The liberal media see their favored candidate heading towards the dumpsters. Instead of reporting why this is the case, the liberals in the media conspire to ramp up their attack on Bush and any real or perceived Republicans that happen to be handy.

Last month they were writing hit-pieces on the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. That is, the media coordinated an attack on the 254 Swifties and supported the two or three who still back Kerry.

Even liberals get an opinion. The problem is, they should not publish that opinion as hard news, which they do. Because, the true fact is that the Swifties have enough eye witness reports to convict Kerry in any court for falsifying reports to the Navy.

Last week the liberal cross-dressers in the media and Kerry campaign said they are going to start ramping up the meanness and go after President Bush hot and heavy. Well, I have a question for the liberal media: Can I play, too?

Remember now, I know some of you toke and snort. I also know which of you drink more than your share of adult beverages. If I think about it some, I'll bet I can also match up who was playing extracurricular games with whom. All readers should know that journalists are "public figures" and so we can let out all sorts of interesting truths about their lifestyles with impunity. So there's my little notice to the media. Are we still getting nasty?

Enough of that. Time to try political meanness:

Last week we saw the leftist Associated Press and CBS again conjure up stories about that old canard of Lieutenant George Bush missing Guard meetings. No news there, but evidently the far left media has nothing else nasty to say about Bush.

Well, turn around is fair play. Let's look at Kerry's record. As posted, Kerry's DD-214 form is obviously not correct. Most probably, Kerry received the discharge he deserved: Bad Conduct. That was because of his antics with the Vietnam Veterans Against The War while he was still a commissioned officer in the Navy. I'm not really sure about the Navy, but I know darn well that the Army would have had something to say if I started a communist front organization like that while still being in the reserves. My bet is that they would have had me sitting in the brig at Fort Knox, for starters.

Simply put, Kerry will never allow his military records to become public because he received something other than an honorable discharge and then had it changed after becoming a senator. Kerry is ashamed of his military records, as he should be.

So, where is the liberal media on this? AWOL, of course. They support communist sympathizers.

Tell Kerry to put up -- or shut up and go away. Voters have a right to see everything in this faux hero's record.

There's another little problem American voters should be aware of. Kerry was treated for medical and psychiatric problems. Two are manifest by sleepwalking, which he admits. Kerry received both medical and psychiatric treatment for whatever reasons. Voters deserve a full report on that, else we cannot judge his trustworthiness as our nation's top cop and as commander of our armed forces.

Many in the media know of these problems. It's no secret. Yet, they never mention it. Why? If it were George Bush, they would be trumpeting that loud and clear, demanding all records be released.

We already know that Kerry is a compulsive liar and cannot hold a working opinion more then a few moments. What causes these problems? What else will we find in Kerry's medical and psychiatric records? Come on, media, stop protecting Kerry. The American people need to know.

Then there are the tax records. How did it happen that the billionaire Kerrys only had $5.49 million of income in 2003 and paid just $677,000 in taxes? Is it true that they only paid 12% on over five million bucks in income? Kerry wants American workers making $200,000 to pay 38%. Why is this stuff not news?

And why hide Teresa's income tax forms? Voters have a right to know which of the communist, socialist, anarchist and environmental groups she is funding. Why is she so ashamed of it?

The rabid liberals in the media and Kerry campaign want to ramp up the meanness? Okay. But that street runs both ways. John Kerry has a lot of skeletons in his closet to talk about.

John Kerry woke up last Tuesday morning confused and agitated. As he realized, his propensity towards prevarication and exaggeration are now well known by voters. In politics, that stuff usually works with a significant segment of the population simply because they are uninformed. Didn't work as well this time, though. Voters are starting to laugh at Kerry.

Or even worse, voters are starting to disregard Kerry. Quite often, campaign staff, reporters and Republican hecklers make up a significant part of the crowd at his lightly attended campaign appearances. Clearly, the Kerry campaign is having a few little problems.

One problem is that Kerry makes too many ridiculous comments about President Bush, statements that are so outrageous even the politically uneducated realize they are silly. Then, of course, Kerry keeps contradicting himself day to day and almost hour to hour. Good liars learn to keep their stories straight. Not so with John Kerry. He plays the whole field -- and sometimes both sides at the same time.

And then there came a morning when John Kerry awoke with yet another whole new set of campaign propaganda talking points to learn.

Kerry was advised on how to keep his stories straight, of course, from the master prevaricator himself: Bill Clinton. Better yet, though, Clinton sent over part of his team of confusion, distortion and cover-up experts to help run damage control for Kerry's flip-flopping campaign. In effect, Clinton lent Kerry part of the old Clinton White House propaganda ministry and war room so that Kerry could dissemble more effectively.

This produced two very interesting problems: First, there have already been a series of heated arguments between the Hillary supporters running the DNC and the Kerry campaign. Sending Bill's propaganda team over to help Kerry does not cure that one iota. Second, now there are interesting arguments developing between the original Kerry campaign team and Bill's people -- who tried to move in and take over.

Bill's people told Kerry to stop with the faux war hero baloney. It didn't work and came back to bite him in the butt. They want Kerry to jump on a modern rendition of "it's the economy, stupid" because they got away with that silliness for a Clinton campaign once. Then -- and this is quite a bit more difficult -- they want Kerry to develop something resembling "opinions" that he can stick with. That is, he must quit debating himself; stop taking both sides of every issue every week.

Of course, Kerry already had a campaign staff in place that like themselves a lot and think they were doing a good job. Which means, they greatly resent the heavy-handed intrusion of the Clinton people forced upon them.

So when John Kerry woke up on Tuesday morning a bit agitated and confused, it was for good reason. There is infighting between the two camps at his campaign headquarters and even among advisers on the campaign trail. His campaign committee is forever arguing with the DNC leadership. Bill's people, supposedly helping him, also stay away from the DNC leadership as much as possible because the DNC leadership support Hillary. And, to top that all off, John Kerry has to try to keep a muzzle on his wife, lest she get overly mouthy in public again and make her own outrageous form of news.

So there we have it. This is what happens when a political party puts forth an empty-shirt as a candidate who can talk but can't really say anything of substance. Kerry does not have enough leadership ability to even control his campaign committee. Does anyone still think John Kerry has the leadership ability to function as chief executive of the United States of America?

Even Jimmy Carter is a better leader than John Kerry and many of us can still remember how terribly wrong that presidency went. Carter, after all, had a handle on every little thing happening around him. That was part of his downfall (nitpicking), of course, but at least Carter could keep his stories straight and (most of) his people in line.

John Kerry's problems are all with himself -- and, of course, the fact that he picked a trial lawyer as a running mate. He lacks both the temperament and the abilities to be an effective president. Worse, as with the Clintons, no one can ever believe a word John Kerry says.

Last month Kerry posed for a photo op waving around a shotgun -- with his finger on the trigger. Last week there was Kerry at another photo op with a shotgun. This time the hypocrite was holding a type of weapon he wants to ban (S. 1431).

Lurch would have us believe he favors the Second Amendment, but that is just another political lie. Fact is, we have Kerry's 20 year voting record in the Senate and that shows two interesting things: Kerry votes 100% socialist and he has voted to violate the Second Amendment to the Constitution every single time a bill came up.

For instance, according to NRA records[1], Kerry voted nine times to ban semi-auto firearms. In fact, Kerry even voted for a Ted Kennedy amendment to ban most rifle ammunition, including the most common rounds used by hunters and target shooters. Kerry also voted to hold America's firearms makers, rather than violent criminals, responsible for crimes committed with firearms. He was one of only 18 senators who opposed the Firearms Owners' Protection Act, which ended alarming abuses being committed under the 1968 Gun Control Act. Kerry voted to criminalize legal sales between private citizens at gun shows. He voted to impose penalties of a year in prison and a $10,000 fine on an adult if a juvenile steals a gun from him and then displays it in a public place. He voted to keep the federal waiting period after the National Instant Check System was in place. And, Kerry voted twice to eliminate the Civilian Marksmanship Program.

Obviously, Kerry will not be getting the NRA vote this November.

John Michael Snyder, public affairs director at the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms[2], awards Kerry a big fat zero on gun rights, saying that Kerry "can add this zero award to his collection of Purple Hearts and band aids." Snyder added that Kerry "truly is a first class hypocrite. In recent months, he's been going around the country trying to cater to pro-gun rights voters, proclaiming that, 'I am a gun owner and a hunter and I respect the Second Amendment,' BUT, 'I've never contemplated shooting a deer with an AK-47.' This does not wash with America's gun owners. The Second Amendment, as a popular bumper strip proudly, simply and forthrightly proclaims, 'ISN'T about duck hunting.' It IS about the right to keep and bear arms for defense of life and property. Some gun owners are doing that right now in Florida as they protect their property from looters in the wake of Hurricanes Charley and Frances."

Rep. James Madison, who presented the Bill of Rights to the first Congress, earlier wrote in The Federalist Papers #46: "Americans have the right and advantage of being armed -- unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

Thomas Jefferson clearly recognized the need for an American citizen to have the means of security always at the ready: "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."[3]

Alexander Hamilton, a strong defender of executive branch power, agreed both with the Second Amendment and that the federal government should stay out of everything not specifically tasked to it by the Constitution. In The Federalist Papers #78, Hamilton wrote: "There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid."

The American people have a Constitutional right to keep and bear arms for the protection of self, family, home, neighborhood, town, state, and nation. Any politician attempting to restrict that right should be sent packing in shame.

1. <http://www.nrapvf.org/Kerry/default.aspx>

2. <http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=35689>

3. Encyclopedia of T. Jefferson, 318 [Foley, Ed., reissued 1967]

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