We are not sure exactly what one has to do, in these days of moral ablation, to disqualify oneself from running for elective office. Posted on 03/20/2004 9:29:25 AM PST by johnqueuepublic
March 19, 2004 - by William A. Mayer
We are not sure exactly what one has to do, in these days of moral ablation, to disqualify oneself from running for elective office.
The Clinton years notwithstanding, there have always been parameters within which national candidates must comport themselves - certain minimum standards that even prospective politicians might reasonably meet.
This year, however is very different.
It’s quite clear that the Democrat Party is busted - a sprung watch - beyond repair. The nominative process that we find ourselves within, clearly demonstrates this.
That a bizarre, snarling, hate filled candidate of the diminutive stature of Howard Dean was almost anointed - as if deemed by heavenly hosts perched upon excelsior clouds - is reason enough to be suspect of the health of the party.
Yet on Dean’s heels comes an even more troubling individual who surfaced in the carnage of the media’s frenzy to de-elect Howie.
That individual is of course, John Forbes Kerry.
John Forbes Kerry.
Roll those words around in your mouth and what do you get?
You get a craggy - almost gaunt looking, but virile - New Englander.
You get a Skull & Crossbones Yalie, a war hero and the most liberal member of the United States Senate.
You get a guy who says he can speak for the little guy, but whose personal fortune is about $750 million and whose cash-cow wifey’s company outsources 6 out of 7 of its jobs to Third World dung heaps.
One minor complication, however…John Forbes Kerry is a domestic terrorist.
That's not a typo.
John Forbes Kerry is a domestic terrorist.
In large part due to New York’s real newspaper of record - the Sun - and their award winning journalist - Thomas Lipscomb - the true story of Kerry’s membership in the radical revolutionary group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, has finally seen the light of day.
While Kerry was the national spokesman for VVAW [1970-1971] the group coldly discussed a plot to invade the capital building and then assassinate pro-war United States Senators. This was nothing less than a plan to violently overthrow the lawful government of the United States.
“My plan was that on the last day we would go into the [congressional] offices we would schedule the most hardcore hawks for last — and we would shoot them all...I was serious." Scott Camil, VVAW
From one of the New York Sun's series of articles:
“…Mr. Nicosia also read quotes from FBI surveillance documents he obtained under the Freedom of Information Act as he was preparing his 2001 book, “Home to War."
“My evidence is incontrovertible. He was there," Mr. Nicosia said in an interview yesterday. “There’s no way that five or six agents saw his ghost there," said the historian, who lives in Marin County, north of San Francisco.
Mr. Nicosia said that the records show Mr. Kerry resigned from the group on the third day of the meeting, following discussion of the assassination plan and an argument between Mr. Kerry and another VVAW national coordinator, Al Hubbard.
Reading from an FBI informant report, Mr. Nicosia said, “John Kerry at a national Vietnam Veterans Against the War meeting appeared and announced to those present that he resigned for personal reasons but said he would be able to speak for VVAW " at future events." – Josh Gerstein, New York Sun - March 19, 2004
Please note that even Kerry’s “resignation" from the group was a self-serving act of convenience not conscience, only driven by Kerry’s desire to run for political office.
It's beyond comprehension that after attending at least one meeting where an active and serious assassination plan was discussed, Kerry was still willing to be their spokesman - anything that would get him media face-time.
Kerry has lied about his VVAW experience and his “anti-war" activities for over 30 years. His campaign has only now come clean because the evidence arrayed against him includes at least 6 different eye-witnesses and the testimony of FBI undercover agents who were also at those meetings.
Set against the realities of the war on terror, if holding a leadership position in the VVAW and his participation in discussions about assassinating United States Senators is not grounds for barring John Forbes Kerry from ever seeking elective office, we can’t imagine what is.
Kerry has never publicly rejected the VVAW, he has never apologized for his role as the organization's official spokesman nor has he rejected its terrorist agenda.
John Forbes Kerry is so monstrously ego-driven, so reckless, so lacking in veracity, judgment and temperament, that his candidacy should be rejected outright. If it proceeds it will be the final nail in the coffin of the Democrat Party, a party that will be crushed at the polls on November 2.
© 2004 William A. Mayer, PipeLineNews.org, all rights reserved
Those of us on the FReeper board see a lot more than most people do. If I relied on my local newspaper for political news, I would know very little about John Kerry's bad week. It's like it never happened.
Lucky for Kerry, he didn't lie to the FBI...he'd be in trouble...like Martha Stewart.
I agree.
Let's hope his penchant for reliving the past helps to bring about a well-deserved, self-induced, fall from grace.
Clinton was smart enough to talk about the future and about his plans to do great things for the downtrodden Americans.
Kerry keeps speaking about the past, thinking everyone will accept his version of it.
I don't know that the Democrats could have changed horses midwar, if Kerry hadn't provided the horses.
Kerry was the Democrats' bemedaled knight in shining armor, riding a white horse.
That's not a typo.
John Forbes Kerry is a domestic terrorist.
I believe that this post is beneath Right thinking Republicans and borders on the same type of hysteria from the nut jobs we see at DU.
This will only serve as ammunition for the DU'ers.
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