Post by MEforPresident on Oct 4, 2004 11:04:31 GMT 2
While I'm sick of talking about the guy, I once again feel the need to explain why he is not worth our votes. Many people,.specifically liberals, think this election is so important. They're right. But their conclusions are wrong. While Bush may have some issues, he doesn't hold a candle to John Kerry.
1. Kerry was an anti-war protester.
I would no more want an anti-war protester to run our military than to let Michael Jackson run a boy's orphanage.
Not only was he an anti-war protester, he actively worked to discredit the US effort in Vietnam by making outrageous and unproven claims to congress and on television. He persisted in these false claims long afterward, saying he was in Cambodia on a secret mission, when no such thing ever happened.
The upshot of his anti-war stance is he enabled the North Vietnamese to subjugate the south. He then turned around and blocked a bill to link US aid to Vietnam to their Human Rights record. So, not only did he help the North Vietnamese take over the South, he stood in the way of the US holding them accountable for their human rights abuses.
He also supported another repressive communist regime in the 80s Using the excuse that he didn't want the US to make the same mistakes they made in Vietnam. What's that, letting the Communists win?.
[Amended 8/19] Kerry was also a radical protestor who wrote an anti-war book then pulled it at the last minute when he realized how it might ruin his political future. He also attended radical meetings where political assassinations were discussed.
2. He's favored by Eurocrats.
He's repeatedly stated that "world leaders" (aka Eurocrats) would rather have him President than Bush. Being favored by incompetent bureaucrats who are ruining their own economies and who subscribe to crackpot notions like the Kyoto Accords and GM Crop hysteria, is hardly a positive.
Kerry seems eager for the US to be liked by creeps like Chriac. Ain't gonna happen, even if he details their car.
Europe is not exactly on our side, anyway. After we spent trillions of dollars in aid to help their reconstruction after the two world wars they started, after spending trillions of dollars to protect them from the Soviets during the cold war, and after losing many thousands of soldiers lives fighting to free their people from the Nazis and others, the Eurocrats only see us as "dangerous" and competitors who must be boxed in and minimized.
Only the UK has been a stalwart ally of ours. And they're being sucked into the EU, so who knows how much longer that will last.
If Kerry is truly favored by the Eurocrats, that is not something we should feel comfortable with. The Eurocrats want to diminish US power in the world. Do you really think the Kyoto accords are just about global warming? It would have next to no effect other than to bankrupt the US. No wonder they Europeans are so interested in seeing it pass.
3. He has all the wrong friends and allies.
Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter, Tom Harkin, Al Sharpton, the Clintons, a plethora of dimwitted celebrities.
Need I continue? They all endorse Kerry. What does that tell you (aside from them being Democrats)?
4. He has a trial lawyer as a running mate.
John Edwards made a fortune suing doctors and hospitals into the stone age, based on junk science and touchy freely stories about what babies would think if they had been born. Frivolous malpractice lawsuits have been shutting down hospitals and driving up health care costs to obscene levels. Many hospitals won't do birthing anymore because of lawsuits.
Why this is relevant is the Democrats are heavily supported by the Trial Lawyers association. And the Democrats have threatened massive lawsuits if the election is close again, and they could tied up the election for a long time. They also threatened to sue TV stations that air political ads they don't like who attack Kerry.
This is only a preview of what a Kerry administration would be like. Under Clinton we saw lots of government shakedowns of corporations like the Tobacco Industry and Microsoft. When the Democrat's are in power, they'll get back into business trying to milk the corporate cow for all its worth.
All those platitudes Kerry is uttering about saving American jobs will ring hollow when more companies have to cut back on hiring because of the expense of doing business in the US. Why are these companies setting up elsewhere, anyway? The greed of politicians and trial lawyers have made America too expensive for many companies to operate here.
5. He's a liar.
He was in Cambodia during the Vietnam war? No he wasn't. After repeating this lie over and over he's now saying he was "near" Cambodia, but he's sure he was there sometime. The problem is, he kept telling the Cambodia story until people caught him in a lie. Liars change their story when they're caught.
And let's not forget he lied in order to trash the government. The very government he wants to run.
Kerry also regularly lies about the state of the economy, comparing it to the Great Depression, or more recently, about stem cell research.
Bush critics call the president a liar, but he doesn't change his story and he's been vindicated time and again. Not so, Kerry.
6. He's an unprincipled opportunist
Kerry got out of the military early to run for congress. When his war hero approach didn't play to the crowds in his native Mass, he turned into a anti-war protester. He supported the war on Saddam until he saw how successful Howard Dean became early in the Democrat primaries, so he suddenly changed his tune and became (look out!) an anti-war candidate who waffled on his support of the war and didn't vote to pay for the troops much needed gear. But now that Dean has been diminished and looking strong is tantamount to getting elected, he suddenly says he would have invaded Iraq anyway, WMDs or not.
Kerry has a long record in his home state of voting to appease his left wing constituents, yet he tries to pass himself off as a moderate. A war hero, even. Yet this war hero has worked to undermine our military since he got back from Vietnam. By first testifying against us during the Vietnam war, voting against intelligence and military spending, even after the first World Trade Center bombing. And voting against appropriations to pay for our war in Iraq.
7. He'd empower leftist Democrats
Aside from Trial lawyers, Kerry is good buddies with Ted Kennedy, one of the most extreme lefties in the Democrat party. All indications is that he would appoint more left wing judges and make left wing policy decisions. After 8 years of Clinton we've seen what kind of societal mess we're in with moral relativism being rampant for too many years. More of the same is not going to help things. And more left wing activists judges is not going to help solve a lot of important issues we're having in our society right now.
[Amended 8/19] He also has the potential to appoint three new supreme court justices if he gets elected, which would throw the balance of power in the supereme court (which is pretty even right now) to the left. The nany state is bad enough as it is without the supreme court being thrown to those lovers of government intrusion in people's lives.
8. His stated War on Terror policies are clearly unworkable.
He claims he can solve our involment in Iraq by getting Europeans to replace our troops. Ain't gonna happen. Europeans are opposed to getting involved in Iraq, almost to the same degree as they opposed spending money to protect themselves against the Soviets in the Cold War. Why get involved when America is willing to do it for you?
They've been getting mostly a free ride off the Americans for almost 100 years now. And Kerry seems to think he can pull our troops out of Iraq in six months, while he's opposed to pulling our troops out of countries where they're no longer needed.
This guy reminds me a little of Jimmy Carter, who was all smiles when he ran for president, and promised to bring honor to the White House. Once he was elected, his face became sour and the country went through an extreme down period where public morale was at an all time low. Carter's wimpy polices made the US look ineffective and weak around the world and encouraged terrorists all over the place.
In a time like this, we don't need another weak, waffling prevaricator for president.
UPDATE: 9 - Kerry is no leader.
He's been in the senate 20 years and has two bills with his name on them. That's an average of a bill a decade. Either he's an underachiever or he like to ride on people's coat tails (see his marriage). A leader would champion issues he cared about and get those bills through, or do his best to try. Kerry's career is lackluster and highlighted by the number of times he's skipped work.
If I had a job that paid as much as his, only had to do one thing every ten years and showed up whenever I felt like it, why, hell...why would I want to change it?
UPDATE: The Washington Times explains why Kerry's Vietnam record matters.
11. Gun Fraud - He claims to support gun ownership for hunting. That's gun grabber code for "We're going to let hunters have approved hunting rifles, under control of new laws we'll try to pass. But we decide which guns and where they can be kept". This is one of the worse things about the Democrats in my mind. They really don't respect the bill of rights. When the second amendment says: "...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." that's pretty damn clear. I don't trust anyone who uses code words when it comes to my civil rights.
1. Kerry was an anti-war protester.
I would no more want an anti-war protester to run our military than to let Michael Jackson run a boy's orphanage.
Not only was he an anti-war protester, he actively worked to discredit the US effort in Vietnam by making outrageous and unproven claims to congress and on television. He persisted in these false claims long afterward, saying he was in Cambodia on a secret mission, when no such thing ever happened.
The upshot of his anti-war stance is he enabled the North Vietnamese to subjugate the south. He then turned around and blocked a bill to link US aid to Vietnam to their Human Rights record. So, not only did he help the North Vietnamese take over the South, he stood in the way of the US holding them accountable for their human rights abuses.
He also supported another repressive communist regime in the 80s Using the excuse that he didn't want the US to make the same mistakes they made in Vietnam. What's that, letting the Communists win?.
[Amended 8/19] Kerry was also a radical protestor who wrote an anti-war book then pulled it at the last minute when he realized how it might ruin his political future. He also attended radical meetings where political assassinations were discussed.
2. He's favored by Eurocrats.
He's repeatedly stated that "world leaders" (aka Eurocrats) would rather have him President than Bush. Being favored by incompetent bureaucrats who are ruining their own economies and who subscribe to crackpot notions like the Kyoto Accords and GM Crop hysteria, is hardly a positive.
Kerry seems eager for the US to be liked by creeps like Chriac. Ain't gonna happen, even if he details their car.
Europe is not exactly on our side, anyway. After we spent trillions of dollars in aid to help their reconstruction after the two world wars they started, after spending trillions of dollars to protect them from the Soviets during the cold war, and after losing many thousands of soldiers lives fighting to free their people from the Nazis and others, the Eurocrats only see us as "dangerous" and competitors who must be boxed in and minimized.
Only the UK has been a stalwart ally of ours. And they're being sucked into the EU, so who knows how much longer that will last.
If Kerry is truly favored by the Eurocrats, that is not something we should feel comfortable with. The Eurocrats want to diminish US power in the world. Do you really think the Kyoto accords are just about global warming? It would have next to no effect other than to bankrupt the US. No wonder they Europeans are so interested in seeing it pass.
3. He has all the wrong friends and allies.
Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter, Tom Harkin, Al Sharpton, the Clintons, a plethora of dimwitted celebrities.
Need I continue? They all endorse Kerry. What does that tell you (aside from them being Democrats)?
4. He has a trial lawyer as a running mate.
John Edwards made a fortune suing doctors and hospitals into the stone age, based on junk science and touchy freely stories about what babies would think if they had been born. Frivolous malpractice lawsuits have been shutting down hospitals and driving up health care costs to obscene levels. Many hospitals won't do birthing anymore because of lawsuits.
Why this is relevant is the Democrats are heavily supported by the Trial Lawyers association. And the Democrats have threatened massive lawsuits if the election is close again, and they could tied up the election for a long time. They also threatened to sue TV stations that air political ads they don't like who attack Kerry.
This is only a preview of what a Kerry administration would be like. Under Clinton we saw lots of government shakedowns of corporations like the Tobacco Industry and Microsoft. When the Democrat's are in power, they'll get back into business trying to milk the corporate cow for all its worth.
All those platitudes Kerry is uttering about saving American jobs will ring hollow when more companies have to cut back on hiring because of the expense of doing business in the US. Why are these companies setting up elsewhere, anyway? The greed of politicians and trial lawyers have made America too expensive for many companies to operate here.
5. He's a liar.
He was in Cambodia during the Vietnam war? No he wasn't. After repeating this lie over and over he's now saying he was "near" Cambodia, but he's sure he was there sometime. The problem is, he kept telling the Cambodia story until people caught him in a lie. Liars change their story when they're caught.
And let's not forget he lied in order to trash the government. The very government he wants to run.
Kerry also regularly lies about the state of the economy, comparing it to the Great Depression, or more recently, about stem cell research.
Bush critics call the president a liar, but he doesn't change his story and he's been vindicated time and again. Not so, Kerry.
6. He's an unprincipled opportunist
Kerry got out of the military early to run for congress. When his war hero approach didn't play to the crowds in his native Mass, he turned into a anti-war protester. He supported the war on Saddam until he saw how successful Howard Dean became early in the Democrat primaries, so he suddenly changed his tune and became (look out!) an anti-war candidate who waffled on his support of the war and didn't vote to pay for the troops much needed gear. But now that Dean has been diminished and looking strong is tantamount to getting elected, he suddenly says he would have invaded Iraq anyway, WMDs or not.
Kerry has a long record in his home state of voting to appease his left wing constituents, yet he tries to pass himself off as a moderate. A war hero, even. Yet this war hero has worked to undermine our military since he got back from Vietnam. By first testifying against us during the Vietnam war, voting against intelligence and military spending, even after the first World Trade Center bombing. And voting against appropriations to pay for our war in Iraq.
7. He'd empower leftist Democrats
Aside from Trial lawyers, Kerry is good buddies with Ted Kennedy, one of the most extreme lefties in the Democrat party. All indications is that he would appoint more left wing judges and make left wing policy decisions. After 8 years of Clinton we've seen what kind of societal mess we're in with moral relativism being rampant for too many years. More of the same is not going to help things. And more left wing activists judges is not going to help solve a lot of important issues we're having in our society right now.
[Amended 8/19] He also has the potential to appoint three new supreme court justices if he gets elected, which would throw the balance of power in the supereme court (which is pretty even right now) to the left. The nany state is bad enough as it is without the supreme court being thrown to those lovers of government intrusion in people's lives.
8. His stated War on Terror policies are clearly unworkable.
He claims he can solve our involment in Iraq by getting Europeans to replace our troops. Ain't gonna happen. Europeans are opposed to getting involved in Iraq, almost to the same degree as they opposed spending money to protect themselves against the Soviets in the Cold War. Why get involved when America is willing to do it for you?
They've been getting mostly a free ride off the Americans for almost 100 years now. And Kerry seems to think he can pull our troops out of Iraq in six months, while he's opposed to pulling our troops out of countries where they're no longer needed.
This guy reminds me a little of Jimmy Carter, who was all smiles when he ran for president, and promised to bring honor to the White House. Once he was elected, his face became sour and the country went through an extreme down period where public morale was at an all time low. Carter's wimpy polices made the US look ineffective and weak around the world and encouraged terrorists all over the place.
In a time like this, we don't need another weak, waffling prevaricator for president.
UPDATE: 9 - Kerry is no leader.
He's been in the senate 20 years and has two bills with his name on them. That's an average of a bill a decade. Either he's an underachiever or he like to ride on people's coat tails (see his marriage). A leader would champion issues he cared about and get those bills through, or do his best to try. Kerry's career is lackluster and highlighted by the number of times he's skipped work.
If I had a job that paid as much as his, only had to do one thing every ten years and showed up whenever I felt like it, why, hell...why would I want to change it?
UPDATE: The Washington Times explains why Kerry's Vietnam record matters.
11. Gun Fraud - He claims to support gun ownership for hunting. That's gun grabber code for "We're going to let hunters have approved hunting rifles, under control of new laws we'll try to pass. But we decide which guns and where they can be kept". This is one of the worse things about the Democrats in my mind. They really don't respect the bill of rights. When the second amendment says: "...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." that's pretty damn clear. I don't trust anyone who uses code words when it comes to my civil rights.
