Sen. Kerry’s long awaited speech was typical in its liberal style – lots of promises, but little substance.
Let’s go through a number of them, shall we. First, “wages are falling, health care costs are rising, and our great middle class is shrinking. People are working weekends; they’re working two jobs, three jobs….We’re told that outsourcing jobs is good for America. We’re told that new jobs that pay $9,000 less than the jobs that have been lost is the best we can do. They say this is the best economy we’ve ever had. And they say that anyone who thinks otherwise is a pessimist.”
No, Mr. Kerry, we call those people left wing opportunists. The fact is that the U.S. economy is in very good shape. More people, again, more people are working today in America than ever before. Wages have increased under the Bush administration, not the opposite. America also has a positive number of imported jobs – in other words we import more work than we export. If we were to cease job exportation than foreign companies would, due to reciprocity, stop employing Americans in the U.S. What would you say then to the worker at the Honda plant in Marysville, Ohio?
To taxes – “And let me tell you what we won’t do: we won’t raise taxes on the middle class. You’ve heard a lot of false charges about this in recent months. So let me say straight out what I will do as President: I will cut middle class taxes. I will reduce the tax burden on small business.”
Do you really believe that? Throughout his “moderate” tenure in Washington Kerry has voted 350 times for higher taxes and against tax relief at least 29 times.
On Iraq – “Now I know there are those who criticize me for seeing complexities – and I do – because some issues just aren’t all that simple. Saying there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq doesn’t make it so. Saying we can fight a war on the cheap doesn’t make it so. And proclaiming mission accomplished certainly doesn’t make it so…As President, I will ask hard questions and demand hard evidence. I will immediately reform the intelligence system – so policy is guided by facts, and facts are never distorted by politics. And as President, I will bring back this nation’s time-honored tradition: the United States of America never goes to war because we want to, we only go to war because we have to.”
The flaw with this statement is obvious. Kerry saw the same evidence that the president saw and authorized him to go to war with Iraq. To state otherwise or, in this case, to pretend that Kerry was opposed to an invasion is clear revisionist history. 5 May 2003 “I said at the time I would have preferred if we had given diplomacy a greater opportunity, but I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein, and when the President made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him.�
I support the fact that we did disarm him. Apparently he has since found his medal-heaving roots and is now a peace candidate – who also is strong on defense. Now, if that isn’t intelectual dishonesty I don’t know what is.
We saw nothing new tonight. It should not have surprised anyone. If things were peacefull and quiet in Iraq he would be gloating about his war vote. The opposite, which we see today, is also true. He is a populist politician – one that is not guided by morals or values, but instead on his perception of what the masses will find most appealing. This is exactly what we experienced throughout the 1990’s. We all know what that was like. Kerry, however, has gone through more political cosmetic surgeries than his Arkansas colleague ever had. And the left keep screaming that Bush is dangerous?
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