HUBRIS AND STUPIDITY

This is a speech I am delivering to the Council For National Policy in New York on the eve of the Republican Convention.

One surefire way to make yourself really stupid is to acquire an overload of what the Greeks called hubris, the overweening pride that leads to one’s doom. The ancient Greeks had observed time and again the causal connection between hubris and stupidity. If they were with us today, they would tell us that anyone possessed of this self-destructive synthesis needs psychiatric counseling instead of trying to be President of the United States.

If there is one word that epitmomizes John Kerry it is arrogant. Equally appropriate would be pompous, pretentious, condescending, and vain. Hubris is the essence of John Kerry’s character, which is why we must add the following words to adequately describe him: stupid, moronic, and imbecilic.

I think any objective observer seeing Kerry base his entire campaign for the presidency on a contrived myth of four months in Vietnam acquiring band-aid Purple Hearts and a fantasy that he had the support of Vietnam Veterans whom he had denounced as war criminals – such an observer would conclude that Kerry is mentally imbalanced. In a word, nuts – actually delusional, estranged from reality. No metaphors, no hyperbole.

As columnist Mark Steyn puts it: “What sort of idiot would make the centerpiece of his presidential campaign four months of proud service in a war he’s best known for opposing?”

The answer is the sort of idiot whose brains have been turned into jello by egomania. The answer is the sort of idiot who would choose a New Age wacko conman as his running mate. John Edwards is far more than a sleazy ambulance chaser. One way he made ill-gotten millions was to convince gullible juries (members of which were specifically chosen for their uneducated stupidity) that he was “channeling” dead babies who, he said, were speaking to him from beyond the grave.

Such idiocy is infectious. It has infected the entire Democrat Party, so poisoned with pathological Bush-hatred that they are blind to Kerry’s fatal flaws. Those flaws are legion. In addition to his insufferable pomposity is that John Kerry is actually from Oakland, California, not Massachusetts. You didn’t know that, did you? For as poet Gertrude Stein said, “The problem with Oakland is that there is no there there.”

There’s no there there for Kerry. The man’s an empty suit. He’s Senator Flip Flop because he has no substance, no gravitas. He has nothing but those four months in ‘Nam. His candidacy is based on those four months because there’s nothing else to base it on. This is why in his entire hour-long acceptance speech at the Democrat Convention, he never once talked about his record and achievements during his 19 years in the Senate.

Besides, let’s face it – Americans are not going to elect someone who looks like a cross between Herman Munster, Lurch, and Gomer Pyle.

Yet here is his biggest negative of all. John Kerry is a wimp.

This is the real reason his campaign is going to implode. He can’t take the heat. He was the kid in grade school who “can dish it out but can’t take it.” One can only imagine the derision Harry Truman, who was fond of saying, “If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen,” would have had for Kerry.

Any and all criticisms of Kerry, no matter how legitimate such as about his voting record much less those of the Swiftees, he regards as an “attack.” Any criticism is an affront to him and unjustified. All criticisms of him are “vicious,” products of the crooked, lying Republican “smear machine.” The guy’s a pansy, a crybaby, a sheep in wolf’s clothing. All the tough-guy “Bring it on!” manly-man macho-strut is an act.

No one with any genuine self-confidence has such a diaphanously thin skin. He is going to do an El Foldo. He is going to crack under pressure.

I predict that the Kerry campaign is going to implode, that George Bush will clean Kerry’s clock in the debates, that the election will be a Bush Blow-Out with Bush winning over 55% of the vote.

Of course, that’s not even counting Hillary’s October Surprise. Remember that the only way Hillary can run for President in 2008 is to make sure Kerry loses in 2004. Hillary Clinton is George Bush’s ace in the hole.

So we can be optimistic and confident about the election – but we cannot be complacent. Let me ask you a few questions:

Do you want America to lose the war on terrorism? Yes or no?

Do you want to give the French a veto on American foreign policy?

Do you want to turn over our national sovereignty to the United Nations?

Do you want America to be in a continual state of apology to the world for its existence?

Do you want to abandon the missile defense program and leave us defenseless against Chinese and North Korean nuclear missiles?

Do you want America to lose the war in Iraq?

Do you want abortionists, homosexuals, and anti-Christians to take over American culture?

Do you want abortionists, homosexuals, and anti-Christians to take over the Supreme Court?

Do you want Michael Moore to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House?

In other words, to sum it up, do you want to turn our country over to pro-abortion, pro-homosexual “marriage,” America-hating moral lunatics utterly incapable of defending America from Moslem terrorism? Yes or no?

If not, then it is your moral obligation to do everything in your power to ensure the re-election of George W. Bush.

One of the best ways is to make sure that no one you know who calls themselves conservative cops out and sits on their hands November 2.

Folks, how many of you here are married? How many times has your husband or wife done something that infuriated you, that made you go “aaaaarrrrgggghhhh!”? But you love them anyway. Right? (Just checking.) It is in just this way that we should love George Bush.

No president in American history has been subjected to more vicious, pathological, deranged hatred than George Bush. Yet he and Laura have withstood it with superhuman dignity and grace. He and his politics are far from perfect, but he is a man of true courage and integrity, a true Christian whom God has sent to protect America in an hour of direst need.

Today, the presidency of George Bush is the only thing standing in the way of the assault of Moslem terrorism upon America. That is why if you hate America, you’ll vote for John Kerry – or Ralph Nader, or some other Third Party non-entity, or sit on your ideologically pure hands. But if you love America and want to protect her against her enemies, you’ll vote for George W. Bush.