WHY KERRY’S ELECTION IS POSSIBLE

All along I’ve said that no matter how bad or inadequate Bush is, Kerry is so palpably unqualified to be president that there was no realistic chance of his being elected.

How bad is Kerry? Let us count (some of) the ways.

He is an absurdly arrogant man who continually and blatantly contradicts himself and is utterly unable to account for the contradictions — whose typical response to legitimate criticism from political opponents is to say, “I won’t stand for it” — who made the amazing boast that foreign leaders supported his presidential candidacy, and then, when asked by a voter at a public forum who these foreign leaders were, retorted, “That’s none of your business” and browbeat the man into revealing what party he belonged to — who 30 years ago falsely accused the U.S. of systematic, Nazi-like war crimes and has never renounced those statements — whose main contribution to U.S. foreign policy debates over the last 20 years has been to call the United States “arrogant” and “haughty” — who repeatedly suggests that the United States government is illegitimate (namely his call for “regime change” in America, and his idea that America must go to the UN and ask to be re-admitted to the “community of nations,” from which it has supposedly removed itself) — and whose foreign policy is indistinguishable from that of Kofi Annan, viz., the UN is the only legitimate source of authority in the world and the answer to all international and national-security problems.

My view has been that this man, who is a quasi-traitor and anti-American as well as a vacuous, arrogant snob, could not be elected president, unless perhaps his opponent were falling apart before our eyes, and Bush hasn’t reached that stage yet. Regardless of the polls, regardless of what’s going on in the world of politics, it would be unimaginable and unprecedented for the U.S. to elect such a man.

That’s been my position. But now it occurs to me that there is another way of seeing it:
We are already living in a world in which the unimaginable and unprecedented have become the norm. At this very moment persons of the same sex are being “married” to each other in the state of Massachusetts, while the mainstream media celebrates this marvelous new development in American life. If this could happen, then anything could happen.

In other words, allowing (or failing to prevent) the same-sex marriage abomination in Massachusetts means that the election of an open anti-American as President of the United States is entirely possible.

One of these paradigms — we have no way of knowing which — will determine who is elected president in November. In any case, I no longer believe that Kerry has no realistic chance of winning.

Lawrence Auster is publisher of the View From The Right website at http://www.amnation.com/vfr/