Out of the Bush closet.(Viewpoint)

Crain's New York Business, August, 2004 by David, Greg

Byline: Greg David I am one of only 400,000 New Yorkers who voted for George Bush last time. The exclusivity of this group is hard to exaggerate. It represents 22% of the voters in the city-about the percentage of people who smoke. Come to think of it, I feel like a smoker, looked down upon and shunted aside for the health of everyone else.

I confessed my sin to my teenage daughter only recently. She has been vocal for a long time that she didn't think Bush was smart enough to be president and that the war in Iraq was morally wrong. She's only 16, and I take her views with a grain of salt. Yet almost everyone I meet is as incredulous at my act as she is. No one should be surprised that my journalistic colleagues don't agree with me. Although they deny...

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