Trust - Part 1

The flap over the forged documents bring up a larger issue. Trust.

Many are making the case that in this forged document case it is the main stream media that has again damaged themselves and who continues to lose the confidence of the public while Internet sites continue to show that they will do the fact checking and heavy lifting required to get the truth. While I agree with all of this - I think most people have completely skipped over an important point in this story.

This Presidential election will be decided by trust. The person the public trusts the most will be elected. It's that simple. It's also that cut and dried that John Kerry and his campaign have squandered any chance of being trusted by the public enough to win the election.

The Swift Boat vets call into question John Kerry's integrity and he fails to respond.

Kerry tells reporters that he never falls and that it was a SOB Secret Service Agent who knocked him down while he was snowboarding.

When speaking to a Cuban-American crowd in Florida - Kerry says that he voted FOR the Burton-Helms bill when the fact is he voted AGAINST it.

That's not his SUV - it belongs to his wife's family.

Mary Ann Knowles did not have to work through her chemotherapy like Kerry said she did at the DNC.

Christmas in Cambodia? Magic hats?

A Silver Star with a "V"?

Look up Steve Pitkin if you haven't had enough of the Kerry aversion to the truth.

Now the forged military memos that were geared to smear President Bush turn out to be forgeries. All that is left is for Theresa to say something like, "You'd have to be an idiot to believe our campaign had anything to do with this."

Kerry will still get a large percentage of the votes because some people wouldn't vote Republican if their lives depended on it. However, there is no way that Kerry will now get a large enough percent of the votes to get elected. He has used up his last benefit of the doubt.

I can already hear people saying that my idea doesn't hold water because Clinton was elected twice and he wasn't trusted. Clinton was trusted though - he was trusted to be competent. You might not have been able to trust Clinton to answer the question "where were you last night?" but you could trust him not to screw up the economy.

When you think of John Kerry now - you think of Michael Moore and Kitty Kelly. When you think of President Bush - you think of veterans coming back from Iraq saying that they believe in the job we are doing and that they trust Bush to see the job through.

This election is now over and the two candidates are just playing out the string.