American Conservative denounces Bush: "This election is all about George W. Bush, and those issues are enough to render him unworthy of any conservative support," writes The American Conservative in a biting "condorsement" of the president. No fan of Kerry either ("If he were to win, his dearth of charisma would likely ensure him a single term."), the magazine editorializes:

If Kerry wins, this magazine will be in opposition from Inauguration Day forward. But the most important battles will take place within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. A Bush defeat will ignite a huge soul-searching within the rank-and-file of Republicandom: a quest to find out how and where the Bush presidency went wrong. And it is then that more traditional conservatives will have an audience to argue for a conservatism informed by the lessons of history, based in prudence and a sense of continuity with the American past - and to make that case without a powerful White House pulling in the opposite direction.