NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH DAN RATHER

HERE'S MY LARRY KING IMPRESSION

So now we know. Democrats fake both their documentaries AND their documents.

John Kerry likes to compare Iraq to Vietnam. We've just had our 1000th (watch that "th"; it might be forged) casualty. At this rate, to be Vietnam the war has to last more than 50 years.

Be sure to read frontpagemag's expose on Mrs. Kerry's charitable activities.

If I had to place a bet today (and I don't gamble), I would predict a landslide for President Bush (Kerry will probably keep Massachusetts, DC, and Vermont). Once the evangelical vote mobilizes in the last few weeks of the campaign, Kerry is toast. Burned toast.

Why hasn't anyone in the media noticed that the DVD of Passion of the Christ is the number one DVD on Amazon and sold 9 million copies in its first 2 weeks?

If Kerry has some kind of voodoo power to get "allies" (by the way, aren't "allies" supposed to be on our side?) to help us, why doesn't he volunteer his services and go talk to them now? Wouldn't that be more statesmanlike than just calling President Bush names?

Considering all that Prime Minister Allawi has been through and how tough he seems to be--not to mention the resources he has the potential to control in the Middle East as either friend or foe to the US--I would stop sniping at him if I were Kerry.

Where's John Edwards these days? It must be seminar season at the Ramada or something (am I the only one eerily reminded of a no-money-down real estate crook when he talks?)

Why does Teresa H. Kerry want to be First Lady of a nation full of "scumbags," "liars," and "idiots" who have already elected a president and vice-president who are "unpatriotic"? Is there some law in France that keeps Kerry off THEIR ticket?

The Democrats keep screeching about losing 1,000 men in a year in Iraq (over a year actually). But the Union Army lost that many in some single battles of the Civil War (and so did the Confederates). More are murdered in a year in New York or L.A. or Chicago. Four times that many innocent lives are taken in abortion EVERY DAY. And they don't have body armor to protect them, either.

Why should government health care cover people up to 300% of the poverty level, as Kerry wants to do? Shouldn't 300% of the poverty level be considered rich? How far above poverty do Democrats have to get before they think they can make it on their own?

Isn't it funny that pro-Bush "negative" ads (Swift Boat vets excepted) attack Senator Kerry's record, political statements, and issue positions, while anti-Bush "negative" ads call him and the vice-president criminals, liars, racists, and Nazis? When President Bush ran a soft-focus positive ad with a small image of 9/11, the Democrats screamed at that, too. I think they will only be happy when the only sound they hear from the GOP is the President intoning "I'm George Bush, and I approved this message" before a Kerry commercial.

Why are cultural issues that bring people to the polls in great number--like abortion, gay marriage, and gun control--considered "wedge" issues, while issues that excite the media and the Democrats--like health care, social security, and the environment--are "real" issues? When you break it down, "health care" and "social "security" are programs, not issues. "The environment" is a policy target, not an issue. An "issue" is a question of preference, on which there are two sides. No one is "against" the environment. No one "opposes" health care. If the Democrats were to honestly talk about issues, they would have to re-frame their topics. For example, to make "health care" an issue, they have to specify "government-paid" or "single-payer" health care. "Privatization" of social security is an issue.

I love watching Donald Rumsfeld testify before Senate committees. (Paraphrased) "Are things bad in 3 provinces? Sure, they are! Can they get better? Of course! Does negative rumor-mongering hurt the war effort? Of course! Senator, I disagree with the very premise of your question. The president is not a lying weasel bent on re-introducing the draft, and his mother did not wear army boots!"

Can we elect Allawi to something here? He seems to be a good, tough guy. He might be able to whip some of these blue states into shape.

Someone should search Democratic statements for the phrase "sugar coat" over the past few years prior to the forgery of the CBS documents. Then you'd have your culprit.

It amuses me when the Democrats claim that they are going to fight the war "smarter" when they don't want to fight the war at all. I get the feeling "smarter" means "on paper, from a think tank at Harvard." I have no idea what "more sensitive" could possibly have meant.

I noticed something the other day. Last weekend, C-SPAN was following Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, walking around surveying hurricane-related damage. Where was Trent Lott? Home in Mississippi, sending folks from there over to help Sessions and the people of Alabama. But where, I wondered, was North Carolina Senator John Edwards? Why, he was rampaging through battleground states like Ohio and Iowa! What a great example of constituent service. If I were a North Carolinian, I would be fed up with this self-serving politician, and I would want to know why he couldn’t bother to show up in his own storm-ravaged state to check on his own people. Some family values he's got.

Speaking of family values, have you noticed that after a brief roll-out of the notion that Republicans don't have a monopoly on values and that Democrat "issues" and "programs" ARE American values--you haven't heard word one on it again? I guess the family values thing didn't go over. So, since it was a gimmick to begin with, they've pitched it in the trash and (forgive the expression) moved on.

My, we live in interesting times.