JUST LOOK AT THE COMPANY KERRY KEEPS
Let's accept the notion that John Kerry could handle the presidency. Let's accept the notion that he's a good guy, not really a liberal--almost what you might call a Republican.
Nonetheless, I cannot in good conscience vote for the man, simply for the company he keeps.
I know we shouldn't judge people on that basis--unless we are law enforcement officers. Police and FBI agents and detectives and those who are standing between evil and ordinary people very often find themselves having to do just that. If you hang out with criminals, the cop's radar perks up and focuses on you. What may seem like a coincidental meeting often turns out to be a solid connection.
And who are John Kerry's friends? I'm not talking about his so-called "Band of Brothers"--a bunch of vets who served with him in Vietnam, never saw him again until he decided to run for president, and now follow him everywhere like puppies. I'm not even talking about his main squeeze, John Edwards, whose hail-fellow-well-met motivational seminar friendliness only makes the physical closeness of the two even more creepy.
No, I am speaking of his Hollywood pals, his international buddies, and the legions of screaming, WTO-protesting wackos that trail in his wake and desire nothing more in the world than to remove President Bush from office, by any means necessary.
John Kerry and John Edwards are constantly harping on this weird idea that they have some magical psychological rapport with foreigners that will enable them to persuade world leaders to act outside their interest and against their will to support the US under a Kerry Administration. Remember, the King of All Political Media, Bill Clinton, was unable to do any of that, resulting in the rest of the world nurturing legions of terrorists while Jamie Gorelick built an impenetrable wall between the CIA and all the information they needed to know what was going on.
And even if they could, we must wonder why.
Why would the French, the Germans, the Russians suddenly decide to throw their lot in with us, after losing all that terrific oil-for-food program money? Why would they want a new president?
Answer: because they have been bested by President Bush, and they don't like it. Because they hope to be able to pick up where they left off, exploiting the Iraqi people and ripping off all the peoples of the world through the corrupt bureaucrats at the U.N.
Who hates George Bush?
Easy. Michael Moore, Al Franken, Jeanene Garafolo, Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, Barbara Streisand, and their crowd. Also, Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, Al Sharpton, Al Gore, and theirs. Add to that the populations of France, Spain, and much of Great Britain. And--most troublesome of all--the mullahs in Iran, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Moqtada alSadr, North Korean nutcase Kim Jong Il, the government of the Sudan, the government of Syria, Yasser Arafat, Hezbolla, Hamas, and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
These are not people and nations whose respect I want. These are people whose opinions I do not respect (and they return the favor) and nations who pose a danger to every American, red and blue, liberal and conservative, from sea to shining sea. These are entertainers who have no respect for the presidency, no taste, and no class. They are politicians whose ideas are the remnants of ages long past and administrations of failure. They are nations where slavery (sexual and otherwise) is practiced, where children are exploited, where heads and hands are cut off and tongues cut out as routine punishment, where women are subjugated, where justice has no meaning and revenge no limits.
I cannot imagine why we would want to elect the president they think we should have.
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