posted on October 6, 2004 12:45:12 PM
In order to cast a vote for John Kerry, you first have to believe he is fit to be commander in chief. Now some don't believe he is, namely 95% of all the decorated vets who served beside him in Vietnam, more than 70% of all living retired military personnel, and more than 80% of those serving in combat today. But what do they know?
Besides, as the Democratic Party points out at every opportunity, what right do these people (who spill their blood for our freedom) have to speak anyway, or--for that matter--to even vote?
In order to cast a vote for John Kerry, you also have to believe that he knows better how to secure America. Not only better than George W. Bush, but better than Condi Rice, Don Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Gen. Tommy Franks, Tom Ridge, Tommy Thompson, John McCain, Zell Miller, Rudy Giuliani, and again, more than 75% of all men and women who serve or ever have served in the military. A vote for John Kerry is a vote against all of these people and a whole lot more.
In order to cast a vote for John Kerry, you have to believe that he will do something in the next four years that he hasn't done once in the last twenty: be strong on defense and intelligence.
You have to believe that he will do something else in the next four years that he hasn't done in the last twenty: advance a single social program on health care, welfare, job creation, or economic growth.
In order to cast a vote for John Kerry, you have to completely dismiss his entire Senate record, a record that earned him the title of our nation's most liberal senator, and you have to believe that what he says now during this campaign means more than everything he has or has not done over the last 35 years in the public eye.
You have to believe that he can curtail the proliferation of nuclear weapons in third world countries. Of course, this means that you will have to overlook the fact that North Korea and Iran got them from China, who bought them from Bill Clinton via the healthy illegal campaign contributions to both Clinton and Kerry that landed Johnny Chung in prison.
You have to believe that Kerry will create jobs by taxing, regulating, and litigating employers throughout the country into bankruptcy, or until they move operations off shore to defend their assets.
In order to cast a vote for John Kerry, you have to look past the fact that manufacturing jobs have been leaving America since the end of the industrial revolution, and that the loss of manufacturing jobs accelerated in the late 1990's and beyond as a direct result of the China free trade agreement that has produced the single largest trade deficit in history. Then you have to ignore the minor fact that it was Clinton, Kerry, and the Democrats who made this deal that cost us those American jobs.
You have to believe that socialized medicine is the answer to the health care crisis in America, even though every country that has socialized medicine today offers substandard medical treatment, too little too late, and that all of these countries are going bankrupt while they do it.
In order to vote for John Kerry, you have to honestly believe that even though Kerry and every other public figure in the free world was singing the same tune as Bush concerning Iraq, that it was only George Bush who lied. Now, Kerry's statements over the years won't support this view, so you will have to ignore those, too.
You have to believe that Sandy ''Burglar'' stealing top secret documents from the national archive to benefit Kerry's campaign is not a big deal. That Dan Rather and Mary Mapes were perfectly justified in their attempt to promote forged government documents in a failed coup effort to smear a sitting president. That Joe Lockhart's phone conversation with Burkett, who most likely forged the documents himself, was an innocent coincidence that never broached the subject of Bush's Guard service.
Then you have to believe that Kerry means it when he talks about running special interests out of Washington, despite the fact that his entire campaign is underwritten by a handful of socialist billionaires via sleazy campaign finance tricks. and you have to believe that Bush is for special interests, despite the fact that more than 98% of his funding comes from individual average Americans within campaign finance laws, including McCain-Feingold.
You also have to believe that the world would be better off with Hussein still in power and that America should never act in its own security interests without France's approval. Because according to Kerry, he would NOT have removed Hussein from power, and he certainly would NOT have done it without full United Nations support, which was blocked by a single vote, France.
You have to believe Kerry that is strong on foreign policy, including humanitarian concerns. To believe this, you will have to forget that he voted against use of military power to eject Hussein from raping and plundering Kuwait in 1990, even after the United Nations approved it.
You will also have to believe that the 1.3 million Iraqi people who were either taken from their homes, shot, and bull dozed into mass graves, or starved to death during the oil-for-food scam operated by the United Nations, was more welcome to the Iraqi people than American liberators. That 10,000 dead enemy combatants, is worse than 1.3 million innocent civilians who died in the last ten years alone, more than 300,000 of which died in 1998 while we had Hussein ''contained.''
In short, you will have to believe all of these things, cast a vote against all of these people, in order to cast a vote for John Kerry. You will have to believe basically that everyone besides John Kerry is a liar. Most of all, you will have to believe in form over fact, in words over deeds.
In order to do this, you will have to continue sucking down the socialist liberal swill being shoveled down your throat daily by a mainstream media, which has lost the ability to even pretend to be fair, honest, or balanced.
If America really is at the point where a majority can meet these qualifications, God help us.
Those who can't meet these qualifications need to wake up and realize that too many in our country today can, and that not one of them will miss an opportunity to vote. America cannot afford for one decent American to miss voting this time around. Our very existence is at stake.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing
to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
posted on October 6, 2004 01:00:01 PM
EXCELLENT, excellent article...and hit the nail on so many true issues.
I laughed about You have to believe that he can curtail the proliferation of nuclear weapons in third world countries.
That's after we just heard he was offering them HELP to build a nuclear program...if they promised xxxx....yeah just like clinton did in N.Korea...and look where that got us. Why do they insist on repeating everything that has failed?
And Cheney really slammed kerry on his anti-intelligence, anti-military votes in his 20 years. Told everyone to look at his record...it's there for all to see. Very seldom did he not vote against them. And they think we'd want him as CIC in a war on terror....has to make most laugh-out-loud.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I will never submit America's national security to an international test. The use of troops to defend America must never be subject to a veto by countries like France. The President's job is not to take an international poll -- the President's job is to defend America." --President George W. Bush
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Re-elect President Bush
