Village Voice: John Kerry Must Go

[Walter]

Taken from the ultra left wing Village Voice

Mondo Washington
by James Ridgeway
JOHN KERRY MUST GO
Note to Democrats: it's not too late to draft someone—anyone—else
April 27th, 2004 11:45 AM

WASHINGTON, D.C.— With the air gushing out of John Kerry's balloon, it may be only a matter of time until political insiders in Washington face the dread reality that the junior senator from Massachusetts doesn't have what it takes to win and has got to go. As arrogant and out of it as the Democratic political establishment is, even these pols know the party's got to have someone to run against George Bush. They can't exactly expect the president to self-destruct into thin air.

With growing issues over his wealth (which makes fellow plutocrat Bush seem a charity case by comparison), the miasma over his medals and ribbons (or ribbons and medals), his uninspiring record in the Senate (yes war, no war), and wishy-washy efforts to mimic Bill Clinton's triangulation gimmickry (the protractor factor), Kerry sinks day by day. The pros all know that the candidate who starts each morning by having to explain himself is a goner.

What to do? Look for the Dem biggies, whoever they are these days, to sit down with the rich and arrogant presumptive nominee and try to persuade him to take a hike. Then they can return to business as usual—resurrecting John Edwards, who is still hanging around, or staging an open convention in Boston, or both.

If things proceed as they are, the dim-bulb Dem leaders are going to be very sorry they screwed Howard Dean.

[Philip]

Open letter to John Kerry

To be an American is something more than an aspiration or an idea. Americans have a right to be led by a fellow American, not by someone who received a good part of his education in a European country; by a drifter who lived in a boarding house. Americans have a right to choose a leader who does not chase after very rich women to satisfy his political hunger, or by a looser who cut classes to learn how to fly. An American leader should be something more than an adventure seeker. A leader should actually convey a sense of core values and have roots ... not contradict himself at every possible opportunity, and show a different face depending on the audience. John Kerry is a political ghost. His “values” are invisible – his “ethic”, fleeting.

Do Americans want a Mozambique-born cosmopolitan liberal first lady with a Portuguese accent in the White House? Do Americans want a Marxist/socialist woman as our next first lady who has been quoted as saying “No American boy or girl should have to go to war and lose their lives because of our gluttonous need for oil”? The same woman who owns three SUV’s!? The same woman who said that “Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with terrorism”? Who are you people? ‘What’ are you people?

Do Americans want the daughter of their leader to show off her tits at a film festival? >> www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/100009.html << Sexual promiscuity, enormous wealth, and Marxist/socialist leanings threatens business interests, the image of Americana, and American values. Is ‘this’ what Americans want?

John Kerry is a rogue member of the Skull and Bones society at Yale. The difference between Kerry and other members of Skull & Bones is that Kerry betrayed its philosophy by constantly speaking out against Vietnam. Kerry is not a team player. John Kerry was educated primarily in Europe, made it a point to date very rich women, and applied for navy patrol boat duty in Nam: because he was taken in by John F. Kennedy’s sailing and philandering. Kerry explains his yen for adventure when he said, “I cut classes, I didn't do much. I spent a lot of time learning to fly”. Obviously, Kerry’s hunger for power is not based on a love of American values (or his wife’s) ... they are based on a sense of adventure, and a hunger for power. I would hate to see a family of pigs like this in the White House!

This situation is remarkably similar to what we had in 1963 when the ungrateful and self righteous Kennedy clan was also threatening to become a monarchy on American soil. So far, Kerry has succeeded in threatening to reconstitute the liberal bureaucracy of a bygone era. And for what it is worth, like the Kennedy’s, Kerry has also succeeded in angering the Catholic Church. Politics makes for strange bedfellows.




Philip