September 02, 2004, 06:00 AM
Why the President will win big in November
Put your partisanship aside for a moment. I want you to consider Zell Miller's speech last night, not as a diehard republican or democrat, but rather as an open minded American voter trying to decide on which candidate would best lead our country for the next four years.
The pollsters tell us there are actually undecided open- minded voters who have not yet made up their minds. Their numbers are small, but they could decide the winner of this election. With about 60 days left until the election, the pollsters say about 18 percent of voters are still undecided. However, more than half of those voters are leaning towards one candidate or the other. That leaves about eight to nine percent of the voting public still unsure of whom to vote for in November. According to the exit polls from the last presidential election in 2000 about one third of voters described themselves as republicans, another third, democrats and the last third, independent.
Now that we have established that you are an independent for the moment and qualified the block of voters you represent, lets add more factors. You and the other open-minded voters saw Democrat Senator Zell Miller speak last night. Here is my question to you and all of the undecided voters. After hearing Miller list, in great detail, the 20 year, anti-military voting record of Senator John Kerry, how could you or any undecided voter possibly consider voting for Kerry? We are at war.
Our enemy thinks nothing of cutting off the heads of innocent people. On 9-11 they killed thousands of our citizens. They slaughter their own countrymen and this very morning, hold hundreds of children and adults hostage at a school in Russia, threatening to kill all of them.
Our enemies would slit the throat of every American, Christian and Jew if they could. They would detonate a nuclear device killing hundreds of thousands of Americans if they had the chance. In a world that is so frightening and dangerous how could any rational thinking American elect a man to lead our war against these dark age barbarians who has proven over 20 years that he hates the very idea of American military power. As Miller laid out, last night in his speech, Kerry has voted against every weapon system that has crossed his desk. He voted against the first Gulf War, he voted time and time again to cut our intelligence budgets and even now in our current war, voted for the war, but against funding it and giving our soldiers the tools they needed to protect their lives and win the fight.
A truly open minded person would not subject our soldiers to having Kerry as their supreme commander. He has shown a personal distain for soldiers. His comments about our soldiers when he returned from Vietnam bordered on treason. What would be the morale of our troops under Kerry? Newt Gingrich reported yesterday on Fox News that Kerry had three secret meetings with communist leaders in Paris when he returned home from Vietnam. If indeed this can be proven, this would be a punishable offense. At the time Kerry was still on active duty with the Navy and was prohibited from meeting our enemies.
No open-minded rational human being, no matter their concerns about our current President, could possibly hand over our safety, security and armed forces to such a man. In fact, I don’t know how any honest, clear-thinking, democrat could support such a man. After all, democrats have families too. Democrats don’t want to be killed by terrorists either. Only the dumbest, most naive, most partisan democrat could vote for Kerry.
From the very beginning of this race I have believed the President would win and win by a much larger margin than most think possible. I have believed this because I knew at some point all Americans would know the Kerry record. Zell Miller’s detailed account of Kerry’s anti military record last night was news to many. In the end, Americans will make the right decision and return the President to office for four more years. As Zell Miller said last night, his family is more important than his party. Americans will also make that decision.
You may now return to being a partisan for your favorite party.
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