Shades of Grey

The Times story on 'mixed support' for warrantless wiretapping gets to the heart of things - clearly Kerry was the candidate who reminded Americans too much of themselves.

"Say they're targeting someone in Al Qaeda outside the country, and that person then calls someone in the United States about a plot or something really bad: I don't have a problem with that phone being monitored," Debbie Viebranz, 51, a Republican from Ohio, said in a follow-up interview. "But I don't think they should do it for no reason."

There's also the "I'm probably not the kind of person they're looking for, and, even if they do tap my phone, I haven't done anything wrong," response.

Americans are afraid of the grey, so they support the man who can't pronounce nuance, never mind spell it, and his cronies with their big pails of black and white paint, and hope that the grey goes away.

New Poll Finds Mixed Support for Wiretaps [NYT]