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Taking aim at Kerry
Presidential candidate under fire for more than stance on guns
This story appeared on Page E9 of The New Bedford, MA. Standard-Times on October 10, 2004.
Some have said that I don't like John Kerry because I base my political stand squarely on our differences over the gun-control issue alone, but it's not entirely true.
It's not just because of how his self-proclamation as a sportsman/gun owner contradicts his anti-gun/anti-hunting voting record, and his support of such pasty politicians that riles me up. That's just the tip of the iceberg, but it helps establish the pattern of this flip-flopping masquerader, where he'll say whatever you want to hear in order to get your vote -- and then cut your throat.
It's less than a month before the presidential election and I promised to let readers in on a pack of truths about John Kerry. He says he's a gun owner and sportsman, but just because he says it's so don't make it so. Actions speak louder than words, so let's look at his record.
When he was Lt. Governor for Gov. Michael Dukakis back in the 1970s, Dukakis said that by the time his term as governor was over, that "No-one in Massachusetts would own a gun." When questioned by the media as to what he would do if gun-owners wouldn't give up their guns, he replied, "Then we'll confiscate them." And Kerry supported him.
Kerry is also a long-time friend and supporter of one of the most flaming anti-gun politicians in history -- Ted Kennedy. Kerry voted for Kennedy's ammunition ban that would've prohibited most all centerfire hunting ammunition.
Bill Clinton is another of Kerry's pals, who, when running for office, also dressed up in a hunting coat, held up a couple of dead ducks and a shotgun and proclaimed himself as a sportsman, then embraced Sarah Brady and became one of the most anti-gun presidents in history.
The only difference between Clinton's stunt and Kerry's is that Kerry held up a pheasant, not ducks. And in Kerry's choreographed show, which was staged on an Iowa farm, he stood, waiting for a pheasant to flush ahead of him but the gun dog was working the bird behind him. Seems like the dog knew which end of the gun to be at while Kerry was holding it.
In yet another media opportunity, Kerry was photographed at a trap range, holding a shotgun with his finger on the trigger while talking to reporters, demonstrating unsafe gun handling. Any gun owner knows that you keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot.
When describing how he hunts deer, Kerry said that he plays games with them and that he crawls around on his belly. But truth be known, it's the other way around. It's the deer's job to play games with the hunters. It's the hunter's job to shoot them.
And add, if you will, a carnival barker's voice to the following, "And he crawls on his belly like the Reptile Man." Crawling on one's belly is a mode of transportation reserved for worms and snakes in the grass, which may explain why Kerry says that's how he gets about. But it's not used for hunting deer. In fact, if one crawled on his belly in the average deer habitat replete with swamps, briars and puckerbrush, he would emerge looking like he tried to give a bobcat a bath.
Recently, Kerry received a Remington Model 11-87 semi-automatic shotgun as a gift from a labor union. That same sporting arm however, would be prohibited under his very own bill (co-sponsored with Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton) which would classify all semi-automatic shotguns, even 100-year old antiques, as assault weapons -- and illegal.
No-Show Kerry, who had been absent from the Senate for 65 percent of all votes in 2003 and 100 percent of the votes from Jan. to March of this year, broke that streak when he interrupted his campaign to fly to Washington in order to sabotage landmark legislation that would've protected the gun industry from a series of frivolous and predatory lawsuits arising from the misuse of a legal product.
Former Attorney General Scott Harshbarger also received widespread support from Kerry. You remember him. He's the one who brought gun control into Massachusetts through the backdoor by imposing ridiculous manufacturing standards on the gun industry (under the ruse of public safety) which rendered most all high-quality, well-made handguns unsaleable in this state. This was seen through by current Attorney General Tom O'Reilly.
Harshbarger also criticized and tried to stop the state's Youth Waterfowl Hunt, held annually for youngsters ages 12-15, which allows them to get two days of hunting in before the regular fall season begins. This traditional pastime of a father and young son taking to a duck blind on a frosty October morning was deemed "violent" by Harshbarger. And Kerry supported him.
Humane USA, the political action committee representing animal-rights extremist groups, including the Humane Society of the United States and the Fund for Animals, has endorsed Kerry as its candidate. It's unthinkable that this rabid anti-hunting group would endorse anyone who truly is a hunter. Their endorsement comes as a result of Kerry's actions and his record, not his words.
Yet, after all this, along with an "F" rating on his Senate record by the National Rifle Association, Kerry still insists on calling himself a sportsman, gun owner and our friend. "But I am, I am," he'll tell us in words as sincere as those spoken by the serpent that tempted Eve. It's a wonder if the "F" in John F. Kerry stands for Fony or Flip-flop.
In other key issues, such as crime, Kerry has voted against imposing mandatory sentences on criminals who use firearms in the commission of a crime. So, he's tough on law-abiding gun owners, but soft on criminals. He's also voted against capital punishment time and again -- even for such heinous criminals as serial killers who show police where they buried the mutilated and sodomized bodies of their school-age victims.
In such cases, there's no chance of mistaken identity or a false conviction, but Kerry would rather we feed and clothe them, doctor them when they're sick, keep them warm in the winter and extend them rights and privileges. I, on the other hand, would prefer that they strap the Tin Man's hat on their heads and connect the red wire to positive and the black one to negative. And don't wet the sponge.
On the War in Iraq, Kerry gave it his blessing, then voted against it when he decided it might hurt his political career. He now criticizes George Bush for going to war. But think what Kerry and his liberal crybaby friends would've said if George Bush had not removed that international madman of terror, Saddam Hussein. They'd have said that Bush was weak to leave the U.S. vulnerable and in danger. And if Hussein indeed had weapons of mass destruction and used them to attack the U.S., Bush's head would've been on a platter. The liberals had Bush damned if he did and damned if he didn't. Personally, I feel safer with Hussein out of power. I hope the Tin Man's hat comes in his size.
Wishing to leave our troops unprotected, Kerry was one of only four Senators who voted against an $87 billion dollar budget to supply our soldiers with equipment such as body armor, ammunition, parts, etc.
He said, "It was a complicated issue." Gee, he didn't "get it." Except for the other three Senators, including John Edwards, everybody else "got it." If Kerry can't deal with complicated issues, then he should not be President of this country or Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. Maybe he'd be better suited to a job picking tomatoes in one of his wife's tomato fields (psst ... she's the heiress to the Heinz ketchup fortune).
Can you picture his first day at work. "Oh Mr. Field Boss. This is complicated. Tell me again, are the red ones the ripe ones, or are the green ones? I forget. Oh, and I'm getting a blister. When do I get my medal?"
A pious and devout Catholic he seems, if you've seen photos of him praying in church. But in sharp contrast to Catholic teachings, John Kerry is pro-abortion, but he doesn't talk much about it because he doesn't want to ruffle the feathers of the Irish Catholics in Boston. People are entitled to their opinions about abortion and when they think a baby is a fetus or a baby, but no one has been able to convince me that it's not a baby once it reaches birth. And John Kerry supports partial birth abortions, where the new baby is killed as it's emerging from the mother's birth canal.
Isn't it ironic, that when he returned from his short, four-month stint in Viet Nam, Kerry stood with Jane Fonda (who spat on American troops) and accused his fellow soldiers of being baby-killers -- but he votes to legalize baby-killing in the U.S.? He also accused his fellow soldiers of other atrocities and he now wants to command those same military forces.
I've worked three jobs at one time to support my family, and I'm growing tired of my taxes going to give-away programs -- but Kerry has voted against welfare reform. I'm all for helping the hurt, sick and those who can't work, but because of Kerry I'm continuing to foot the bill for slackers who "won't" work.
In his bid for election, he tried to appeal to minorities but instead slurred them. He said that he has a plan to spend $10,000 a year on each black child in America, before they get to school. He said that we need to get them into pre-school programs, like Headstart, before it's too late. To scare us into falling for another of his giveaways, he said, "Take your pick. Either we spend $10,000 a year on them now or spend $50,000 a year to house them in jail later."
In no uncertain terms, he said that unless we get black children out of their homes, away from their families and into pre-school programs, they are doomed for failure. Predisposed to a life of crime. Born criminals. It's a good thing he didn't say that about my parents. He'd have had a helluva fight on his hands.
As you can see, Kerry's anti-gun and anti-hunting record is not my only reason for saying that he is not fit to lead this country.
Can you imagine what his administration could be like? Jane Fonda as Secretary of Defense, Sarah Brady in charge of the firearms division of the BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms), Ted Kennedy as head of the Dept. of Transportation (remember Chappaquidick), The Sheriff of Nottingham as director of the IRS and Jack the Ripper as the Surgeon General. At the head of all this would be Beetle Bailey himself, that lanky, comic strip slacker of an Army private.
In the voting rolls, I am registered as an "undeclared," meaning that I am an independent who votes for the person, not the political party. I admit that George Bush is not without flaws. After all, he is human. And if the Democrats had elected a strong candidate who I thought could do a better job of leading this country, especially in a time of war and terrorist threats, I would've seriously considered voting for him or her. However, the Democrats have failed miserably in electing John Fony Kerry as their candidate. If that's the best they could come up with, they've left me no choice but to vote for George Bush for President of the United States of America.
Marc Folco is The Standard-Times' outdoor writer. E-mail him at [email protected]
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/10-04/10-10-04/e09sp987.htm
Presidential candidate under fire for more than stance on guns
This story appeared on Page E9 of The New Bedford, MA. Standard-Times on October 10, 2004.
Some have said that I don't like John Kerry because I base my political stand squarely on our differences over the gun-control issue alone, but it's not entirely true.
It's not just because of how his self-proclamation as a sportsman/gun owner contradicts his anti-gun/anti-hunting voting record, and his support of such pasty politicians that riles me up. That's just the tip of the iceberg, but it helps establish the pattern of this flip-flopping masquerader, where he'll say whatever you want to hear in order to get your vote -- and then cut your throat.
It's less than a month before the presidential election and I promised to let readers in on a pack of truths about John Kerry. He says he's a gun owner and sportsman, but just because he says it's so don't make it so. Actions speak louder than words, so let's look at his record.
When he was Lt. Governor for Gov. Michael Dukakis back in the 1970s, Dukakis said that by the time his term as governor was over, that "No-one in Massachusetts would own a gun." When questioned by the media as to what he would do if gun-owners wouldn't give up their guns, he replied, "Then we'll confiscate them." And Kerry supported him.
Kerry is also a long-time friend and supporter of one of the most flaming anti-gun politicians in history -- Ted Kennedy. Kerry voted for Kennedy's ammunition ban that would've prohibited most all centerfire hunting ammunition.
Bill Clinton is another of Kerry's pals, who, when running for office, also dressed up in a hunting coat, held up a couple of dead ducks and a shotgun and proclaimed himself as a sportsman, then embraced Sarah Brady and became one of the most anti-gun presidents in history.
The only difference between Clinton's stunt and Kerry's is that Kerry held up a pheasant, not ducks. And in Kerry's choreographed show, which was staged on an Iowa farm, he stood, waiting for a pheasant to flush ahead of him but the gun dog was working the bird behind him. Seems like the dog knew which end of the gun to be at while Kerry was holding it.
In yet another media opportunity, Kerry was photographed at a trap range, holding a shotgun with his finger on the trigger while talking to reporters, demonstrating unsafe gun handling. Any gun owner knows that you keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot.
When describing how he hunts deer, Kerry said that he plays games with them and that he crawls around on his belly. But truth be known, it's the other way around. It's the deer's job to play games with the hunters. It's the hunter's job to shoot them.
And add, if you will, a carnival barker's voice to the following, "And he crawls on his belly like the Reptile Man." Crawling on one's belly is a mode of transportation reserved for worms and snakes in the grass, which may explain why Kerry says that's how he gets about. But it's not used for hunting deer. In fact, if one crawled on his belly in the average deer habitat replete with swamps, briars and puckerbrush, he would emerge looking like he tried to give a bobcat a bath.
Recently, Kerry received a Remington Model 11-87 semi-automatic shotgun as a gift from a labor union. That same sporting arm however, would be prohibited under his very own bill (co-sponsored with Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton) which would classify all semi-automatic shotguns, even 100-year old antiques, as assault weapons -- and illegal.
No-Show Kerry, who had been absent from the Senate for 65 percent of all votes in 2003 and 100 percent of the votes from Jan. to March of this year, broke that streak when he interrupted his campaign to fly to Washington in order to sabotage landmark legislation that would've protected the gun industry from a series of frivolous and predatory lawsuits arising from the misuse of a legal product.
Former Attorney General Scott Harshbarger also received widespread support from Kerry. You remember him. He's the one who brought gun control into Massachusetts through the backdoor by imposing ridiculous manufacturing standards on the gun industry (under the ruse of public safety) which rendered most all high-quality, well-made handguns unsaleable in this state. This was seen through by current Attorney General Tom O'Reilly.
Harshbarger also criticized and tried to stop the state's Youth Waterfowl Hunt, held annually for youngsters ages 12-15, which allows them to get two days of hunting in before the regular fall season begins. This traditional pastime of a father and young son taking to a duck blind on a frosty October morning was deemed "violent" by Harshbarger. And Kerry supported him.
Humane USA, the political action committee representing animal-rights extremist groups, including the Humane Society of the United States and the Fund for Animals, has endorsed Kerry as its candidate. It's unthinkable that this rabid anti-hunting group would endorse anyone who truly is a hunter. Their endorsement comes as a result of Kerry's actions and his record, not his words.
Yet, after all this, along with an "F" rating on his Senate record by the National Rifle Association, Kerry still insists on calling himself a sportsman, gun owner and our friend. "But I am, I am," he'll tell us in words as sincere as those spoken by the serpent that tempted Eve. It's a wonder if the "F" in John F. Kerry stands for Fony or Flip-flop.
In other key issues, such as crime, Kerry has voted against imposing mandatory sentences on criminals who use firearms in the commission of a crime. So, he's tough on law-abiding gun owners, but soft on criminals. He's also voted against capital punishment time and again -- even for such heinous criminals as serial killers who show police where they buried the mutilated and sodomized bodies of their school-age victims.
In such cases, there's no chance of mistaken identity or a false conviction, but Kerry would rather we feed and clothe them, doctor them when they're sick, keep them warm in the winter and extend them rights and privileges. I, on the other hand, would prefer that they strap the Tin Man's hat on their heads and connect the red wire to positive and the black one to negative. And don't wet the sponge.
On the War in Iraq, Kerry gave it his blessing, then voted against it when he decided it might hurt his political career. He now criticizes George Bush for going to war. But think what Kerry and his liberal crybaby friends would've said if George Bush had not removed that international madman of terror, Saddam Hussein. They'd have said that Bush was weak to leave the U.S. vulnerable and in danger. And if Hussein indeed had weapons of mass destruction and used them to attack the U.S., Bush's head would've been on a platter. The liberals had Bush damned if he did and damned if he didn't. Personally, I feel safer with Hussein out of power. I hope the Tin Man's hat comes in his size.
Wishing to leave our troops unprotected, Kerry was one of only four Senators who voted against an $87 billion dollar budget to supply our soldiers with equipment such as body armor, ammunition, parts, etc.
He said, "It was a complicated issue." Gee, he didn't "get it." Except for the other three Senators, including John Edwards, everybody else "got it." If Kerry can't deal with complicated issues, then he should not be President of this country or Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. Maybe he'd be better suited to a job picking tomatoes in one of his wife's tomato fields (psst ... she's the heiress to the Heinz ketchup fortune).
Can you picture his first day at work. "Oh Mr. Field Boss. This is complicated. Tell me again, are the red ones the ripe ones, or are the green ones? I forget. Oh, and I'm getting a blister. When do I get my medal?"
A pious and devout Catholic he seems, if you've seen photos of him praying in church. But in sharp contrast to Catholic teachings, John Kerry is pro-abortion, but he doesn't talk much about it because he doesn't want to ruffle the feathers of the Irish Catholics in Boston. People are entitled to their opinions about abortion and when they think a baby is a fetus or a baby, but no one has been able to convince me that it's not a baby once it reaches birth. And John Kerry supports partial birth abortions, where the new baby is killed as it's emerging from the mother's birth canal.
Isn't it ironic, that when he returned from his short, four-month stint in Viet Nam, Kerry stood with Jane Fonda (who spat on American troops) and accused his fellow soldiers of being baby-killers -- but he votes to legalize baby-killing in the U.S.? He also accused his fellow soldiers of other atrocities and he now wants to command those same military forces.
I've worked three jobs at one time to support my family, and I'm growing tired of my taxes going to give-away programs -- but Kerry has voted against welfare reform. I'm all for helping the hurt, sick and those who can't work, but because of Kerry I'm continuing to foot the bill for slackers who "won't" work.
In his bid for election, he tried to appeal to minorities but instead slurred them. He said that he has a plan to spend $10,000 a year on each black child in America, before they get to school. He said that we need to get them into pre-school programs, like Headstart, before it's too late. To scare us into falling for another of his giveaways, he said, "Take your pick. Either we spend $10,000 a year on them now or spend $50,000 a year to house them in jail later."
In no uncertain terms, he said that unless we get black children out of their homes, away from their families and into pre-school programs, they are doomed for failure. Predisposed to a life of crime. Born criminals. It's a good thing he didn't say that about my parents. He'd have had a helluva fight on his hands.
As you can see, Kerry's anti-gun and anti-hunting record is not my only reason for saying that he is not fit to lead this country.
Can you imagine what his administration could be like? Jane Fonda as Secretary of Defense, Sarah Brady in charge of the firearms division of the BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms), Ted Kennedy as head of the Dept. of Transportation (remember Chappaquidick), The Sheriff of Nottingham as director of the IRS and Jack the Ripper as the Surgeon General. At the head of all this would be Beetle Bailey himself, that lanky, comic strip slacker of an Army private.
In the voting rolls, I am registered as an "undeclared," meaning that I am an independent who votes for the person, not the political party. I admit that George Bush is not without flaws. After all, he is human. And if the Democrats had elected a strong candidate who I thought could do a better job of leading this country, especially in a time of war and terrorist threats, I would've seriously considered voting for him or her. However, the Democrats have failed miserably in electing John Fony Kerry as their candidate. If that's the best they could come up with, they've left me no choice but to vote for George Bush for President of the United States of America.
Marc Folco is The Standard-Times' outdoor writer. E-mail him at [email protected]
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/10-04/10-10-04/e09sp987.htm