Kerry is stupid
Kerry Victory=Democratic Disaster
By Daniel G. Jennings
A John Kerry victory in November would be a disaster for the Democratic Party and possibly the nation.
There are several reasons a Kerry victory would be a catastrophe but the major reason is this: Kerry would almost immediately face an impeachment attempt. The Republicans, the geniuses responsible for the Monica Lewinksy fiasco, will probably control Congress after the election. My guess is that they would try to impeach Kerry. Especially since the presidential election is likely to be close, if Kerry wins, Republicans will regard his election as illegitimate just as many Democrats believe Bush stole the 2000 election. So there will be plenty of ammunition for a Kerry impeachment attempt.
Having our national leadership distracted by something as silly as impeachment in a time of war and global oil shortage would be disaster. Yet that is a likely outcome if Kerry wins. Especially if Republicans in the heartland blame the media and Hollywood for the Kerry victory.
A Kerry victory would further alienate the Democratic Party and its leadership from average Americans and destroy whatever popular appeal the party still has. This would happen because a Kerry victory would embolden left-wing extremists in the Democratic Party and the media. The left would go further and further off the deep end pushing loonier and loonier ideas. The real concerns of the nation would be abandoned in favor of a policy focusing on such things as gays rights and political correctness.
The left wing extremists with their man in the White House would undoubtedly launch a nationwide witch hunt. Michael Moore and his ilk would undoubtedly try to hunt down and punish the evil conspirators they blame for the war in Iraq. If Kerry were elected president and/or Democrats took back a house of congress there would be pressure for investigative committees, grand juries and special prosecutors to investigate the causes of the war. Self proclaimed investigative journalists would quickly come forward with hit lists of evil warmongers to punish. Dozens of innocent people, many with Jewish last names, would be dragged before these bodies and see their characters destroyed by two bit tyrants. The result would be the most embarrassing witch hunt and abandonment of American ideals since Joseph McCarthy's day.
If all this weren't bad enough Kerry would be a one term, lame duck president. Kerry would have one of two unappealing choices. He'd either have to adopt a Democratic foreign policy, pulling troops out of the Middle East, relying upon worthless European allies, that is a sure fire prescription for disaster or abandon that policy and face the wrath of the peace movement, his fellow Democrats and the media. Either policy would destroy Kerry following the rational course that is continuing Bush's agenda would open Kerry up to criticism and leave him with no allies. Following the Democratic policy would leave America weak and vulnerable to terrorist attack while effectively turning the Middle East oilfields over to China or India. This would leave Kerry wide open to attacks by both Republicans and many of the Democrats who urged him to pursue that course of action in the first place.
Such foreign policy boondoggles combined with the Michael Moore witch hunt would destroy Kerry quickly and lay the groundwork for a tremendous Republican victory in 2008. The Democrats would become the party of American weakness abroad and character assassination at home.
The best thing for Democrats in 2004 would be a sound defeat of John Kerry. This would kill off the far left which despite its media overexposure as no popular appeal (as Howard Dean's primary defeat proved) and give Bush time to prove his foreign policy. If the Bush Doctrine is justified by events, as I believe it will be, the Democrats can simply adopt it as the Republicans adopted the Truman Doctrine. That way a strong Democratic candidate can run on a sensible platform in 2008, win the election and implement the social, economic, regulatory and other reforms America so desperately needs. If this doesn't happen, social liberals and progressives, had better hope that the Republicans will be willing to make room for them because the GOP will become the majority party if Kerry wins the election.