Posted on 10/22/2004 8:03:05 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The Puppet Running for President October 22, 2004 - With any luck, this will be the last article I have to write about John Kerry, ever. Hopefully, in two weeks he will be resuming his role as an unsuccessful do-nothing liberal Massachusetts Senator with a nutcase for a wife and a face that only a Botox-technician could love - and in Mass., your tenth injection is always free. While a Kerry Presidency could have its potential editorial-writing upside ("I signed the bill before I vetoed it, no wait"), it surely isn't something to otherwise look forward to. Personally, I'll take the guy who will keep the terrorists dead, keep my taxes low, and who actually comes from planet Earth.
As a result of fully lacking both personality and emotion but having the majestic ability to bore the world to death with statistics, Kerry unanimously won the title of becoming the most "presidential" presidential candidate ever. By these standards, my 9th grade Algebra teacher is the second most presidential person in the world. It does not mean she is ready to fight terrorism.
But, alas, John Kerry is ready to fight terrorism, he tells us almost daily. Despite constantly telling Bush he was wrong for going after and killing terrorists without approval from the Eiffel Tower elites, Kerry insists he will "hunt down and kill the terrorists wherever they are." Of course, he also admits that is foreign policy revolves around threatening force, and even voting for it, but never using it. Don't do it Mr. Terrorist, I will come and get you. Ok buddy, that's bomb number two you are making me angry. You see this army I'm going to call them. Mr. Terrorist, I'm serious this time, I'm going to send in the Marines. Stop it, why are you laughing at me?
As for domestic policy, Kerry's foresight is very limited. When asked a question about the future of Social Security and the inevitable collapse of the system as it is currently being run, Kerry said that "if later on after a period of time we find that Social Security is in trouble, we'll pull together the top experts of the country." Find out later on? Currently, estimates expect that the yearly Social Security outputs will be more than the Social Security inputs by 2018. At this point, the Treasury will have to begin repaying the money it borrowed from Social Security, leaving shortfalls elsewhere, and which will be exhausted a few decades later as well. Luckily for Kerry, he would no longer be president when he finds that "Social Security is in trouble."
Also according to John Kerry in the debates, he never votes to raises taxes. When Bush brought up Kerry's votes in the Senate that either raised taxes or denied tax cuts, he responded by saying that "anybody can play with these votes. Everybody knows that." And in this next sentence, I will prove it, "I have voted or supported tax cuts over 600 times." The only time Kerry will support tax hikes is when it is for the "wealthiest of Americans" who deserve no economic equality under the law, because no matter how much they pay they mysteriously never pay their "fair share."
So the top 1% pays on average (after all the loopholes) an average tax rate of 27.5%, the top 5% pays 23.7%, the bottom 50% pays under 5%, and Teresa Heinz-Ketchup-Kerry pays a tax rate of 12.8%. But lets not get into details. Only through the powers of liberalism can a person with a tax bill in excess of $1 million a year not be paying a "fair share" and a person who pays nothing have "too much of a burden."
In a question about abortion, he said he religiously opposes but politically supports fetus slaughtering based on the premise that politicians should not transfer their "faith in any official way to other people." As he explained it a few sentences later, it is his strong Catholic faith that makes him fight against poverty, to clean up the environment, and to protect this earth. Mysteriously, in order to do any of these things he has to raise taxes, pass laws, and institute other forms of coercive action that would undoubtedly be considered official. Don't look at me, God made me raise your taxes.
John Kerry lacks all the tools needed to lead a free country (a gulag on the other hand). He exists only for himself and his political power and gain. His positions are based not on conviction, but political convenience. He's willing to throw a few people under the bus so long as the people riding on the bus will vote for him (probably a bus in Florida, heading to the polls, with the slogan: "Vote Early, Vote Often, Free Cigarettes"). He is wrong on foreign policy, wrong on domestic policy, and wrong on taxes. But then, at least he looks presidential.
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