The Truth About John Kerry
by David Keene and Ian Walters

There are only two important questions in the upcoming election--who is George W. Bush and who is John Kerry. The president has a four-year record upon which voters can make their evaluation but most Americans, even after the Democratic Convention, do not know the senator from Massachusetts.

Indeed, the Democratic Convention has muddied the waters. Sen. Kerry used a patriotic and moderate-sounding rhetoric in an election-year attempt to appeal to mainstream Americans to win their vote.

Our conclusion is that the Democrats are trying to put John Kerry through an extreme makeover.

But John Kerry has a 19-year record of votes in the Senate of the United States from which he cannot hide. The picture of Kerry's life given by the Democratic Convention of his service in Vietnam tells little of the story.

That is why the American Conservative Union has unveiled its blockbuster new book Who Is John Kerry?

Sen, Kerry began his post-Vietnam public service as a highly visible '60s anti-war activist, in league with the most extreme elements of that movement. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984, John Kerry has supported, fought for and voted for every cause du jour of the far left fringe of the Democrat Party.

John Kerry not only failed to support the military during the Vietnam conflict, he consistently voted to de-fund U.S. defense. He supported every big government program by grossly expanding nanny state entitlements and placing burdens on small businesses with onerous government regulations. When Kerry has been able to find time to serve his Massachusetts constituents by actually voting, he has amassed a voting record that is to the left of even Ted Kennedy.

In 1986, John Kerry warned that the judiciary was being threatened by a "narrowly ideological targeting of judicial nominees." Yet as a presidential candidate, Senator Kerry has said that he will "strictly enforce a Roe v. Wade litmus test when interviewing Supreme Court candidates." And although he argued that affirmative action "kept America thinking in racial terms" twelve years ago, today Kerry's campaign vows to preserve Affirmative Action, noting that he "consistently opposed efforts in the Senate to undermine or eliminate affirmative action programs."

Despite voting for the Patriot Act in 2001--and even writing parts of it himself, Mr. Kerry was quoted as saying, "It is time to end the era of John Ashcroft. That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties...'"

John Kerry is not a moderate and his life and voting clearly show his true colors. No extreme makeover can hide that fact. Who is John Kerry? shows the man under the makeup.