By Ann Coulter:

Kerry was indisputably brave in Vietnam, and it's kind of cute to see
Democrats pretend to admire military service.  Physical courage, like
chastity, is something liberals usually deride, but are tickled when it
accidentally manifests itself in one of their own.  One has to stand in
awe of Kerry's military service 33 years ago.  Of course, that's where
it ends, including with Kerry -- inasmuch as, upon his return from war
in 1970, he promptly began trashing his fellow Vietnam vets by calling
them genocidal murderers.

But if Bush can't talk to Kerry about the horrors of war, then Kerry
sure as hell can't talk to anyone about the plight of the middle class.
Kerry's life experience consists of living off other men's money by
marrying their wives and daughters.  For over 30 years, Kerry's primary
occupation has been stalking lonely heiresses.  Not to get back to his
combat experience, but Kerry sees a room full of wealthy widows as "a
target-rich environment." This is a guy whose experience dealing with
tax problems is based on spending his entire adult life being supported
by rich women.  What does a kept man know about taxes?

In 1970, Kerry married into the family of Julia Thorne -- a family
estimated to be worth about $300 million.  She got depressed, so he
promptly left her and was soon seen catting around with Hollywood
starlets, mostly while the cad was still married.  (Apparently, JFK
really was his mentor.)  Thorne is well-bred enough to say nothing ill
of her Lothario ex-husband.  He is, after all, the father of her
children -- a fact that never seemed to constrain him.

When Kerry was about to become the latest Heinz family charity, he
sought to have his marriage to Thorne annulled, despite the fact that it
had produced two children.  It seems his second meal ticket, Teresa
Heinz, wanted the first marriage annulled -- and Heinz is worth more
than $700 million.

Kerry claims he will stand up to powerful interests, but he can't even
stand up to his wife.  Heinz made Kerry sign a prenuptial agreement,
presumably aware of how careless he is with other people's property,
such as other people's Vietnam War medals, which Kerry threw on the
ground during a 1971 anti-war demonstration.

At pains to make Kerry sound like a normal American, his campaign has
described how Kerry risked everything, mortgaging his home in Boston to
help pay for his presidential campaign.  Technically, Kerry took out a
$6 million mortgage for "his share" of "the family's home" -- which was
bought with the Heinz family fortune.  Why should he spend his own
money?  He didn't throw away his own medals.  I'm sure the average
working stiff in Massachusetts can relate to a guy who borrows $6
million against his house to pay for TV ads.

Kerry's campaign has stoutly insisted that he will pay off the mortgage
himself, with no help from his rich wife.  Let's see: According to tax
returns released by his campaign, in 2002, Kerry's income was $144,091.  
But as The Washington Post recently reported, even a $5 million mortgage
paid back over 30 years at favorable interest rates would cost $30,389 a
month or $364,668 a year.

The Democrats' joy at nominating Kerry is perplexing.  To be sure,
liberals take a peculiar, wrathful pleasure in supporting pacifist
military types.  And Kerry's life story is not without a certain feral
aggression.  But if we're going to determine fitness for office based on
life experience, Kerry clearly has no experience dealing with problems
of typical Americans since he is a cad and a gigolo living in the lap of
other men's money.

Kerry is like some character in a Balzac novel, an adventurer twirling
the end of his mustache and preying on rich women.  This low-born poseur
with his threadbare pseudo-Brahmin family bought a political career with
one rich woman's money, dumped her, and made off with another heiress to
enable him to run for president.  If Democrats want to talk about
middle-class tax cuts, couldn't they nominate someone who hasn't been a
poodle to rich women for the past 33 years?

Don't forget -- John Kerry is strong on defense:
* He voted to kill the Bradley Fighting Vehicle
* He voted to kill the M-1 Abrams Tank
* He voted to kill every Aircraft carrier laid down from 1988
* He voted to kill the Aegis anti aircraft system
* He voted to Kill the F-15 strike eagle
* He voted to Kill the Block 60 F-16
* He voted to Kill the P-3 Orion upgrade
* He voted to Kill the B-1
* He voted to Kill the B-2
* He voted to Kill the Patriot anti Missile system
* He voted to Kill the FA-18
* He voted to Kill the B-2
* He voted to Kill the F117

In short, he voted to kill every military appropriation for the
development and deployment of every weapons systems since 1988 to
include the battle armor for our troops.  With Kerry as president our
Army will be made up of naked men running around with sticks and clubs.

He also:
* voted to kill all anti terrorism activities of every agency of the US
Government
* and to cut the funding of the FBI by 60%,
* to cut the funding for the CIA by 80%,
* and cut the funding for the NSA by 80%.
But then he voted to increase OUR - the USA's - funding for U.N.
operations by 800%!!!

If you are interested in the character of the next president of the
United States, please forward this to those you want to inform.  We do
not need a "character" as President