Purple Heart
Who screwed the pooch on Nov. 3rd?
"Sir, you're no John Kennedy."
When you mix blue and red together, what color do you get?
Anybody else see John EDWARDS come out of Thaniel Hall, about three-thirty AM, Tuesday morning, and tell the waiting, praying, frantic crowd, that the Kerry/Edwards ticket WOULD NOT give up till EVERY last one of our HARD-WON votes were counted? Did you see John EDWARDS' face? Now, he may have spoken the most perfect and sinister lie that has EVER been uttered in American politics; but, I don't THINK so.
I believe that John Edwards meant every brief syllable that he spoke. And, I also believe that THAT man, John Edwards, was ready and capable of fighting to the death (and that's NO exaggeration in these "interesting times"), to make sure that EVERY LAST American vote WAS COUNTED.
Who scewed the pooch?
By the next day, John KERRY was doing the ol' "uniting America - for the good of the country", Little Big Horn Dance. John KERRY threw in the towel, while they were still counting Ohio, New Mexico and Iowa! Thirty-six HOURS (NOT thirty-six days) had NOT yet passed! What happened, Big John? Fear of winning? Fear of dying? Flip-Flop is my middle name, and I'm gonna do it again?
Look, by ALL credible accounts, John F. Kerry WON this "election". Now, we can debate this till the end of time. But, there are pretty clear facts and figures readily available, that PROVE it. From what us peons can glean, the ONLY person that deserves kudos for this most recent "abortion-o'-liberty", is Karl Rove (one more time). The "vote" WAS clearly fixed, especially in Ohio and Florida, and everybody in the media, and both party commands, knows it.
What happened to Karl Rove as a child, anyway? Maybe, someday, he'll invent a Rovolkswagon, or something HELPFUL, like that.
Anyway, the almost more important question is What Happened to John "Reporting for duty." Kerry, between four and ten o'clock AM, Tuesday, November 3rd? And, WHY did the melt-down come SO fast? May I submit these possibilities:
a.) Payola Not likely. Kerry has plenty of bucks, and his wife has even more. They spent a LOT of their own money on this recently aborted campaign. But, they've got plenty left. And, Senators get by pretty well, money-wise. Plus, think of the book sales etc.
b.) Getting whacked They did it to the REAL JFK and Paul Wellstone. Why not John Kerry? Kerry probably didn't think much about that. Anybody running as the Head of the Democrat ticket has HAD to consider THAT! But, he may have been told recently that his two daughters were about to "go for a swim with da fishes" (just like the hampster). Or, maybe, it was, "Accepta tha job, an' Terresa and tha boys end up in tha ketchup tank." Who knows?
c.) Ketchup futures The market would have definitely crashed, if Kerry would have accepted "the glory thrust upon him". That's been in the works for at least a year. Wall Street HATES Democrats. But, with Kerry in, Heinz stock would have led the plunge. It would end up about a penny on the dollar. Look what they did to Martha Stewart!
Terresa Heinz-Kerry's fortune is estimated at around three quarters of a billion(?). How much of that is Heinz STOCK, I don't know. But for certain, Wall Street would have destroyed that old, dependable, rock-solid, American household name, that she inherited recently. She didn't want that on HER watch! Besides, that money's for the kids(?).
Probably, they had worked it out between them, last spring; that he would cut and run, if he got elected, and the economy was STILL in good enough shape, for Wall Street to still be a factor (in other words, if the economy hadn't tanked so badly by now, that even Wall Street was prayin' for deliverence from Cheney/Bush - which they WILL be, shortly).
Also, it was pretty obvious that Teressa just isn't in love with American politics (Who can blame her?). So, why shoud SHE take the blunt of the attack against her new-found husband?
d.) Lark syndrom Don't laugh! This is a real possibility. John Kerry IS a spoiled, rich kid-turned spoiled, rich U.S. Senator. He had always wanted to run for President. But, he really didn't want to put in eight more years in D.C., especially as Prez., which is a truly grueling job, at best. And, he, apparently, doesn't give a shit about the hopes and dreams of a dying nation, desperate to get ANYBODY to replace Son of Stupid! So maybe, he just threw the ol' hat in the ring, on a lark.
Well, you've GOT to admit that he never came up with much of a strong counter to any of the blatant lies about flip-flopin' on supporting the war, and all that, that Dumbo kept throwing at him. It was kinda like he was just going through the motions, saying the same ol' things. I guess he just couldn't get his hands dirty. Thanks a trillion, Big John!
e.) What did he get that THIRD Purple Heart for, again? Maybe Big John never really had the balls to play hardball with the Big Boys, anyway. And, that's why he caved so quickly, last Wednesday morning. If that's true, after THIS fiasco, which happened to be America's last best hope of avoiding taking fascism as a major, for the next few centuries; and his poor ol', beat-to-shit Party's last chance at FINALLY kickin' the weenie liberal image, and actually WINNING an election; it's a real pitty that Johnny didn't just STAY up that river in 'Nam.
Really, I MEANT that, and YOU will too, when you get that friendly letter from the Draft Board, next spring.
f.) The Big Picture The economy is going to begin to fall off a cliff, about late January, 2005. That's a given. A lot of people know this, including the Cheney/Bush Mafia. BushCo has not only done nothing to stop it, but, they have consistently augmented the horrendous speed and intensity that the coming world economic implosion will present. And, that's been their attitude since the very day they "acquired" our White House.
About the only silver lining to the rapidly approaching (Bush) Depression, that the GOPigs have planned THIS time, is that it will put the Republican Party SO far back in the history books that you'll HAVE to "SIN", and look in "evolution of homo sapien" just to FIND the low-life bastards! Hallelujah for THAT!
So (And, I KNOW this is a REAL stretch!), maybe, just maybe, the "wise", ol' head honchos in the Democratic Party orchestrated this whole John Kerry-as-head-of-ticket-wins-and-then-walks scam, to out-Rove Karl Rove(?).
OK, OK, I KNOW that's a bit ridiculous! But, it IS one possible possibility.
I KNOW! I've HEARD all the jokes about the good folks at DNC, too. Space men from Mars made it happen, maybe(?).
BTW, soon, we're not gonna have enough money left in the US Treasury to buy a bottle of ketchup. So, THAT may solve a lot of just what Hillbilly Hitler actually CAN destroy in Syria-Iraq-Iran-Afghanistan, by next summer. Hope our boys can find a way home, and get those wounds checked out!
g.) New kid on the block OK, maybe, the Divas of DNC Donkeyland had just about convinced themselves that Long John Kerry was the hotest thing since sliced deficit; when, from out of the BLUE (I LOVE that word!), John "Oh, he's so-o-o-o cu-u-u-ute!" EDWARDS burst upon the scene. They took one look at John Edwards' hansome, boyish face, his Southern shit-eatin' grin and his apparent abundance of those two things that John Kerry obviously lost back in his Vietnamese alligator-wrestling days; and said, "Oh my! Just WHERE can we fit this young man in?"
So, maybe this whole trip with John Kerry was no different than the Democrats' nomination of Walter Mondale, or the Republicans' nomination of Bob Dole. i.e.: Perhaps they said: "Look, we can't beat that son of a bitch, Bush, THIS time. And, John Kerry's been hot to run for years ... After the economy collapses, and we loose another twenty or thirty thousand guys in the Mid East, Hell, we could run PeeWee Herman, and beat whoever those assholes throw at us. But, not THIS time!" And maybe, John Kerry did lots better than they thought!
Now, we've got two STRONG candidates for 2008, John Edwards (my bet) and Hillary Clinton (with Obama for Veep.)! We got it made (unless Karl Rove fixes the vote again, which he WILL. [Maybe, ya think?])!
PLUS, they tricked all us fools down here into beliving that John "swift reteat" Kerry really WOULD stand his ground, and FIGHT the Evil Empire. So, what the DNC got outta this is: they got a brand new, vibrant, Democratic Party structure in place. They got LOTs of new, fresh blood in the ranks, thanks to Howard Dean, Rock The Vote etc. Plus, they got MoveOn, TrueMajority, and a million bloggers and websites, like me, to boot. Not bad!
The only thing that they didn't count on was that a HUGE number of the Democratic rank and file SAW THROUGH their shenanigans, especially when Kerry wimped out so quickly(!). "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice ..."
h.) Skull and Bones beats Stars and Stripes Old fraternity ties outrank American Democracy, Freedom and Values? Remember how chummy Kerry was with Rainman, up there on stage, during the "debates"? Now, in a normal year, with a normal election going on, that would be quite acceptable.
But, Kerry smiling and joking with THE man that the majority of the people in the world see as THE greatest threat, not only to their freedom, but to our planet's very SURVIVAL?! I don't THINK so! THIS YEAR WAS DIFFERENT, John!
Sure, shake the bastard's hand to show that it's a fair fight, and all. But, don't go patting Cheney's Boy on the back! For one thing, you might damage some of his wiring, and cause a short, and start a fire! It's dangerous!
i.) Sick Maybe John Kerry found out two weeks ago that he's terminally ill(?). Shouldn't he have said something in his "retirement" speech?
j.) Diebold delivered Maybe there really IS no way (ever again) to PROVE that this, and the 2000 "election", and the 2002 "elections", and ALL the "elections" to come, forever and ever; were, are and ALWAYS WILL be, FIXED by the Republican machine - world without hope. Maybe John Kerry and his advisors feared that was true, all along. And it turned out that, indeed, it was true. He just had to convince John Edwards of it.
k.) "No guts, no glory!" The GOPigs are right (correct). The Democratic Party HAS become such a bunch of whining, sensative, new-age, Politically Correct, castrated LOSERS that, by now, we have become SO used to being the subservient, "loyal opposition"; that our Party may never get it up enough, to actually WIN an election, again(?).
l.) Try duct tape, maybe? The American electorial system is SO screwed up and SO corrupt, that only a totally "moral-free" political psychopath, like Karl Rove, could lead his morally bankrupt party to "victory". "Hail to the Theif!" "Jezzus saves!" "Bush is the chosen one!"
Well, that's all the possibilities my poor little brain could think of. What's YOUR bet? "Spacemen from Mars" looks pretty good to me. Monica Lawinsky did it? Jane Fonda? Marilyn Monroe caused it?
Whatever the answer(s), one thing's for sure: the HARD WORKING people of the Democratic Party got THOROUGHLY screwed by the "powers that be", in the decadent upper realms of the Democratic Party. We got screwed good enough THIS time to either not bother to show up to work next time, or to start our own damn party. I've been at this since I was eight years old (for Adlai Stevenson), and I've NEVER felt THIS burned by the DEMOCRATS(!), before.
We haven't seen much of Purple Heart John, lately. Guess he's up there in one of his mansions, sulking. Maybe he and Teressa headed up to Cape Ann, to flip-flop around on the big grey rocks by the ocean. You know, like a fish out of water? ' Like a man out of excuses.
Maybe he's slippin' Teressa the ol' "pickle", a variety of 57 ways, if he can still "cut the mustard". I guess everything looks better in Heinz sight, doesn't it!
Meanwhile, we're screwed.
I hope the good people of Boston will always hold dear, the year 2004! 'Cause it's the year that the Red Socks FINALLY WON the Series! God bless 'em! THAT was WONDERFUL!
But, I hope they don't forget that 2004 was also the year that John Kerry RAN, and America lost it's Freedom.
