Catering to the Democratic Convention
EDITORIAL Frank Salvato
July 26, 2004
This attempt to "tone down the rhetoric,” simply put, is yet another example of John Kerry trying to be all things to all people without actually being who he really is. Realizing that the core bases of both the Republican and Democratic Parties are staunchly in their respective corners, Kerry has finally recognized that the demographic he needs to cajole is that of the undecided voter. Of course any politician with the wherewithal of a third-grader could have explained this to him at the beginning of the campaign but such is life when working with a political chameleon.
The Kerry campaign is trying hard to instill upon those who will be speaking at the convention the great need to limit the Bush-bashing, the same Bush-bashing the Kerry campaign has to date embraced with an incredible thirst. They have even gone so far as to request that the line-up of speakers submit their speeches so they can be "approved,” in an effort to control the Bush-bashing. Of course this smacks of censorship but then it doesn’t surprise me that they would go to such an extent to attain the power of the White House.
The need to limit the Bush-bashing arises from the fact that undecided voters, voters who astonishingly need to hear more rhetoric in order to make a decision on who they will vote for in November, tend to find caustic campaigning, a tactic used almost exclusively by the Kerry campaign, distasteful, they tend to reject it. So, now that the Democratic National Convention is about to begin the Kerry campaign is once again scrambling to be something that it is not to the most important portion of the electorate, the undecided voters.
The Kerry campaign will no doubt try to paint itself the champion of social issues while once again stating that this "war hero” (did you know that John Kerry was in Vietnam?) would have formed an international coalition before going into Iraq. Pay no attention to the fact that economists around the country and the National Taxpayers Union have exposed his economic proposals as completely disastrous for the American economy. And try to ignore that the corruption at the UN and in the international community with regard to Iraq was so far reaching that even the most inept of analysts could have surmised that nations like France, Germany and Russia, enabled by the UN, would stand in obstruction to Saddam Hussein’s removal from power. As the tentacles of corruption are exposed in the UN Oil-for-Food scandal it is becoming quite clear that the three stooge nations did all they could to keep their illegal activities from surfacing, including preferring a genocidal maniac to the integrity of the UN.
Kerry and his running mate John Edwards, the one-term Senator from North Carolina, will pontificate on the "two Americas,” a borrowed idea from the very bowels of communism, in an effort to define a non-existent divide in America. While cloaking the idea first conjured up by the likes of Karl Marx in sweet sounding "Southernese” they will further confuse this communist ideology with socialism while talking about the American people’s "right” to healthcare and their "right” to high-waged jobs. Of course nowhere in the US Constitution does it guarantee either of these rights. The US Constitution, for all its magnificence, simply guarantees: the right to opportunity; the opportunity to attain a job; the opportunity to pursue healthcare. Nowhere in the US Constitution does it state that the government shall afford these things to its people. In fact, the US Constitution lends itself to limiting the amount of government in the American life. Something quite different from what the two Johns would have you believe.
The Kerry campaign will try to paint itself the compassionate alternative to George W. Bush all the while concealing its propensity to embrace the hate initially born of the Dean campaign, a hate nurtured by the Kerry campaign to heights never seen before in American politics. Their real face will be hidden from the people of the nation throughout the convention, replaced by a façade that can only be described as a collection of deceit, a grift, designed to defraud the American people out of the only political voice they have, their vote.
So while the "warm and fuzzies" flourish throughout Boston this week, while the Kerry/Edwards love-fest inspires thoughts of a political Utopia, don’t forget to gear up for the storm of Bush-bashing that is sure to return to the forefront once the Democratic National Convention is over. Just as the swallows return to Capistrano each year, so too the Kerry campaign will revert to its tactic of deceitful Bush-bashing once outside of the confines of their convention. It could be argued that this convention was…ahem…"catered."