Comments on the 2008 Kerry Campaign...
(It's already finished.)
Updated 1/26/2007:
Kerry has given it up for this time (he says). Perhaps he'll consider running for president
in 2012. I sure hope so. His nomination in 2004 showed us a lot about the Democratic
Party as a whole.
Kerry
won't run for president in '08. An emotional Senator John F. Kerry today [1/24/2007] said
he will not run in the 2008 presidential race and vowed to use his Senate perch to hasten an end to the war in
Iraq, saying he would work with lawmakers from both parties to reverse President Bush's troop "surge" and
force him to withdraw virtually all troops from Iraq by early next year.
Kerry
will stay out of race for president. Sen. John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who narrowly
lost the presidency to George Bush in 2004, stepped away Wednesday [1/24/2007] from what he had described as
an almost all-but-certain second bid for the White House, bowing to a Democratic Party that was clearly
unreceptive to his return to the stage and that had turned its attention to new candidates.
John
Kerry, Unplugged. Now that Sen. John Kerry won't be running for president again, he can say what
he thinks — which turns out to be exactly the kind of radical loathing of America his critics in
2004 accused him of practicing all his life. Speaking to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,
last weekend, the Massachusetts Democrat who came a handful of electoral votes away from winning the presidency
last time around referred to the U.S. as an "international pariah."
Kerry
Will Go Down "Swinging" in Round Two. Nothing will come of John Kerry's belated and
limp counterpunching of the Swiftboat ads. And here is why...
This is now outdated, but still informative:
Kerry
takes another look at the presidency. As Senator John F. Kerry prepared
to make a return to presidential-style politics with a classic day of New Hampshire campaigning,
he said that the 2004 run left him tougher and more eager to fight.
The biggest loser: Kerry
canned in poll. The first thing people say when they hear "John Kerry for president in 2008" is
not exactly a rallying cry for the Bay State senator, a new poll shows. … Kerry, who fared far worse
than other Democratic White House wannabes Sens. Hilary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.),
apparently has taken a public-opinion beating for his flubbed "stuck in Iraq" joke and the stinging Swift Boat
campaign against him in 2004, since many of those polled described him as a poor speaker and disloyal traitor.
Does Sen. John Kerry Deserve a Second
Chance? Senator John Kerry says he deserves a second chance. This is not a honky-tonk song
about a guy who has done his girl wrong and wants another chance. Kerry is talking about another chance
running for president. When I saw the comment, I thought, he must be the only person in America thinking
that. Is that what Democrats anxious to regain power are talking about? I don't think so.
John
Kerry's consistent inconsistencies: If I hadn't observed Sen. Kerry's incoherent ramblings during
the 2004 presidential campaign, I would have been shocked by his indecipherable utterances on "Fox News Sunday"
regarding President Bush's foreign policy. Almost every statement was at war with the facts or with other
statements he made elsewhere and in this same interview.
Kerry Insults
Troops. One the same day it was reported that Democrat Congressman Charles Rangel called the Vice
President an obscene name, news followed that Sen. John Kerry (D.-Mass.) suggested American military troops
were comprised of dim-witted underachievers. Kerry said at a campaign event yesterday at Pasadena City
College, "You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an
effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Kerry's
war: Well, I for one shall delight in reviewing the Swifties' corpus delicti once again.
There are his Purple Hearts that his officers deny authorizing. There are the missing medical records
needed to substantiate his decorations. There are the questions the Swifties raised about his honorable
discharge, a mysterious discharge not issued until several years after he was out of the Navy and then only
issued by President Jimmy Carter in the midst of his amnesty program for draft dodgers. And there is
all the controversy about young Kerry's dealings with the North Vietnamese in Paris while the war was going
on and he was still in the service.
Kerry the Censor. Senator John Kerry,
the defeated 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate, is sounding like a candidate again. But his recent
spouting off about Iraq has served to divert attention from accusations that could sink any future
presidential run.
John Kerry's
tangled webs: Sen. Kerry has been trying to make himself a part of the news other than as a
failed presidential candidate ever since he became a failed presidential candidate. He has been
sending group e-mails almost daily since his defeat, on every imaginable political subject.
John Kerry: Give Iran
Nuke Fuel. During his first debate against President Bush on Sept. 30, 2004, the
Massachusetts Democrat actually said it would be a good idea for the U.S. to give Iran the fuel
they needed to make a nuclear bomb.
Kerry should make
up for his 'mistake'. John Kerry has joined John Murtha and other Democrats in saying he erred
in voting for the liberation of Iraq. … If the junior senator from Massachusetts truly believes that
his judgment was so clouded that he sent thousands of American men and women to their deaths needlessly, then
he should do the honorable thing and resign from Congress.
Bravo for Bolton.
Perhaps the best reason to support John Bolton's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is that
his approach to foreign policy is radically different from John Kerry's, as shown by their exchange during
Mr. Bolton's confirmation hearings. It is a shame anyone missed this delicious slap-down.
On
Iraq, Kerry Again Leaves Democrats Fuming. They fear the latest evolution of Mr. Kerry's
views on Iraq may now complicate their hopes of taking back a majority in Congress in 2006.
Recipe for
disaster: Sen. John Kerry insists on proving that he can't be trusted. … In a
600-word screed published this week by the New York Times, Kerry lays out his vision for the
future. Unfortunately, like so much else in the Massachusetts liberal's political life,
it is full of flim-flam, half-truths, distortions and outright falsehoods.
John Kerry's
Skimmer Scam: The mission was a bust. No enemy action, not even the sighting of enemy,
with rookie Kerry claiming he had been wounded in the arm and demanding his purple heart. … Kerry
reported to Navy doctor Louis Letson the next morning after duty hours began at 8 AM. Schachte had
told him, "No enemy action, no purple heart." Kerry's appeal to Hibbard brought the rejoinder "I have
seen rose thorn injuries worse than that. No enemy action, no purple heart."
Kerry,
the antiwar candidate? Kerry is moving to the base of his party, not away from
it. He is kissing the Joe Lieberman wing goodbye. His decision reveals a political
calculation that the only way to take the nomination from Hillary is to move left, ride the
antiwar horse, and rally the Hollyleft and True Believers.
Aid and comfort to the enemy: The Kerry
record. Our appeal ... calls for his disqualification for public office in
accordance with the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, which states: "No person
shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President ... having
previously taken an oath ... to support the Constitution of the United States, [who has] engaged in
insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."
Kerry's Silver Star Citation(s): Lieutenant
John Kerry's award for the Silver Star has-not one citation, but three — an unheard of number
for a single award. Understandably, as we shall see, only Kerry's most recent citation — nearly
two decades older than the first and signed by a Secretary of the Navy who was years away from that
office when Lieutenant Kerry, now Senator Kerry, originally obtained the award — appears on his
website. (Not one of the three citations, incidentally, refer to the combat "V" that appears on
Kerry's website's DD 214.)
Comments on the 2004 Kerry Campaign:
John Kerry: "Man of the People".
Pictures of some of Kerry's multi-million dollar houses.
Rich Liberals: John Kerry and his
wife, Teresa, are worth an estimated $500 million. Along with a $35 million
private Gulfstream V jet and an $800,000 boat, they own five homes in the
U.S. (Source: MSNBC.com)
NASA Broke Law In Kerry Bunny Suit
Visit. Sen. John Kerry's visit to Kennedy Space Center during the 2004 presidential campaign
violated the law, according to a federal watchdog agency. NASA allowed Kerry to conduct a political
stump speech and rally at the space center and broadcasted it to KSC employees, and the latter part violates
the law, the Office of Special Counsel ruled, according to Local 6 News partner Florida Today.
Beaming the presidential campaign rally to government employees all over the spaceport violates laws
prohibiting electioneering using federal resources, according to the report.
Ex-Dem. Party Boss Blasts
Kerry in Book. Former Democratic Party boss and Clinton friend Terry McAuliffe is lambasting John
Kerry's unsuccessful presidential campaign, calling his effort to unseat President Bush 'one of the biggest acts
of political malpractice in the history of American politics.' … McAuliffe calls the Kerry campaign gun-shy,
distracted and incompetent.
Stop and
think: Part IV. Both Senator Kerry and Senator Edwards have been rated
as more liberal than Ted Kennedy. That's not Republican spin. They were ranked
that way by the leading liberal organization in the country, Americans for Democratic Action.
The
myth of the disenfranchised: On October 21, The Associated Press
reported: "Sen. John Kerry, bracing for a potential fight over election
results, will not hesitate to declare victory Nov. 2 and defend it, advisers
say. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing
whether he's secured the presidency."
Kerry
Loves the Mainstream Media and has contempt for the American people. America
is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an
ideological position that is permanently unforgivable. Henry Wallace never quite
managed, or George Wallace either. But Kerry's done it. [He apparently believes] American
free speech needs to be submitted to arbitration because Americans aren't smart enough to have a First
Amendment, and you can tell this is so, because Americans weren't smart enough to vote for John
Kerry.
Kerry Makes Bogus Comparison to Great Depression.
He claims US suffers greatest job loss since the 30's, which is not true. John Kerry didn't make it
through the third paragraph of his formal announcement speech before stumbling over a key fact about the U.S.
economy. … Comparing the current job slump to the Great Depression is ludicrous.
On the use
and abuse of labels. We deliberately called John Kerry a liberal during the
presidential campaign because the objective evidence indicates he's a liberal. We
believe that if more voters realized that, fewer would have voted for him — not
because we had unfairly depicted Kerry (we don't have to cheat to win), but because we had
accurately portrayed him as the liberal that he is. He spent most of his time trying
to pass himself off as anything other than a liberal.
Who Is Running Kerry's
Chaotic Campaign? The more relevant question: Is any one person in charge of
the senator's organization? Veteran Democratic strategist Tony Coelho, who managed
Al Gore's 2000 campaign with an iron fist in its early months, raised this question
last week in an interview with cbsnews.com, when he said Kerry's campaign was in disarray,
weakened by bickering and turf wars, with no heavyweight at the top to shape and direct
its message.
Bush
v. Kerry: Domestic Differences. Much presidential campaign ink has been spilled
over Vietnam, Iraq, and Heinz-Kerry verbal gaffes, but relatively little has been said about
the gulf that separates President George W. Bush and Senator John F. Kerry on domestic policy
issues. It is here, particularly on big issues like Social Security, taxes, and legal
reform, that the two candidates are miles apart.
Kerry keeps up missing-explosives
attacks. Mr. Kerry has shifted his argument since Monday [10/25/2004], when he blamed the
president for the 380 tons of explosives missing from Al-Qaqaa, as news outlets have reported since
that the explosives could not have been moved while the United States had control and that the amount
was overstated. In addition, according to an article in The Washington Times, the Russians moved
the explosives while Saddam Hussein was in control.
Kerry
the autocrat vs. Bush the small-d democrat. John Kerry goes by the
label "Democrat," but his views are autocratic. He prefers rule by courts to rule
by voters on social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. He is a
20th century candidate when it comes to Social Security and health care, favoring
governmental rather than individual control of everything from choosing investments
to choosing doctors.
John Kerry: A
square peg. I think the presidential election will ultimately turn on which of the
candidates the public trusts more, particularly because we are at war. For any number of
reasons, that does not bode well for Senator Kerry.
Who Does
Kerry Want to Lead Iraq? Among many other things, John Kerry has said
the Iraq war was the "wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time." There is
no possible way to interpret that statement than the way President Bush has: if
John Kerry had been President these past two years, Saddam Hussein would still be in power.
A
Grim Summary of Kerry Supporters. Among the most amazing and ominous of John Kerry's
statements during last week's presidential debate was his assertion that America should sell nuclear
fuel to Iran, in hopes that by so doing, that nation's despotic leadership might decide not to develop
nuclear weaponry. Even more amazing is the fact that nearly a full week has passed since the
debate, but Kerry has yet to backpedal or claim that he was "taken out of context."
Kerry's
Korea-gate mess: On the one hand we have a major television network
racing to broadcast news about 30-year-old "documents" — now proven to
be fraudulent — all in an effort to discredit President Bush. On
the other hand we virtually have all of the networks ignoring a real, fresh-as-today,
scandal involving the Kerry campaign's fund-raising. The Associated Press
reported this past week that a South Korean national who met with John Kerry's
fund-raisers and discussed setting up a new political group for Korean-Americans was
actually an intelligence agent for South Korea.
Kerry would still supply Iran
with nuclear fuel. Even while top Iranian officials are calling for the development of nuclear
weapons within the next four months, Sen. John Kerry insists as president he would provide Tehran with the
nuclear fuel it wants for a pledge to use it for peaceful purposes only. During the [first] debate
with President Bush, Kerry remarked that the U.S. should have given Iran the nuclear fuel it wanted.
Kerry pushes "GLBT" bumper
stickers. Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign offers "GLBT" bumper stickers, a
demonstration of his support for "gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered" activism.
Kerry
demeans our allies and helps our enemies. For those who may not know it,
John Forbes Kerry, son of a bitter and anti-American US diplomat, attended a
Swiss finishing school, speaks French, and married Theresa Heinz, the foreign-born,
multilingual widowed heiress to a nearly billion dollar Republican fortune. In
Kerry's eyes, he is therefore clearly more worldly and sensitive than Bush "the Texas
cowboy." Yet, the truth is that the cosmopolitan Kerry has done more in recent
months to insult, degrade and alienate America's real allies than any American
politician in memory.
John Kerry's
self-inflicted wounds. Though I am writing this column before the debate for
publication after the debate, I want to address Kerry's gnawing, self-inflicted wounds on
Iraq, as they are sure to be at the forefront of the discussion.
Kerry's
Fund-Raisers Met With South Korean Spy. A South Korean
who met with Sen. John Kerry's fund-raisers to discuss creating a
political group for Korean-Americans was an intelligence agent for
his country, raising concerns among some U.S. officials that either he or
his government might have tried to influence this fall's election.
New
Ad Hits Kerry for Meeting With Vietnamese Communists. A
new ad by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group of Vietnam veterans
opposed to Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, alleges that
Kerry secretly met with enemy leaders in Paris during the Vietnam War.
40 Reasons To Vote For George Bush
Or Against John Kerry: In John Kerry's 20 years in the Senate, he's been a
standard-issue Massachusetts liberal, with a lifetime rating from Americans for Democratic Action
of 93 on their 0-to-100 scale. By contrast, the other Senator from the Bay State,
Teddy Kennedy, has a lifetime rating of 88.
Mr. Perfect
for President. Beneath the Christophe-coifed hair, unnaturally
taut skin and artificially enhanced tan, there are some naked attributes
Kerry cannot conceal: His spite. His haughtiness. His
condescending core.
Middle
class mania. When John Kerry rattles off his tiresome
lists of complaints about the economy, it is sometimes challenging
to even figure out what he imagines he's saying.
The future
of oil: John Kerry, whose idea of the future extends only to Nov. 2, says
we should use less oil, but gasoline should be cheaper, so President Bush should stop
filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. But that is taking just 0.2 percent
of the oil in the world market. Were Bush to stop topping off the reserve, as
President Clinton did to help Al Gore's 2000 campaign, Kerry would accuse Bush of
manipulating prices for political advantage.
Responsible
voting: Since 90 percent of the black vote goes to Democrats, it is
especially important for Democrats to scare blacks, in order to get a large
turnout. Charges of "racism" have been used for this purpose in the past
but it is hard to make that stick against an administration with the first black
Secretary of State and the first black National Security Adviser in the White
House. The ploy this time is to claim that Republicans are trying to "suppress"
the black vote "again." Senator Kerry has stooped to this, despite the fact that
many of the voting booth problems in Florida in 2000 occurred in precincts
controlled by election officials who were Democrats.
Kerry
Campaign Responds to Woman Holding Sign Opposing Abortion. The
Kerry campaign staffer took the sign and "tore it to pieces" before quickly
retreating.
Same story: Pro-life
sign destroyed at Kerry rally. A staffer for John Kerry tore up a
pro-life sign held by a protester at a campaign rally in Florida after it
apparently was noticed by the presidential candidate.
[So much for inclusiveness, tolerance and diversity of opinion.]
John
Kerry does it again. Democratic presidential candidate
John Kerry has achieved something that may be unique in the history of
our country. He has managed to oppose two wars while they are being
fought, undermine the objective of the nation and give aid and comfort to
those who are killing American soldiers and kidnapping American civilians.
Kerry
Taxes Will Sock It To Middle Class Families. When liberals
say they only want to "tax the rich" what is sometimes lost in translation
is that they define "rich" as anyone who actually has a job.
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Kerry's Vietnam-era record:
Heroes and Purple
Hearts: Kerry has no missing arms or legs to testify to his sacrifice
for his country. He has no patch over an empty eye socket. He can't even show us the
ugly scars where hot lead ripped through his young body. He just has the medals.
Dole rips Kerry over
war medals. "As far as I know, he's never spent one day in the hospital. I
don't think he draws any disability pay. He doesn't have any disability – and
boasting about three Purple Hearts, when you think of some of the people who really got shot
up in Vietnam," Mr. Dole said.
New!
Mystery Surrounds Kerry's Navy Discharge. An
official Navy document on Senator Kerry's campaign Web site listed as Mr. Kerry's "Honorable Discharge from
the Reserves" opens a door on a well kept secret about his military service. The document is a form
cover letter in the name of the Carter administration's secretary of the Navy, W. Graham Claytor. It
describes Mr. Kerry's discharge as being subsequent to the review of "a board of officers." This in
itself is unusual. There is nothing about an ordinary honorable discharge action in the
Navy that requires a review by a board of officers.
Kerry's
betrayal of his brothers: Early on in his presidential campaign, John Kerry
capitalized on his four months of action in Vietnam and proclaimed to the American public
that he is a man of courage and valor. The ads were supposed to suggest that having
been on the front lines, Kerry is uniquely qualified to offer leadership in the war on
terror. A better gage, however, would be the opinions of those who served with Kerry
and the track record of weakness and error he accumulated over the past
20 years as a legislator.
Tainted
media: Who in the major media has asked why John Kerry would need to be
issued an honorable discharge during the Carter administration, years after leaving
the navy, unless his original discharge was less than honorable? One of Jimmy
Carter's first acts as President was to issue an order granting amnesties to draft
dodgers who had fled the country during the Vietnam war and also allowing an upgrading
of military discharges that had been less than honorable.
Shuddering
at a Kerry victory. Was he right? Not about voters' incomes, but,
really, about anything? Was John Kerry right to champion the cause of North
Vietnam's brutal communist dictators? (They think so: The War Remnants
Museum in Ho Chi Minh City depicts Kerry as a hero of its victory against the United
States.) Was he right to boost the Soviet-supported Sandinista regime in
Nicaragua? To knock the liberation of Marxist Grenada as a "bully's show
of force"? To embrace the nuclear freeze movement during the height of the
Cold War? To vote against the first Gulf War? If Americans elect John
Kerry president, they will answer yes, validating a long career of uninterrupted,
unshakeable leftism that has opposed, time and again, the expansion of freedom
and democracy.
The unsubstantiated
heroism of Hanoi John. It was Kerry — not the Swift Boat
Veterans — who told The Washington Post: "I wish they had a delete button
on LexisNexis." The Swift Boat Veterans haven't been forced to retract any of their
story. Meanwhile, John Kerry has been issuing about a retraction a day since the
Swift Boat Veterans started talking.
Kerry,
Vietnam And The Truth. The media, which had built [Howard Dean] up as the savior of the
Democrat Party and eventually the nation, did a number on Dean using his own words and he sunk big time
and fast. They quickly built up Kerry as someone who projected stability. Without the push
the media gave to Kerry in the week before the Iowa vote it is doubtful that he would have pulled
it off. He was the "Comeback Kerry." Things have gone along well now for the media's
agenda. They continue to present a highly negative view of the President while presenting a
positive view of his challenger.
Mr.
Excitement: Having launched his convention with a double-barreled blast about
how heroic he was in Vietnam, Kerry quickly decided he didn't want to talk about a war that
ended 29 years ago after fellow veterans showed "inconsistencies" in his story. He
doesn't want to talk about his multiple trips to Paris to meet with communist leaders during
the Vietnam War. Now, with former POWs pointing out in TV ads that Kerry's "antiwar"
rhetoric was used by Hanoi to increase their suffering, the Democrat
candidate is really excited about changing the subject.
Kerry's
Quagmire: Last March, Democratic National Committee
loudmouth Terry McAuliffe estimated that Kerry would have to win
the hearts and minds of veterans in order to defeat George W.
Bush. So he wrapped Kerry in his embellished war record
and, a month later, took a cheap shot at President Bush, proclaiming
that he was AWOL during his last year of service as an Air National
Guard fighter pilot. Right about now, McAuliffe and Kerry
are wishing they'd never fired that shot.
Kerry's
Vietnam. Unfortunately for Kerry, field of glory does not work in a place he
himself once proclaimed the scene of a crime.
Kerry Stuck in Vietnam
Quagmire. When John Kerry and his managers decided to make his service in Vietnam the
centerpiece of his presidential campaign, they must have forgotten that "quagmire" is the word most
often associated with that still-controversial conflict. In the days since the conclusion
of the Boston Democratic convention, a quagmire is exactly what Kerry has been mired in.
Kerry's
latest double-standard. John Kerry, the man who told us electing a
certifiable draft dodger as president in 1992 was the right thing to do, now tells
us it's time to dump George Bush and Dick Cheney because they did not volunteer to
serve in Vietnam.
The opaque
John Kerry. With one stroke, candidate John Kerry could do a lot to lift
the fog of the media war over his four-month tour of duty in Vietnam if he were finally
to authorize the release of all his service records in the current resurrection of that
deadly conflict.
John
Kerry's "self-inflicted" Purple Heart and Bronze Star: The Vietnam
Swift Boat vets reveal new details of charges against presidential
candidate: Two injuries — a small bruise on his right
arm and a minor injury to his buttocks — won Kerry his Third
Purple Heart and a trip home. However, the vets say, the wound to
his buttocks was self-inflicted and should never have received Purple
Heart consideration.
Jobs
and snow jobs: Part II. Evading issues instead of debating them has
become the hallmark of an election campaign that has degenerated into a raucous
dispute about what two young lieutenants did or didn't do more than 30 years
ago. Senator Kerry's making his Vietnam war record the central theme of his
campaign was itself an evasion of the record of his decades in politics since
then. Jobs hysteria is only the latest in a series of evasions
and distractions.
The
Book on John Kerry: The New Soldier, published in 1971, for which Kerry
shares authorial credit with the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War [is a very
hot item]. A signed first edition in mint condition is being offered on Alibris
for $850. Other copies in varying condition have been on the auction block at eBay,
none fetching less than $100. The book's rarity has led to speculation that
Kerry systematically rounded up existing copies.
Editor's Note: Well... apparently
he didn't round them up soon enough. The text of John Kerry's
nearly-impossible-to-obtain book about his war experiences is now available for
download. You can get a free copy of John Kerry's book in PDF
format here.
Kerry's
FBI File: Today, Senator Kerry likes the political attention his medals
afford him. However, during one protest, Kerry was seen tossing his precious
medals over the White House fence. Except now he says those were not actually his
medals, but somebody else's medals he discarded. Another version has him tossing
over just the ribbons. Which is it?
Is Kerry Running
for President … or an Oscar? I've sometimes wondered how it could
be that John Kerry had so many pictures of himself from his Navy days in Vietnam. Just
four months "in country," as Vietnam vets say, during which time he earned three Purple Hearts,
one Silver Star and one Bronze Star, and he comes home with what are reportedly
hours — hours! — of 8 millimeter film.
Tours of
duty: Kerry's insistence on making his four-month tour of duty in Vietnam
the centerpiece of his campaign could backfire as Americans learn more about what he did
in that country and, more importantly, what he did when he returned home.
Kerry's
words coming back to haunt him, along with a few quotes from Jane
Fonda and others.
John
Kerry 2004 = John Kerry 1971. Frankly, the prospect of John Kerry becoming
commander in chief at this critical point in our history horrifies me, mainly because
I believe the John Kerry of 1971 is the John Kerry of today.
Who
Is John Kerry? When Kerry joined me in the Senate, I already knew
about his record of defamatory remarks and behavior criticizing U.S. policy in
Vietnam and the conduct of our military personnel there. I had learned in North
Vietnamese prisons how much harm such statements caused.
Kerry
needs to answer. Serious questions about his war record can easily be
answered, if Senator Kerry will simply file a one-page SF-180 federal
form to release his military records. That file includes all the necessary
details about his wounds and medals.
John Kerry's War Record: Dozens
of additional articles.
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Kerry's voting record in the Senate:
New!
Kerry On Iraq clearly documents
John Kerry's changing position on the U.S. involvement in Iraq, using video clips of the
senator contradicting himself.
Just How Many Bills Has Kerry
Passed? At the final presidential debate, Bush said Kerry had passed only
five bills during his career, and Kerry said he had passed 56. Actually, [FactCheck dot org]
found eleven measures authored by Kerry have been signed into law, including a save-the-dolphins
law, a law naming a federal building, a law giving a posthumous award to Jackie Robinson last
year, and laws declaring "world population awareness weeks" in 1989 and 1991.
Kerry on
Abortion: Recent Words Don't Square with His 20-Year Senate Record.
Kerry's
Record on National Defense: In the 1980's he was one of the few Democrats arguing for
a "nuclear freeze" for America's nuclear weapons program. He opposed the production of the
AH-64 Apache helicopter, Patriot missile, the F-15, F-14A and F-14D jets, the AV-8B Harrier jet,
the Aegis air-defense cruiser, and the Trident missile system. He voted to cut back production
of the M1 Abrams tank, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, the Tomahawk cruise missile, and
the F-16. In 1991, Kerry voted to cut more than $3 billion from defense and shift
the funds to social programs. In 1992, Kerry voted to cut $6 billion from defense.
Never. Never
have the American people elected as president a candidate with a record on national security issues resembling
that of John Kerry. The American people have never elected president someone who voted against an
appropriation to support troops fighting in a war he had approved.
Kerry AWOL on 91.5% Of Current
Session Votes. In the 108th Congress Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and John
Edwards (D-NC) have failed to vote to represent their constituency an alarming
number of times.
John Kerry's Blank
Resume: If someone applied to you for a job but didn't want to talk about what he
has been doing in the last 20 years, wouldn't you be suspicious? Might you not think
he was insulting your intelligence by expecting you to hire him on the basis of what he
did decades ago?
Senator John Kerry's Congressional
Record: In spite of his close ties to Ted Kennedy and others, Kerry has
not gained a reputation as a key legislative figure in the Senate. Only three
pieces of legislation bear his name; two of these involve marine
microbiology. Cumulatively over the course of his four-term
Senate career, Kerry has voted with Kennedy 94% of the time in key votes.
Kerry, Gun Control and
Hunting: Besides the cursory newspaper articles about how John has
hunted since a child (a la Clinton in 1992), John Kerry espouses the belief
that there should be reasonable controls placed upon gun ownership and
availability. The only issue gun owners may have with this is that every
restriction that comes along is reasonable to him. Like Clinton, the
2nd Amendment is about hunting. And like Clinton, he believes he
should tell us what is reasonable and what we need.
Hail Kerry
pass: It's Kerry's own fault. He believed his advisors, who believed
polls and focus groups that said in order to be elected the candidates must be strong on
national defense and act like a warrior — since the nation just happens to be
threatened and just happens to be at war. Senator Kerry has the voting record of a
Sixties Hippie Pacifist, so how could he possibly trot that out as a reason to be commander
in chief?
New York: Armed
Camp. John Kerry consistently underestimates the dangers this nation faces. When
the Soviet Union was attempting to gain nuclear supremacy in the 1980s, they endorsed and
(through their willing agents among European and American leftists) popularized the idea of
a "nuclear freeze." Reagan saw through it. He knew that a freeze would actually
cement a Soviet advantage in intercontinental ballistic missiles. But Kerry fell
for it. As a new senator he introduced the Comprehensive Nuclear Freeze bill.
Democrats
say Kerry's Senate Record is Off-Limits, Too. Democrats are afraid the people
are going to find out about John Kerry's Senate record. That's the only way you can
explain their incessant accusations that Republicans are being mean and angry when they
merely discuss his record. … Their bizarre premise has been that Kerry's
allegedly distinguished combat record alone qualifies him to be commander in chief — no
matter what he has done since.
Cash-and-Kerry: Senator
John F. Kerry has a long political career, distinguished by his willingness to go farther
Left in politics and lower for money than most other American politicians would
dream of going.
Kerry's Missing
Years: We all know that Senator John Kerry was in the Vietnam
war. He repeatedly reminds us of it at every opportunity. He also repeats
the great things he will accomplish when he becomes President of the United States. What
he says very little about is what he has actually accomplished in the three decades
in between.
John
Kerry's record on national security: Democratic presidential hopeful John
Kerry has opposed some of the most effective — and publicly popular — military
weapons in the U.S. arsenal during the past 15 years. The Massachusetts
senator voted against defense appropriations bills that included money for weapons
such as the Patriot missile, the Tomahawk cruise missile and the B-2 stealth
bomber — all of which military leaders say have become integral to
the U.S. force and were crucial to winning the 1991 Gulf war
and last year's war in Iraq.
Kerry's
clever tax cut: Sen. John Kerry moved to the right of Walter Mondale by
proposing a small cut in the corporate tax rate, which he would lower to 33.25 percent
from 35 percent. In political terms, it's a clever ploy. In economic
terms, it merely provides a small offset to the significant tax hikes Kerry proposes
on capital formation, where he would slap small businesses, top-bracket taxpayers,
dividends and capital gains.
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Teresa Heinz, the ketchup fortune, and big money issues:
Teresa
Heinz Kerry taxed at 12.4 percent for 2003. Teresa
Heinz Kerry paid taxes in 2003 at an overall U.S. federal tax rate
of 12.4 percent on an income of $5.07 million, the Wall Street
Journal said Monday [10/18/2004].
Mrs.
Kerry Would Focus on "Gay Tolerance" As First Lady. If her husband is elected president,
Teresa Heinz Kerry "pledges to make gay tolerance a centerpiece of her First Lady duties," an online
media company reported.
Heinz Kerry's "Real Job": USA
Today identified her as a "philanthropist." Does giving away her late husband's money
constitute a real job? And what kind of job is it? A recent report from the majority staff
of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee identifies the Heinz foundations
as being among the "environmental groups and their supporting organizations" engaged in
blatant partisan political activity. Heinz Kerry is either chairperson of the board of
trustees or a member of the board of at least three Heinz family-affiliated foundations
that contribute millions of dollars to radical environmental causes. That's her
"real job."
Why I
cannot vote for John Kerry. [Reason #3:] It brings me no joy to
say that Teresa Heinz Kerry is not worthy of being the first lady of the United States of
America. From her public utterances — such as young American men and
women dying in Iraq because of American "greed for oil" — and her many years of
financial support for radical groups, it is clear to me and many others that this
woman does not particularly care for this country.
Kerry
told to take his wife "out of the spotlight". Democratic election
advisers have ordered Teresa Heinz Kerry to adopt a lower profile in the final
stages of the campaign by her husband, Senator John Kerry, for the White House
because they fear that she may be alienating voters.
"Liability"
Teresa Kerry alarms Democrats. The jury was out for a while,
but Teresa Heinz Kerry has been declared a resounding liability by women.
All
about Teresa: Long before any mention of her current husband,
she invokes the memory of her dead Republican first husband, Senator John
Heinz, whose family fortune she now spends on behalf of a Democrat, and
in support of extreme left wing causes through the Tides Foundation. Would
Senator Heinz be proud that his son spoke before a Democratic convention,
solely because his stepfather was the presumptive nominee?
Kerry's costly
loan: Sen. John Kerry gave himself quite a Christmas present last year. Mr.
Kerry lent his cash-strapped presidential campaign $6.4 million two days before
Christmas. Two factors made the loan possible. The first was the seemingly
infinite liquidity of Teresa Heinz Kerry, the ketchup heiress he married in 1995. Mrs.
Heinz Kerry reportedly forked over virtually all of the funds for the newly married couple's
mansion in Boston's exclusive Beacon Hill neighborhood. The second factor was a
little help from her friends at the Mellon financial conglomerate, who signed off on
an eye-popping home appraisal. That super-sized appraisal made the loan much larger
than it otherwise could have been.
He's spending his wife's money... and your money, too.
FEC
Approves $74.7M in Funding for Kerry. The Federal Election Commission
approved on Friday [July 30] the release of $74.7 million in federal money
that Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and running mate John Edwards will
use until Election Day.
John
Kerry & Benedict Arnold: Let's do the favor of taking Kerry's rhetoric
seriously. CEOs seeking foreign customers and lower taxes abroad are "Benedict
Arnolds," selling out their nation for venal reasons. Teresa Heinz Kerry owns
millions in stock in the Heinz Company, the ketchup and pickle empire. Of
Heinz's 79 factories, 57 are located outside North America, and 72 percent
of its work force is offshore. John Kerry is, by his own logic, married to a
woman implicated in acts of treason.
Kerry's
Wife Won't Release Tax Returns. Teresa Heinz Kerry, heir to a
$500 million ketchup fortune and would-be first lady, has refused to make
public her tax returns.
Testy Teresa
Tirade: I Can't Believe I Came to America. It didn't take long for
the rigors of the campaign trail to sour first lady-in-waiting Teresa Heinz, who fumed
yesterday that she "can't believe" she moved to America and married an American politician.
Teresa
Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left. Teresa Heinz Kerry has financed
the secretive Tides Foundation to the tune of more than $4 million over the
years. The Tides Foundation, a “charity” established in 1976 by antiwar leftist
activist Drummond Pike, distributes millions of dollars in grants every year to political
organizations advocating far-Left causes.
Kerry Won't
Release Tax Info on Teresa's Treasure. Democratic presidential candidate
John Kerry vacations in multimillion-dollar mansions, owns a $700,000 yacht, rides exotic
Italian motorcycles and helps finance it all with a millions in annual income from family
investments in Heinz Foods.
Isn't
that rich?! John Kerry is the richest man in the U.S. Senate. John
Edwards amassed a $60 million fortune during a legendary career as a trial lawyer
in North Carolina. Yet both these guys have no trouble calling the present White
House occupant out of touch and out of sync. You know what's out of sync with
people? Try a $600 million net worth, Sen. Kerry. You know what's
out of touch with normal folks? Try a $3.8 million house in
Georgetown, Sen. Edwards.
Kerry's
wife funds critics of Bush ads. The non-profit, tax-exempt organization
representing the families of September 11 victims who are critical of campaign
ads by President Bush is a project of the Tides Center, which has received millions
of dollars in charitable contributions from foundations chaired by Teresa
Heinz Kerry, according to WorldNetDaily.
Heinz
Foundation Aids "Radical" Environmental and Advocacy Groups: A
foundation managed by the wife of Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) has been providing financial
support to a group that promotes "radical" social and environmental causes. Since 1995,
the Heinz Endowments donated over $4 million to the Tides Foundation and
Center. The Tides Foundation and Center sits atop a murky labyrinth of non-profits
that creates and sustains organizations advocating a wide range of liberal causes.
Just
a gigolo. I'm sure the average working stiff in Massachusetts can relate to a
guy who borrows $6 million against his house to pay for TV ads.
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Contradictions, waffles, half-truths, flip-flops and prevarications:
A
question of character. If you were to choose just one vignette to
illustrate John Kerry's worst character flaw as a public official — his
lack of political courage — what would it be? If voters have
learned anything about Kerry by now, it is that time and again he will unhesitatingly
say "flip," only to subsequently say "flop." The war in Iraq, capital punishment
for terrorists, stiffer sanctions on Cuba, free trade agreements, pre-emption,
defense-of-marriage laws, Israel's security fence, the Grenada invasion, the
Patriot Act, reducing troop levels in Korea — on all of these and more,
Kerry has taken contradictory positions, often abandoning a politically difficult
stand for one more convenient or popular.
With a
wink and a nod. Here we are less than two weeks from the election and
John Kerry is still playing "hide the ball." The last thing he wants most
of us — excluding his loony, militant base — to know is who
he really is.
John
Kerry's Enigmatic Faith and Works: By Kerry's actions and words it would
appear he is a Catholic for political expediency and plays the "separation of church and
state" card to suit his agenda. Even though he believes abortion is wrong, based on
his religions convictions, he passionately votes for every pro-abortion law and against
every pro-life piece of legislation.
Kerry
was for global court (before he was against it). John Kerry was for the
International Criminal Court before he was (sort of) against it, and he will likely be
for it again after Nov. 2. But try tracking down where he stands today and
you will run into his fixed political modus operandi before you find his fixed policy
position. That M.O. consists of issuing carefully qualified statements designed to
obscure, while not necessarily contradicting, his basic underlying stance — in
this case, support for a global tribunal that would trump our Constitution.
Does
he or doesn't he? Senator Kerry is trying to make the practice of faith
an issue in the presidential election. But if you listen to what he says, it's
extremely difficult to figure out exactly what is and isn't an acceptable application
of one's faith in the public square. Quite frankly, his message on faith and
policy sounds like gobbledygook.
Campaign ad
nauseum. Kerry and his political handlers appear congenitally incapable of using
statistics honestly. They view numbers as weapons of mass deception and could care less
where the numbers come from or what they really mean. Each new Kerry-Edwards campaign ad
proves once again that these candidates are habitually incompetent and/or dishonest in their
use of economic facts.
Cataloging Kerry's
Canards. Spinning facts and figures is as old as politics itself, but Wednesday
night [10/13/2004], Sen. John Kerry marshaled a mountain of distortions to create his own
America — one that exists only as a figment of his imagination.
90%
Baloney: Kerry-Edwards lie about casualty numbers in Iraq. In
the first debate between President Bush and Senator Kerry, Kerry said again and again that
Americans are suffering 90 percent of the casualties in Iraq, and that American
taxpayers are paying 90 percent of the costs. In the vice-presidential
debates, Sen. John Edwards said the same thing. It would be a tremendously
effective line ... if it were true, that is.
Democrats
Misled by Playing Draft Card The latest fear factor being injected into the
presidential election equation is a ghost from our past — the military
draft. For the past several weeks, moms of the soccer and security persuasion,
as well as the demographic known as The Youth Vote, have been targeted by an e–mail
campaign promising reinstitution of the military draft should President
George W. Bush be re–elected.
Kerry
Surrogates Continue to Peddle Draft Rumor. President Bush made it clear at Friday's
[10/8/2004] debate that the United States wouldn't have a military draft under his watch, but that
didn't stop top Democrats from circulating rumors afterward that it could still happen.
The
reckoning: For more than 30 years, John Kerry has been vaulting back and
forth over the Vietnam fence — believing that the war was his
trump. As his coattails flapped with each jump, he radiated
confidence. He had the thing nailed. He opposed the war, but he
served. He was wounded and he protested. How perfect. Through
the years, he sometimes ran on his credentials as a war protestor
and sometimes as a war hero. He threw his ribbons away. He kept
his medals.
It's Just That
Simple. Despite what he said in last week's debate, John Kerry's record shows that he is for
partial-birth abortion, and against parental notification.
John
Kerry's Self-contradictory Statements on Abortion. [Either] Sen. Kerry
fully understands that abortion is murder, but he supports abortion anyway
[or] his cognitive ability is so unhinged that he is unable to connect the dots between
life beginning at conception and abortion [or] he is willing to talk out of both sides
of his mouth — sometimes virtually in the same breath — to appeal
to various constituencies, regardless of whether or not he believes what he
is saying.
Catholic Bishops and
Communion: In August [2004] three Roman Catholic bishops issued a statement
entitled, "Worthy to Receive the Lamb: Catholics in Political Life and the Reception of Holy
Communion." The message: consistent support of pro-abortion legislation is a grave sin from
which public officials must recant before receiving Holy Communion.
Catholics Against Kerry: When
Senator Kerry votes in favor of the most gruesome form of abortion, marches in parades with
pro-abortion forces, spends time visiting Planned Parenthood clinics, and speaks before militant
pro-abortion groups like NARAL, are his actions consistent with your Catholic values?
Kerry
Doesn't Know the Difference Between Right and Wrong. John Kerry, attempting
to modify his pro-abortion record during a presidential run, recently conceded that
life begins at conception. But in doing so, he also acknowledged his own complicity in
the barbaric practice, for if one believes life begins at conception, one surely must
know that abortion is the equivalent of murder.
Nuclear Power Flip-Flop: Kerry is
for nuclear power but opposed to the Yucca Mountain waste site.
Statements
made by Democrats, Then and Now. a/k/a the Flip-Flop Chart.
Kerry's
Catholic problem: [John Kerry is] a 100 percent NARAL pro-abortion
militant. Partial-birth abortion? He's for that, too. Letting adults
other than the parents transport minors across state lines for an abortion? Count
him in. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which counts the unborn
baby as a victim when a pregnant woman is killed or her child is killed against
her wishes? He voted against it. Kerry even opposed The Born-Alive
Infant Protection Act, which has made it illegal to kill a baby who somehow survives
an abortion.
The
prospect of Kerry is scary. Where does John Kerry stand on the war in
Iraq today? Where did he stand yesterday? The week before? Where
will he stand between now and November? What does he really believe
about it?
The gaseous
John Kerry: Surging world demand in a recovering global economy is what
has driven up gas prices, which respond to the mundane forces of supply and demand. The
Massachusetts senator knows this, but pretends instead that the international oil market
is controlled by Bush the way the full-service attendant controls the pump at your local
gas station. Nothing is so unedifying as watching someone feign economic ignorance
for the benefit of voters genuinely ignorant of basic economics. But this is the
Kerry play on gas.
1992
again? One day Kerry is explaining why he met with Vietnamese Communists outside
Paris while our nation was at war with them. Another day he is caught cussing a Secret
Service bodyguard. In that scrape, he also was caught claiming he does not fall off his
skis, though reporters saw him fall half a dozen times. Now he is entangled in a row
over whether he, a pro-abortion Catholic, should be taking Holy Communion.
Kerry's
Character: This week's controversy over John Kerry and his medals is,
of course, really about John Kerry and his morals. Can we trust this man?
Kerry's
green machine: Why is the League of Conservation Voters such a big fan of
Senator John Kerry? Henry Lamb says all you have to do is follow the
money… or to be more accurate, Theresa Heinz's money.
You should also examine Kerry's 11 Positions On The War In Iraq
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John Edwards:
John
Edwards vs. Babies and Moms. [As a trial lawyer, John] Edwards won at least 94 cases, according
to Lawyers Weekly, of which 54 netted more than $1 million each. Normally attorneys take a
40 percent cut of cases that go to trial. In his last year as a practicing attorney, 1997, he
reported an adjusted gross income of $11.4 million.
Muzzling
Edwards? Sen. John Edwards, departing from the usual pattern of vice presidential
candidates appearing regularly on Sunday talk shows, has been turning down all such
invitations. … Well-informed Democrats have speculated that John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry
have muzzled Edwards because they do not want him to overshadow the presidential candidate.
Ill-Gotten Gains Keep Edwards
Smiling. Everyone knows a Kerry-Edwards win [would have meant] higher
taxes. Few know that half the ticket has already helped raise our medical
premiums. You see, while Kerry made his fortune the double old-fashioned way
by first inheriting it and then marrying it, his grinning running mate was piling
up a Mt. McKinley of cash from medical lawsuits. Further, his favorite weapon
was what's known in the science community as "a bunch of hooey."
La
Grippe of the Trial Lawyers. If Kerry thinks he can solve the flu vaccine
problem, he need look no further than his own running mate, trial lawyer John
Edwards. Vaccines are the one area of medicine where trial lawyers are almost
completely responsible for the problem. No one can plausibly point a finger
at insurance companies, drug companies, or doctors. Lawyers have won the vaccine
game so completely that nobody wants to play.
About John Edwards: John
Edwards is a personal injury trial lawyer — the kind that bad, but well-deserved,
jokes are made about. He is a "smart, charming, smooth talker," who only has five years
experience in politics, period. He is a first term senator from North Carolina elected
in 1998 and has held no other elective office. But he has made quite a successful
living as a trial lawyer. In fact, he was so busy making his living, that he did not
even bother to vote in half of the elections between 1991 and 1998.
Liberals can't
level. While Senator John Kerry and his running-mate Senator John Edwards were
recently being photographed at lunchtime at Wendy's, to show what regular guys they are,
their real lunch was from a local yacht club, which is more their speed in real life.
Edwards
and his wife made $39 million in the past decade. Democratic vice presidential
candidate John Edwards and his wife made almost $39 million in the past decade, about
80 percent of it before he was elected to the Senate in 1998, according to tax returns
released Friday [9/3/2004]. They paid nearly 35 percent of that income to the
Internal Revenue Service, the returns show.
Editor's Note:
Thirty-five percent is a really low tax rate at that income level, but
not as good as the 12.4% rate paid by Teresa Heinz (see above). The
article goes on to say that on their 1997 tax return, Mrs. Edwards was listed
as a lawyer. On their most recent tax return, she listed her occupation
as homemaker. Does a person ever stop being a lawyer (or a doctor or an
accountant or whatever you're trained to be) just by staying home?
The
unbalanced ticket: Ratings by the liberal Americans for
Democratic Action (ADA) for 2003 (the last year when both Sen. Kerry
and Sen. Edwards were around to cast votes most of the time) put both
in the same ideological pigeonhole. Out of 20 votes selected
by the ADA for that year, not one found the two Democrats opposing each
other. Neither voted against the ADA liberal line on any issue.
The JFK
ticket: It won't so easily be forgotten that Kerry just yesterday said
readiness to be president was his chief criterion for his VP selection — which
would rank Edwards well behind Dick Gephardt.
Edwards shops at Wal-Mart
...which would be no big deal except that Wal-Mart is so
greatly despised by liberals.
Edwards and Obama Battle Against Wal-Mart:
Senator Obama and another potential Democratic 2008 presidential contender, a former North Carolina senator,
John Edwards, will speak to activists from one of Wal-Mart's most vociferous union-backed critics today as
debate over the world's largest retailer becomes increasingly political.
Oops!
Edwards Acknowledges Wal-Mart
Gaffe. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Thursday that a staff member for former Sen. John
Edwards — a vocal critic of the retailer — asked his local Wal-Mart store for help in
getting the potential 2008 presidential candidate a Sony PlayStation 3. Edwards said a volunteer
did so by mistake.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Edwards acknowledges staff asked
Wal-Mart for Playstation 3. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards acknowledged Thursday
that amid his criticism of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., a volunteer member of his staff asked the world's largest
retailer for help obtaining a hot new Sony Playstation 3 for Edwards' family.
Class Warfare in the Aisles of Wal-Mart.
While ordinary working-class people across America were queuing for the new PlayStation 3, one fellow had a
bright idea — dropping his boss's name at Wal-Mart to get the next-gen console sent over on the QT
for the boss's family. Unfortunately, the boss was former Sen. John Edwards, John Kerry's would-be veep
and famous nemesis of Wal-Mart's evil dominion over the Earth. The hypocrisy was delicious: It was
on the same day Edwards was talking to union activists about Wal-Mart's labor policies.
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The 2004 Democratic Party platform and the Democrats' convention:
Much of the material about the Democratic party platform has been moved
here.
The Left's
real issue: If President Bush was lying about WMD and Saddam's coordination
with Osama, then under the Kerry "real and imminent" test, there could be no justification
for sending troops to war even with the joinder of every other nation in the world. So
his talk about the sparseness of the coalition, unilateralism, or alienating allies, is all
irrelevant chatter, as is his boast that he could do better in building a coalition.
Catholics
and Kerry: Five swing state newspapers will publish a full-page ad
Wednesday [10/20/2004] chiding Democratic Sen. John Kerry for embracing abortion
rights — what an accompanying list of Catholic elected officials and voters argue
is a contradiction to his faith.
Anything to
get elected. After the second presidential debate, in which John Kerry used the
word "plan" 24 times, I said on television that Kerry has a plan for everything except
curing psoriasis. I should have known there is no parodying Kerry's pandering. It
turned out days later that the Kerry campaign has a plan — nay, a promise — to
cure paralysis. What is the plan? Vote for Kerry.
One question not
asked. There was no talk of limited government last night [in the Bush-Kerry
debate]. Instead there was talk of: firehouses not having enough firefighters, a
shortage of flu vaccine, the rise in health insurance premiums, how laid-off workers should
attend community college, the need for more grade-school math and science, the high price of
gasoline and medicine, a minimum wage for unskilled workers, education for parents who don't
speak English — and those are just the ones I managed to scribble down.
527 Organizations: Unintended
Consequences of Campaign "Reform". The 2004 Presidential election cycle has
been unlike any other in recent memory. Several factors contribute to this
situation. Admittedly, leftists recognize the "all or nothing" possibilities
for their worn out '60's agenda, with George W. Bush perceived as the greatest
impediment to their utopian delusions. Furthermore, they remain enraged
that they were unable to dimple sufficient numbers of chads in Florida to secure
their theft of the 2000 presidential race.
Kerry's
Crowd is Sweating, Squealing and Sinking. Remember,
Senator Kerry is their plan B. Plan A was Howard Dean. The
problem was when they turned to look to another candidate, the choices
were … pretty thin. Choosing among Dennis Kucinich, Al Sharpton
and John Kerry had to be tough. [But] …is this the peg on which
you want to hang your hat? Hey, this is a man whose photos
are preserved in the Vietcong anti-American war museum!
Born-again
vs. perfect: John Kerry graduated from Yale in 1966. George Bush
graduated in 1968. I graduated from said institution in 1971. With the Kerry
campaign in full panic mode about the swift boat charges, maybe I can provide some
perspective on the environment that has led to the current confusion.
Kerry's
campaign theme: judge me by my words alone. This is the first of
two columns — one won't be enough — addressing the audacious statements
in John Kerry's convention speech.
Nobody
seems to know anything nice about Kerry. What was the
message of John Kerry's Democratic Party this week? According to
vice-presidential pin-up John Edwards, they want to bring an end
to "the tired, old, hateful, negative politics of the past". The trick for
those on stage was to imply Bush was a liar and a draft-dodger and
a war criminal but not to claim outright that he was the new Hitler and
enjoyed drinking the blood of Iraqi babies.
Kerry's
Economic Remedy Won't Be Revealed Before the Election. A
top economic advisor to Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said the public
won't hear Kerry's financial plans until after he's elected — if he's elected.
Kerry's
angry base: The goal of Kerry's managers is to keep the convention energized
and enthusiastic while not projecting a message that is obnoxious to the great mass of
Americans. John Kerry won't call for the immediate removal of U.S. troops from
Iraq. He won't talk about gun control. He won't embrace Michael Moore,
and he will "edit" Max Cleland.
What John
Kerry's America will look like: Here are a few predictions of what will
transpire in the unlikely event that John Kerry becomes the most powerful
man on Earth.
Kerry Promises
Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants. Sen. John Kerry promised [6/29/2004] an
amnesty for most illegal immigrants who have been in the United States for at least
five years.
Exploiting
America's Dead for Political Gain: What Kerry apparently didn't explain during
his interview with the New York Times was about what exactly Bush and Cheney were wrong, or
what would have happened differently for soldiers not to have "lost their lives."
Civil
Rights Leader Stewing Over Kerry's Second Black President Comment. Paula
Diane Harris, the founder and president of the Andrew Young National
Center for Social Change which provides legal services to the poor, said the
millionaire Caucasian Kerry needs to publicly apologize for his insensitive and
racist comments about being a black man. "John Kerry is not a black man — he
is a privileged white man who has no idea what it is in this country to be a poor white
in this country, let alone a black man," Harris exclaimed to the Associated Press.
A question
of patriotism: According to the funhouse logic of the Kerry campaign, I have
no choice but to question Kerry's patriotism. As Mort Kondracke of Roll Call has been
dutifully chronicling, ever since Kerry became the unofficial nominee, Kerry has claimed
that criticism of his record equals criticism of his patriotism.
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The people with whom Mr. Kerry associates:
The
Media — John Kerry's Base. Surveys over the past two decades
show that journalists tend to be Democrats, especially the ones based in Washington. Some
surveys have found that more than 80 percent of the Beltway press corps votes
Democratic.
Hysterical
women for Kerry: Rosie [the Riveter] is gone. And in her place, we
have Hysterical Women for Kerry. They are self-absorbed celebrities who support
banning all guns (except the ones their bodyguards use to protect them and their
children). They are teachers' union bigwigs who support keeping all children
hostage in public schools (except their own sons and daughters who have access to the
best private institutions). They are sanctimonious environmentalists who oppose
ostentatious energy consumption (except for their air-conditioned Malibu mansions and
Gulfstream jets and custom Escalades.)
NewsMax Uncovers
Kerry's Ties to Anti-Bush Groups: Even as Sen. John Kerry and his cheerleaders
in Big Media try to associate President Bush with the modestly funded Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth, they remain silent about the links Kerry and the Democrat party have to
multimillion-dollar Bush-hating groups. But they cannot keep concealing these ties,
because NewsMax has uncovered multiple examples.
Insurance
Billionaire Funds Democrat Causes And Marijuana Legalization. Peter
B. Lewis is owner of the Progressive Insurance Company and is one of
the nation's largest funders of left-wing organizations and groups dedicated
to removing President Bush from office this November [2004]. An expose in
The Boston Globe (9/21/2004) also describes Lewis as one of the largest
contributors to efforts to legalize marijuana. He has given $5 million
to the ACLU's drug policy litigation project and to other groups.
Kerry supporters resort to violence:
Editor's Note: Apparently
the Democrats, having run out of substantive arguments, are trying to affect the outcome
of the election by resorting to violence. Isn't there something in the Patriot Act
to address this kind of domestic terrorism? If these things were happening to
the offices of the Kerry/Edwards campaign, we'd never hear the end of it on television,
including, of course, comparisons to the Nazi "Brown Shirts".
Very recently some incidents of this sort have occurred at Democratic Party offices,
so now the press is starting to pay attention, but TV news reporters generally
lack adequate skepticism, and none of them seem to suspect what I suspect: I think
perhaps the attacks on Democratic Party offices are a red herring, which enables the Democrats
to retort with "See? They do it, too!"
Democrats gone
wild! Left-wing activists have escalated their campaign attacks to a seemingly unprecedented
level. We have gone from simple mischief to open-season malice. And the supposedly objective
reporters who are always so willing to connect the dots to expose the politics of hate are now whistling
past the smashed windows and flaming signs and bullet holes.
Home gets
trashed over political ideas. Stan Stafford of North Park didn't want to risk
any more trouble. So on Saturday, three days before the presidential election, he took
down the big Bush/Cheney yard signs that had dominated his North Park front yard. It didn't
matter. Vandals trashed his house sometime early yesterday morning [11/2/2004], splashing
red paint on his sidewalks, plants, garage and house.
Vandals Target
Two Locations. Political leaders say anger prompted vandals to target two
locations in Western New York, including GOP headquarters in downtown Buffalo.
Tires slashed
on 20 GOP vehicles, Milwaukee police report. The tires of 20 cars
and vans rented by the Republican Party to carry voters to the polls were slashed,
Milwaukee police said today [11/02/2004]. The rental cars were parked near
a GOP office. The final count was 27 tires slashed on 20 vehicles.
Democrats play
rough, opponents claim. Republicans say they are being heckled by Democrats who speed by
in their cars, and Bush-Cheney yard signs are either stolen or kicked over in the dead of night. And
with those types of rampant intimidation, there are few Burlingame residents willing to "out" themselves
as Republicans.
President
Bush's campaign office in Spokane burglarized, vandalized. Offices that house
President Bush's re-election campaign in Spokane were broken into and vandalized
last night [10/10/2004], the latest in a string of crimes at Republican offices across
the country.
Protestors Ransack Bush/Cheney
Headquarters In Orlando. A group of protestors stormed and then ransacked a Bush-Cheney
headquarters building in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday [10/5/2004], according to Local 6
News. Local 6 News reported that several people from the group of 100 Orlando
protestors face possible assault charges after the group forced their way inside the Republican
headquarters office.
Angry
Kerry Activists Lay Siege to Bush Office in St. Paul, Intimidate Voters. On
the same day that someone fired shots into the windows at the Bush/Cheney campaign headquarters
in Knoxville, Tennessee, angry Kerry supporters laid siege to the Bush headquarters in St. Paul
Minnesota.
Shots fired at Bush
Tennessee headquarters. An unknown gunman fired several shots into the Bearden,
Tenn., Bush-Cheney campaign office Tuesday [10/5/2004], WBIR-TV in Knoxville reported.
Kerry
should call off the thugs. We're beginning to see a pattern: The Bush-Cheney
headquarters in Orlando was attacked by a union mob. An Anti-Bush protestor attacks
GOP committee chairman in Gainesville. In Miami, more than 100 union protesters
stormed the Bush-Cheney campaign office and pushed volunteers inside. In Tampa, about
three dozen protesters crowded into the second-floor office of the local Bush-Cheney headquarters
where three elderly volunteers, two interns and a campaign staffer were working at the
time. Shots were fired into a GOP headquarters in Knoxville. In Madison, a Nazi
swastika was burned into a lawn near where Bush-Cheney signs were posted.
It's Time to
Act. Every election cycle, there are always reports of campaign workers stealing or
defacing signs. But something seriously disturbing is going on this year. There's been
an exponential number of reports of signs not just stolen, but burned, defaced with swastikas, and
torn down by pistol-packing angry teenagers.
Bush Campaign Headquarters
Burglarized. Three laptop computers containing campaign plans were stolen overnight
from the Bush-Cheney state headquarters office, Republican officials said Friday [10/01/2004].
Reverse
Hate Speech: The vandals who tried to set fire to GOP offices have been euphemistically
dubbed by online anarchists as the "Raleigh 3." These online supporters say that these
alleged criminals are "misunderstood." Instead of having engaged in criminal activity, they
say, they were involved in civil disobedience.
More Hollywood
Hate for Kerry to Ignore: Beat "Madman" Bush. The pro-Kerry outfit
MoveOn has teamed with Hollywood heavyweights including Rob Reiner, Matt Damon,
Kevin Bacon, Scarlett Johansson, John Sayles, Ed Asner, Margaret Cho and Al Franken
to unleash Bush-bashing ads (10 of them, according to the
Associated Press; 14, according to USA Today) for TV and the Internet.
The
company he keeps: Senator John Kerry has recently accumulated
several strange, puzzling and troubling associations that could — and
probably should — cause voters to take a second look before
voting for the senator this fall. For example, Whoopi Goldberg,
Al Gore, Michael Moore, "Sandy" Berger and Moveon.org
Gays
to gain in Kerry White House. A parade of Democratic leaders
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