Me too.

Mark Steyn is sick of this election. "These are serious times and the senator is not a serious man."

Granted, but he is serious about winning the election. Not knowing what to do with the presidency once you win it has never been an obstacle before. Clinton came in like he thought being president was like being king. Bush didn't seem very sure of why he wanted to be President back in 2000, but 9/11 changed that. Kerry seems to be motivated more by matters of taste than any real convictions. He wants Bush out because he committed a terrible faux pas by going to war without the U.N.'s blessing. That just isn't done!

As for this Bush-failed-to-get-bin-Laden business, 2-1/2 years ago I declared that Osama was dead and he's never written to complain. There's no more evidence for his present existence than there is for the Loch Ness monster, which at least does us the courtesy of showing up as a indistinct gray blur on a photograph every now and again. Osama is lying low because he's in no condition to get up.

But, even if he weren't, that's a frivolous reductive way of looking at this war. He's not a general or head of state; he can't sign an instrument of surrender, and make all the unpleasantness go away. The enemy is an ideology that appeals to various loose groupings from the Balkans to Indonesia, as well as to entrepreneurial free-lancers like the shooter who killed two people at LAX on July 4, 2002. If Kerry's oft-repeated "outsourcing Osama" crack is genuinely felt, it shows he doesn't get this war. And, if it's just cheapo point scoring, it's pathetic.

His wife sneers at Laura Bush for not being a businesswoman, which is what she really meant with her crack about Laura never having had a job.

And, of course, how tacky is it for Cheney to have a lesbian daughter and still run with George W. Bush?

Pathetic indeed.