Stop the presses everyone - John Kerry said something stupid! I know, a shock, eh? After all, he has NEVER said anything stupid before. I'm sure by now you've heard the quote where he said, "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq". Now, once he got called out on it, he tried to say it was a botched joke about President Bush. Well, considering Kerry has botched pretty much everything while in office, I wouldn't be surprised. If it was a botched joke about Bush, I find it funny that Kerry would say Bush didn't do well in school. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't Kerry's and Bush's college grades made public during the 2004 election, and weren't Kerry's grades LOWER than Bush's? But now it's left to us to decide whether it was a slam against the troops, or it really was a botched joke. I honestly think that through his supposed botched joke the truth came out. It's no secret he hates the military and will do whatever he needs to drag them down. Look at what he did when he came back from Vietnam. How in the heck a guy like this is allowed to serve as a Senator baffles me. And here is something to remember when you go to vote next week - Ford HEAVILY campaigned for Kerry here in Tennessee. Let's even leave this most recent quote out for a moment. Those of us with our head on straight know Kerry has been anti-military his entire political career. The only time he voted for anything pro-military was when it was the popular thing to do, and then he would come back later on and try to spin it like he was misled or thought it was right at the time and blah blah blah. Ford supported this guy in 2004, so what makes me think that Ford is all of the sudden strong on defense? Absolutely nothing. Ford is a politician through and through who will construct his image to appeal to whoever he needs to for his own benefit.

Now another sad part about this is that I bet the best Corker's camp will come up with is to ask Ford to side with or distance himself from Kerry's statement. They won't come out and use this quote as a reminder of Kerry's anti-military stance and how Ford campaigned for him in 2004. If they do, you heard it here first. Remember, Ford did a very Kerry-ish thing when was asked on Imus in the Morning last year that if he knew then what he knows now, would he have voted for the military to go into Iraq, and he said "no". Ford wants to appeal to both sides, and it's pathetic that Corker won't call him out on this. I do, and remember that if Corker's people take this direction, you heard it here first.

I often speak of the lack of guts the Republican party has, and here's another example. I read today that Michael Chertoff, the Homeland Security Secretary, stated that "Without a temporary-worker program, getting control of the border by 2008 is very, very difficult". No, the only thing difficult about it is by doing nothing, which our government seems more than willing to do. I think it's pretty simple - take the money away from the TONS of worthless government programs and put that money towards building the fences and hiring more border guards. The only reason Chertoff would tout this "guest worker" garbage is to keep things moving towards this SPP plan I've been talking about. Makes one think, doesn't it? To hear the Homeland Security Secretary say that we'll have a hard time securing our border without Bush's guest-worker program shows complete incompetence...unless there's more to it. Again, I hate to sound like some nut-job conspiracy theory guy, but it really makes me wonder more about the SPP. And I still have YET to hear anything about this from Ford or Corker. Big surprise.

People have asked me many times what makes me different from the "real" candidates when I talk to them, and this is another example. I have no problem calling someone out on their garbage. Whether it's Kerry, Ford, or Chertoff, I have no problem. And it's time to have someone in Washington who will do this.