From Thomas Sowell at the Washington Times (please go and read all of his books, he's worth reading):
Sometimes little things can tell you about big things. While Sen. John Kerry and his running-mate Sen. John Edwards were recently photographed at lunchtime at Wendy's, to show what regular guys they are, their real lunch was from a local yacht club, which is more their speed in real life. There is nothing wrong with eating lunch from or at a yacht club. What is wrong is being phony — and thinking the American people need to be conned. ... These guys are on the far left of a liberal party. What does that mean in concrete terms? Among other things, it means racial quotas, higher taxes, weakening the military, and — perhaps most significant of all — appointing liberal judges who will spend decades finding reasons to turn criminals loose and allowing frivolous lawsuits that drive up prices to consumers and destroy businesses and jobs. You can't run on that platform and win a national election. Moreover, you cannot frankly state the underlying assumptions of the liberal vision of the world, such as the notion the liberal anointed need to impose their superior vision on the masses. Politically, you have to pretend to be one of the people, even though the whole basis of your vision is that you are vastly superior to them. Even when you are a pompous elitist who looks down on the average American, you have to project a political image as a regular guy by being photographed with a baseball bat or a hunting rifle — or eating at Wendy's.Don't forget that Kerry also brought up his Vietnam service during the democratic party nomination process, and now that much of it is turning out to be bogus, he is claiming that no one has the right to question that record. Well, why'd you bring it up then? Didn't think the guys you served with would point out that they think you're a dickless wonder? That you served for only four months? That you bugged out at that time, and pressed hard to get out, after your three purple hearts? And that at least one of those wounds may have been self inflicted? That the other two might have been for largely less serious wounds? That you went home to America and promtly slandered the entire U.S Army? Kerry says the Swiftboat Vets - men he served with - are Republican stooges. Really John? All 200 plus of them? All of them members of a vast, right wing conspiracy? The Wendy's antics are par for the course for Kerry. He claims to be Catholic, and makes a big to do about taking communion with as many press members present as possible. That action is irreconcilable with claiming, as Kerry has, that abortion is murder, but it is murder that must be allowed. He has mumbled something about how his position is "difficult to explain," which to me means he does not think he can or needs to explain it to peasants, or to anyone, really. Kerry is complete loser and the Wendy's fiasco is only the tip of the iceberg. American politics needs two viable parties for the system to work, and at the moment it has only one. It suprises me that Bush and Kerry are even close in the polls, but it is early yet. Most voters have not even tuned in. I don't think Kerry will fare well when they do. At the moment he has bouancy from the rabid anti Bush crowd, the kind that thinks paper mache heads at rallies are just the coolest. It saddens me that here in Canada we have been stuck with various John Kerrys, and have been for many years. The latest one goes by the name Paul Martin.
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