By Jack Wheeler

If you were to describe in one word the Democrats fantasizing they can beat Bush in November, you would say Dean is a hothead, Clark an egomaniac, Sharpton a hustler, Edwards an ambulance-chaser, Kucinch a kook, Lieberman a moderate, and Kerry…?

The word that Democrats want to apply to Kerry is “electable.”  What does this mean?  Exactly nothing, for that’s all he is -- that somehow he possesses some magical capacity to defeat GW.

The truth is that John Kerry isn’t from Massachusetts.  He’s from Oakland, California -- because Gertrude Stein’s observation of Oakland applies so accurately to him: 

"The problem with Oakland is that there is no there there.”

There is no there in John Kerry’s soul.  Take most any position he’s embraced over his 19 years in the Senate, and you’ll find at some point he embraced the opposite.  As Winston Churchill would say, Kerry is a pudding without a theme.

All you really need to know about this guy’s character is that in 1971 at an Anti-Vietnam War Rally, he publicly threw away someone else’s medals pretending they were his, and now displays his actual medals on a wall in his office.  Integrity is not his strong suit.

However “electable” Kerry may be, he is far, far from having the nomination sewn up.  Try on this question:  Despite all the banner headlines proclaiming Kerry to have “won” in New Hampshire and Iowa, how come Howard Dean has more delegates than John Kerry?  As of today (1/30/04,  Dean has 113 to Kerry’s 94.

That’s because the Democrat  Primaries were designed by Rube Goldberg.  If you’re a Democrat, you don’t have to win to win.

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