Kerry has also tried to frighten young people into thinking that if Bush wins, they may face a military draft. Speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, Kerry claimed, ''With George Bush, the plan for Iraq is more of the same and the great potential of the draft, because if we go it alone, I don't know how you do it with the current overextension.''
And Kerry and his surrogates have consistently tried to convince blacks that the Republicans have a plan to cheat them of their votes -- which they claim is how Bush won the presidency in 2000, despite the lack of evidence to back up such a scurrilous claim. With polls showing President Bush has substantially increased his support in the black community, Kerry wants to make blacks believe the president is little different than Bull Connors. One campaign flyer even shows water hoses being turned on black voters during the 1950s, with the clear implication that Republicans would do the same today to keep blacks from the polls if they could.
Kerry knows these charges are untrue -- but still he makes them and encourages his supporters to do likewise. And his run for the presidency is not the first time in which John Kerry has been willing to spread lies to accomplish his aims. In 1971, in an attempt to undermine support for the war in Vietnam, he went so far as to claim that he had personally committed atrocities while an officer in Vietnam, something he now admits was untrue. To this day, however, Kerry has never apologized to those soldiers whose honor he sullied when he accused them of having "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of Vietnam."
Lynne Cheney was right. This is not a good man -- and that is the reason voters should reject him on Nov. 2.