading. I think it is safe to say that this will be one of the most interesting and bizarre election cycles in decades.