THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VIII, Issue # 90, May 28, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
HAS JOHN KERRY MORPHED INTO AL GORE?
By Alan Caruba
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, PARTISAN POLITICS, & THE U.S. PRESIDENCY: JOHN F.
KERRY AS A CLONE OF ALBERT GORE -- JOHN KERRY EMBRACES THE ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY & AGENDA IN ORDER
TO RETAIN HIS POSITION AS LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY & MAKE ANOTHER RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY
FULL STORY:
The British author and critic, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), said that a phony kind of patriotism was the last refuge of a
scoundrel. These days, it’s environmentalism.
When a candidate for President really doesn’t have any good ideas on how to keep the economy going strong, deal with
America’s enemies or any of the other practical necessities to insure our future, they always rely on the “environment” as their
pitch for votes.
In the past, when a man was defeated in his quest for the Presidency, he usually had the good sense and good grace to sink
into anonymity, emerging only upon his death to receive the accolades that he hardly deserved in life. But not Al Gore or John
F. Kerry.
Al Gore, Liberal Leftist Democrat and former Vice President who ran for President in 2000, is running around promoting his
End-Of-The-World movie about global warming, spewing forth more hot air than all the industrialized nations combined.
John Kerry, Liberal Leftist Democrat who continues to represent the State of Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate, ran for the
Presidency in 2004 and was defeated by a margin of some three million popular votes. Senator Kerry lost votes every time he
tried thinking on his feet. It was always a mistake.
As if the war in Vietnam was the only seminal event in the lives of Americans, Kerry depicted himself as a hero “reporting for
duty” and tried very hard to play down his previous testimony before a congressional committee that accused his fellow
soldiers of being war criminals who committed atrocities. Ever the two-faced hypocrite, Kerry still inveighs against the U.S.
invasion of Iraq, while mouthing support for our troops.
In January, 2006, an Associated Press story began by noting:
“It’s almost as if Sen. John Kerry never stopped running
for President. He still jets across the country, raising
millions of dollars and rallying Democrats. He still stalks
the TV news show circuit, scolding President Bush at
every turn.”
These days, Kerry has morphed into the clone of Al Gore. In his quest for the Presidency, Kerry has created a committee, called
Keeping America’s Promise, in order to have another shot at the Democratic Party’s nomination. In the process, he is opposing
“socalled energy policies written by Big Oil” and is against “sacrificing clean water, clean air, and our national parks so that the
special interests can make more money.”
Making more money is why America has an eleven trillion dollar economy. For reasons unknown to rational people, our current
energy policies, promulgated in part by the U.S. Senate, involve a ban on drilling for copious amounts of oil in Alaska’s ANWR
or anywhere off-shore of America. Soon enough, Red China will be sucking oil just off the coast of Cuba, which is just off the
coast of Florida!
According to Kerry, Republicans are “anti-environment,” “threatening the Arctic Refuge,” “selling off our national forests,”
“weakening environmental standards” and, if we all vote for him, he will put America “on the path to genuine energy
independence.”
Kerry proposes to do this by “requiring utilities to gradually increase the portion of electricity produced from renewable sources
such as wind, biomass, geothermal, and solar energy.” This is complete and utter blather. If they were viable, efficient sources
of energy, they would be in use right now.
If Kerry wants to win votes in New Jersey, he should be advised that its largest daily newspaper recently ran an editorial titled,
“Don’t Make Jersey a Wind Power Guinea Pig.” Even the senior Senator from Massachusetts, Teddy Kennedy, doesn’t want a
vast wall of wind machines spoiling the view from his ancestral home in Hyannis Port.
It gets worse. Kerry wants “a mandate that agriculture will provide 20% of the total energy consumed in the United States by
2020.” He wants Congress to enact “energy efficiency measures to decrease energy use by 20% in 2020.” He wants “twenty
percent of all passenger cars and trucks on the road” to be “high-efficiency, low emissions hybrids by 2020.” And, finally,
“Congress should act to eliminate America’s oil imports from the Middle East by 2020.” But please do not drill for any oil
anywhere in America!
These draconian and largely insane proposals constitute the bulk of Kerry’s known campaign platform. He may yet include the
Osama bin Laden plank advocating the nation’s complete surrender and retreat from the Middle East
When will Americans be rid of Senator Kerry? As Boston Herald columnist, Howie Carr, noted in January, “Everyone in
Massachusetts, including his ostensible supporters, knows what a complete fraud Kerry is and always has been.” His current
efforts to campaign for the Presidency once more were, said Carr, “delusional.” These words, of course, could just as easily be
applied to Al Gore.
Do not, however, discount the totally bereft Democratic Party’s capacity for self-delusion. It is too soon to say who will emerge
as the Party’s choice, but consider yourself sufficiently warned that John F. Kerry still wants to be your next Commander in
Chief.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
American Politics & Political Competition
American Government & the U.S. Presidency
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
© Alan Caruba 2006
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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