For reasons that are more psychological than political, George W. Bush has been the most hated president in memory. The Left has hated him from the beginning because they regarded his election as illegitimate: for the Left, the Florida Supreme Court’s decisions on behalf of Al Gore were appropriate, while the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversals of the Florida Supreme Court’s decisions were inappropriate.
But there are many other reasons for what can fairly be described as a hatred bordering on the hysterical: President Bush claims to make his decisions based on the values informed by his Christian faith; he is a Texas – read “cowboy” – Republican; he has no regard for the gods of the Left – in particular the news media and academia; and most important, he believes the United States is morally superior to the United Nations and therefore fully justified in acting alone at times.
While the Right is not as predisposed to hating fellow Americans as is the Left, many non-Left Americans, while not harboring the hatred for Sen. John Kerry that the Left harbors for George W. Bush, hold John Kerry in low regard and believe that bad things would accompany a John Kerry presidency.
Here is one voter’s list:
- John Kerry was described by Lynne Cheney as “not a good man” after Kerry used the Cheney daughter’s sexual orientation to score political points. She may be right. As William Safire writes, “The sleazier purpose of the Kerry-Edwards spotlight on Mary Cheney is to confuse and dismay Bush supporters who believe that same-sex marriage is wrong, to suggest that Bush is as ‘soft on same-sex’ as Kerry is, and thereby to reduce a Bush core constituency’s eagerness to go to the polls.” Even the press, Safire notes, has respected Mary Cheney’s right to privacy.
- John Edwards, Kerry’s choice as his running mate, is a trial lawyer who has made a fortune suing hospitals. Like many in his profession, he has made America a worse country. However, even more of his character was revealed when he said after the death of Christopher Reeve, “If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.”
As Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer, himself wheelchair-bound from paralysis, wrote, “In my 25 years in Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. Deliberately, for personal gain, raising false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable … There is no apologizing for Edwards’ remark. It is too revealing. There is absolutely nothing the man will not say to get elected.”
- Normally even partisan observers of elections say nothing about the wives of presidential candidates. Aside from propriety – the families of candidates should remain off-limits to political attacks – every wife of every presidential candidate and of every president in living memory has been an asset to the country. It brings me no joy to say that Teresa Heinz Kerry is not worthy of being the first lady of the United States of America. From her public utterances – such as young American men and women dying in Iraq because of American “greed for oil” – and her many years of financial support for radical groups, it is clear to me and many others that this woman does not particularly care for this country. Her primary identity is that of world citizen, and her values are those of France and anti-American Europe.
- John Kerry represents the Party of Michael Moore. This America-hating Marxist was given a place of honor at the Democratic Party Convention in Boston, seated next to Jimmy Carter, a former Democratic president who said that Moore’s Goebbels-like propaganda film “Fahrenheit 9-11” was one of his two favorite films.
- A vote for John Kerry is a vote for Michael Moore, the ACLU, Ted Kennedy, trial lawyers, George Soros, the leftist academics who morally confuse generations of young Americans, and for Dan Rather, CBS News, and nearly the entire news complex that daily presents a proctologist’s view of America. A vote for John Kerry is a vote for Jesse Jackson, whom Kerry has named a top adviser; and for Al Sharpton, with whom Kerry campaigns; for Sean Penn and his Hollywood world; and for the passionately pro-Kerry MTV, the greatest destroyer of young people’s minds and souls in American history. And a vote for John Kerry is a vote for the countries that have abandoned us and against the countries that are helping us.
Two unimpressive men have been nominated by the Democratic Party to be president and vice president of the world’s greatest country. If they win, this country will, for the first time, begin relinquishing that greatness.
