John Kerry will not be president

John Kerry will not be president

He may not even get the Democrat nomination, if he continues to melt down. Actually, from what I have read in the papers and on the 'net, "meltdown" might be a good way to describe his moral standards, his idea of "right" and "wrong".

Like ketchup over french fries, Kerry's conscience seems to conform to whatever support it finds. As an ambitious young man, he sees opportunities for political advancement (and possesses the financial wherewithal) by doing a short stint in Vietnam, then flipflopping and getting up close and personal with Jane Fonda.

Look at this guy's career, his income tax return (separate from his extraordinarily wealthy wife - wasn't it the Democrats who wanted to clean up campaign financing? - as opposed to the Bushes, who file jointly), his voting record. Particularly at his voting record.

The common theme in all of it is, what can it do to get John Kerry more power? That's it. Everything else is just a means to that end. Will a vote one particular way give him a bigger bloc of votes than it will lose him? Guess which way he votes. Right, wrong, the way he voted last week, the way he would vote next week, that doesn't matter, it's all about the now and getting and keeping power.

Up here in Canada we have had our share of Prime Ministers like that. We crossed that line long ago, when Pierre Trudeau was first elected over Robert Stanfield. All style, no substance, he charmed the baby boomers with his brashness and sophistication. Before he was elected, the Canadian dollar was worth $1.05US, and our debt was negligible. Since then our per capita national debt has ballooned by almost 1500 percent and our "tax freedom day" is in late June. There is also no real long-term plan to pay off the national debt.

Note that all this occured in Canada while the military was gutted. It wasn't a guns'n'butter situation, it was butter'n'more butter. That's what style over substance buys you.

John Kerry stands for whatever is good for John Kerry at the moment, whatever will make him look good as a politician (as opposed to actually being a good politician). Whatever way the wind blows, that's the way his sails will be furled.

Of course, it may yet not come down to Bush vs. Kerry come November. If Kerry is flustered to the point of incoherence by the hardball questions from Good Morning America, how would he handle Yassir Arafat? or Putin?

If the Democrats want to have any chance at all in November, they must do two things:
1) ditch John Kerry; replace with a guy with some spine
2) stop opposing the war in Iraq; instead, oppose the Department of Homeland Security. If they won, the Dems would for the forseeable future continue with the current policy in Iraq. Opposing the war merely to appear to be in opposition to Bush just to try to get more votes only divides the country. Oppose instead the draconian abridgement of the opportunity to exercise rights in the USA due to Homeland Security; it will strike a chord with voters, as they have far more personal exposure to HS than they do with terrorists. (note the terror alert level at left, currently "Bert")