On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, I thought it was ironically appropriate to re-run this column on John Kerry that I wrote back in January of 2003. In some instances the truth remains the same, a rarity in Democratic politics today. In other instances some people...ahem...have gotten worse.

As preparations were being made for a fundraising trip to the crucial primary state of Iowa it is revealed that Democratic presidential hopeful Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts has strong feelings about the trips to places like Dubuque, Iowa: He hates them.

"I hate it. I detest it. I hate going to places like Austin and Dubuque to raise large sums of money. But I have to,” Kerry revealed in a1996 interview with a reporter from the Boston Globe. It has been reported that Kerry has collected more than $10,000 from the very Iowa residents that he hates to visit.

This kind of unabated arrogance is what runs rampant through the modern day Democratic Party. We saw it on the first day of the new congress when Senator Hillary Clinton, a carpetbagger senator from New York, helped to create a modified version of anarchy on the floor of the Senate when she proposed amendments to President Bush’s tax plan that would add a million people. We saw it just after the 2000 presidential election when then Republican Jim Jeffords switch his party affiliation to Independent effectively throwing the balance of the Senate away from how the people had voted for it to be. And we see it just about every time Bill Clinton makes another $750,000 for a speech to some group of reality challenged individuals who are willing to believe him when he takes credit for things that have actually taken place since he has left office. I find it to be incredible that the modern Democratic Party has decided to perpetrate this type of politics on the American people and even more amazing that the mainstream media and part of the American public fall for it.

It is this "win at all cost” type of ethically devoid political practice that promotes partisan politics. How can any elected official, Republican, Independent or true Democrat, who is trying to do something good for the American public allow themselves to be compromised by the tactics propagated by the Clinton Era Democrats? To even associate with them is to be sucked in by the ultra-liberal left, who themselves stood independent until they fell for the false promises and propaganda that the likes of the Clintons, Terry McAuliffe and the Thomason’s (Linda Bloodworth and her husband Harry) spew forth. Through these pillars or ethic morality we have witnessed a president lying under oath, news stories being created to detract from the events of the day and a senate seat being bought by a carpetbagger. We have been witness to a new brand of truth, a corruption of the truth, when it comes to political campaigning. How many times during the Al Gore campaign for president in 2000 did something that he said turn out to be not so? How many times during the legal wrangling after President Bush won the election was the Constitution referred to as a guideline? The arrogance didn’t even stop at politics with these people. Suddenly they were part of the Hollywood elite and their vision of self-importance and embraced-popularity exploded into a "how-dare-you-disagree-with-me” attitude that alienated and repulsed the average American and came close to disenchanting their true political base. Power is the name of the game for these people and anyway that they have to get it and preserve it is fair in their eyes, even if they have to go to Iowa. By dismissing the people of Iowa (and quite frankly the Midwest) in such a treacherous and disrespectful manner Kerry is dangerously close to falling into this category.

Marsha Vittal, a Dubuque resident was angry at the language used by Kerry with regard to his travels to Iowa when she said, "I am sorry he hates coming here and taking our money! He wants to be my president, but he detests, detests coming to where I’ve chosen to live my life, to ask for support?!”

In a spin not seen since Bill Clinton tried to redefine the word "is” during his Paula Jones deposition, a Kerry staffer explained that the senator holds no personal dislike of Dubuque or its residents. "He’s actually very excited to be making the trip this weekend,” the staffer added.

Now I ask you, isn’t it too obvious who is playing the American voter for the chump? Brace yourself America, bastardizing a phrase that Bill O’Reilly uses, the spin starts here.