Dying for a Mistake
October 7, 2004
Before it became universally accepted (excluding France) that John Kerry is an inconsistent pathological liar, he once queried, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” Oh come on Senator Kerry, let’s be a little inclusive here...how do you ask a child to be the last child to die for a mistake? As we all know, Kerry has a deep reverence for life.
Kerry’s joie de vivre derives from his twofold experience as a Swift boat vet and a prosecutor. His opposition to capital punishment is laid at the doorstep of his (very brief) time in Vietnam which, “...translated the killing into a more real event.” And his prosecutorial stint taught him that, “There are cases in the system where there are miscarriages.” My, my...what an ironic descriptive.
Consequently, the good senator has concluded that, “I'm opposed to the death penalty...I think it is worse to take somebody and put them in a small cell for the rest of their life, deprived of their freedom, never to be paroled.” He does of course exclude terrorists form his leniency...”I am for the death penalty for terrorists because terrorists have declared war on your country.” As if a terrorist is endowed with greater Satanesque evils than the pervert that just raped and murdered your loved one.
And moving from the domestic to the international front finds a similar pro-life bent in Kerry’s thinking. During a 1997 Senate floor speech hysterically entitled WE MUST BE FIRM WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN, in which he called for “a strong U.N. military response that will materially damage, if not totally destroy, as much as possible of the suspected infrastructure for developing and manufacturing weapons of mass destruction,” Kerry reminded then-President Clinton that, “the greatest care must be taken to reduce collateral damage to the maximum extent possible....”
Expanding on his concern for the casualties of war, Kerry lamented over American deaths in Iraq during the first debate...“More soldiers killed in June than before. More in July than June. More in August than July. More in September than in August.” Hey, who can blame him? We have lost a bit over 1000 lives already. Anybody who purports to be cavalier about death is either: (1) a liar; (2) a coward; or (3) a dancing primate a.k.a. an Islamic terrorist...or possibly all three. But there’s something perversely inconsistent about Kerry’s liberal reverence for life.
Death is a terrible thing. World War I claimed over 100,000 American lives. World War II cost this country almost 500,000 dead. Vietnam saw close to 60,000 American deaths. Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, there have been 927 executions in the United States. Even the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that 43,220 people died in American traffic crashes last year. No wonder John Kerry is against smoking, assault weapons, war, capital punishment and every other harbinger of death. He celebrates life...or does he?
A closer look at the Kerry voting record exhibits a unilateral proclivity for death. During his Senate career, Kerry has voted at least 30 times in support of abortion. Since 1973, there have been over 44 million abortions performed in the U.S. Since 1995, Kerry has voted consistently to sanction the murder of a fetus every 20 seconds. He did however vote once against forced abortions in China...before he voted for it.
Even though Kerry claims that, “...he's personally opposed to abortion and believes life begins at conception,” he steadfastly believes that abortions, "need to be moved out of the fringes of medicine and into the mainstream of medical practice.” More to the point, Kerry has promised that, “...if elected, to appoint to the Supreme Court only persons who support the Roe v. Wade decision.” It’s like saying that you’re personally opposed to extramarital affairs while you’re in bed with your mistress.
Conveniently, Kerry is personally and politically opposed to capital punishment, but he can only be personally opposed to abortion while he politically sentences one fetus every 20 seconds to death. May I please inquire as to how perversely inconsistent that position is? How can you have the conscience to sanction the murder of over 1 million totally defenseless fetuses a year while simultaneously having the gall to go easy on creeps who murder grandmothers and little children? At least when conservatives are inconsistent they want to ice murderers and spare innocent unborns.
In logic so perverse that it could only spring from a liberal stem cell, Kerry rationalizes that, “...dying is scary for a while, but in the end, the punishment is gone. When you’re alive and you’re deprived of your freedom each day and you’re in tough circumstances...for the rest of your living days until God decides to take you, you know, that is tough....” I guess that having your skull impaled is the easy way out for a “partial birth” fetus.
In Kerryland, degenerate murderers have a God, but the helpless unborn can be frolicking in embryonic fluid one second and brutally dismembered the next second. Maureen Dowd might call it a “Mini-Me” version of an Iraqi beheading. The murderer gets his “rights”, while the slop that was once a living person is spit into a specimen bag for disposal.
So, when Kerry accuses the President of making, “a colossal error of judgment,” he should rethink his own logic. How can you oppose capital punishment while simultaneously supporting the slaughter of over 44 million innocent fetuses? How can you put murderers in the hands of God while condemning the unborn to the vacuum tubes of Planned Parenthood? The next time Kerry feels the need to ask a ponderous question, he might try asking, “How do you ask a fetus to be the last fetus to die for a mistake?”
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