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Oct. 16, 2004 In the last of three debates between President Bush and his Democrat challenger, Senator John Kerry, the question was asked, "Do you think homosexuals choose to be gay or are they born that way?" (paraphrased) President Bush answered honestly with, "I don't know." Senator Kerry, on the other hand, chose that opportunity to comment on VP Dick Cheney's daughter's homosexuality, injecting a personal slam into the debate which may result in his ultimate defeat (thankfully.) That ill-advised gaffe MAY be just the thing that will turn off the "swing voters" (who probably don't "swing" much, in reality, but certainly enjoy the media attention given them.) With all the media attention being focused on this race, anyone who truly hasn't chosen a candidate for whom to vote at this point, some 17 days out from the election, probably shouldn't even BE voting because they're obviously clueless. One of my worst fears is that there'll be thousands of people who enter voting booths and, at that exact point, make their decision for President based on what they heard on the news the night before. It happens that way in MOST elections, I suppose, but tie color or the appearance of either candidate physically should NEVER be a factor in a decision that important. Unfortunately, it sometimes is. The press made a big deal out of the fact that Senator John Kennedy was "more attractive" to women voters than VP Richard Nixon in 1960 and that one factor may have helped him get much of the women's vote. What an utterly shallow way to decide, but, unfortunately, all to common in the last 40 years of televised ads and debates. John Kerry's lesbian remarks following on his running-mate's similar remarks directed at VP Cheney's daughter, SHOULD show the electorate that these two empty suits are so ambitious that they'll resort to almost anything to win this election. In fact, I can think of no, specific depravity or illegality that the left WON'T use to win an election. Recent history is rife with examples. In 2000, Gore's minions traveled to Milwaukee where they were found to be giving out cigarettes to the homeless in exchance for voting multiple times at multiple locations throughout the city--for Gore, naturally. In the 1998 mid-term elections and again just before the 2000 election, cards were mailed out by the DNC, under President Clinton's signature, to everyone living in selected areas of California with an Hispanic surname, proclaiming that the card was their "registration to vote Democratic," despite the fact that a large proportion of those cards wound up in the hands of non-citizens, both legal and illegal, who are not allowed to vote in any U.S. election. All the card really did was encourage these people to (perhaps unknowingly) vote illegally. California election law being what it is, there was no practical way to determine who was really an eligible voter and who wasn't. In Miami in 2000, DNC operatives were found to be illegally "registering" Haitian immigrants and encouraging them to vote for Al Gore. No certain way of counting has yet been devised, but it's believed that literally THOUSANDS voted illegally in Miami-Dade County alone. Finally, it was recently discovered that 7 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were registered as Democrats in Florida and COULD have illegally voted in 2000. It's not known if they did, of course. To wrap up, elections often hang on relatively minor details. Here's hoping that the gaffes by both Democrat candidates in making the "lesbian" comments directed at someone totally uninvolved in the election will sink the Kerry/Edwards campaign once and for all. By showing their true colors as people who'll stoop to literally any dirty trick to get elected and who don't really have the best interests of any minority group in mind beyond using them to achieve positions of power, SHOULD do so. We can only hope. The last people we should place in power in the United States are these wealthy, liberal elitists with no sense of shame. ------------ About the author: David A. Jared is a news junkie, semi-retired and an avid golfer who's been writing his first book, "4000 years of chopsticks" for the last 20 years. Email: Pappadave@sbcglobal.net |
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