…is this speech by Crispin Sartwell, advice to a group of College Democrats.

One excerpt doesn’t do it justice, but I’ll try:

Here’s what I believe about John Kerry. On the Patriot Act, on No Child Left Behind, on war, on gay marriage, on whatever: in every case he voted and spoke with one goal: getting elected president. For Kerry and the Democratic leadership, getting elected was more important that a thousand American lives, more important than tens of thousands of Iraqi lives, more important than the Constitution. Now of course this is more or less just the reality of American politics. But, um, it is morally monstrous. I actually admire a straight-up enthusiastic murderer more than someone who with eyes fully open endorses murder in order to further a certain set of personal ambitions. I do not believe that our sad little species offers up any more despicable choice. Kill because you believe it’s the right thing to do and you may be terribly, terribly wrong. Kill because killing polls well and you’re not even worth frying.

Read it all.

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