If, God forbid, Kerry gets elected, the problems which drive the Left into a frenzy won’t go away.

Terrorism? Nope! I’m telling you, folks that ifi we pulled every American back from across the seas, America would still be the Great Satan to the Muslim world. Many of their autocracies rely on distracting their impoverished millions with an external enemy. There are only two, us and Israel. Kerry can pull a France and kowtow and appease, but it won’t matter, because to the Islamists, a whimpering enemy is just a little bit handier for the sword.

Medical costs? Read my previous rant and try to stop laughing. The dimmocrats are largely RESPONSIBLE for the medical care crisis BECAUSE of their unholy alliance with trial lawyers. Run your finger down the list of heavy dimmocrat contributors in just about any area and you’ll find a who’s who of trial lawyers and their wives.

Crime? As long as it’s never the criminal’s fault, crime will prosper. Want a glimpse of a solution? Look to the red states on the map. In counties (and parishes here in Louisiana) where almost every home has a gun, you don’t see many home robberies. Stop whining about the poor, misguided criminal and turn prisons into punishment. Just announce the fact that the commission of certain crimes means that we’re really not interested in a: rehabilitating your sorry a** and b: we don’t care that you lack entertainment and recreation while you’re serving a life sentence.

Poverty? Jesus said we’d always have the poor with us. Of course, no dimmocrat is going to give any credibility to the words from the Bible anyway, but it’s true. Taxing the “rich” isn’t going to pay for it. Any farmer knows that if you want more of something, you feed it and spend your effort on it. A farmer uses this and gets record-breaking yields of food. A bureaucrat ignores it and creates multi-generation poverty. Raising taxes will only stifle the economy and result in MORE poverty.

Jobs? This goes hand in hand with the poverty question. I looked at a check stub recently. My employer sends 30% to the government before I get a dime.

Then when I get my dime and go buy something, my state gets another 4% in state sales tax, and depending on where I spend the money, city and parish (this is Louisiana) each get a cut. Total sales tax runs 8.5 – 8.75%. There goes another chunk.

If I decide to own a vehicle, in addition to the sales tax, I get to “contribute” for license and registration, as well as a tax on EVERY gallon of fuel I use. (A lot of people don’t realize that the single biggest cost in a gallon of gas is tax) and it goes on and on…telphone? Taxes and fees. Boat? Taxes and fees. Home? Taxes and fees.

The government pulls the energy out of people who create and enhance and build, and it costs jobs. And the dimmocrats will want more taxes. They know well that “he who robs Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul.”

So it comes to pass that the traitorous bast*rd Kerry has chosen a running mate for his presidential bid. It is no wonder that Kerry chose John Edwards. Forty years ago another Massachusetts Brahmin augmented his ticket with a southern politician, except that time, the younger, better-looking one was from Massachusetts and was running for President. This time we have butt-ugly Kerry mated up with fifteen years younger Edwards.

Edwards is an exemplar of the wrongs of our legal (note that I did NOT say “justice”) system. He made his millions, yes, millions from contingency fees. How does this work? The lawyer takes a case that he thinks is a winner and when he does win, he takes a cut, 30% or better, from the settlement. In Kerry’s case, he convinced jurors that the horrors of a palsied baby were caused by failures of the doctor and hospital where said baby was born. Win a few million, and an attorney is on his way. Kerry’s new partner is good at this.

And so the dimmocrats continue down the path of talking out both sides of their mouths. Kerry bemoans the high costs of medical care, and his running mate is responsible to a great extent of making those costs climb.

There is not an arena in this country where costs have not been driven up by ambulance-chasing trial lawyers. You cannot turn on cable TV without seeing ads where lawyers are soliciting more clients for their suits. And in class-action suits, lawyers hit the lottery. They collect millions in fees and the members of the class for whom the suit was filed, the “victims”, they get only the saddest tokens for the settlement.

There are parts of the country where doctors are leaving the profession because of the high cost of insurance to protect themselves from the kind of suits John Edwards got rich on. And if Kerry pushes forth his intention to federalize health care, it’s going ot be really interesting, because you cannot sue the federal government, so one wonders where this will take malpractice lawyers.