(Image of the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division of the Minnesota National Guard stolen from The Drudge Report)

I really think the Republican party should thank bagillionaire Sen. John Kerry (D-Taxachusetts) for his utterance in Los Angeles on Monday that if a person doesn't get a good education "you'll be stuck in Iraq." (Thing is this, as a political party fence sitter I am issue oriented and who I feel will follow through on my beliefs in Washington DC will be the person I ultimately cast my vote for. I'm no friend of President Bush, yet how I see the Democrats scrambling in every direction just to influence a popular vote and advance the party makes me sick. Republicans do it to, but lately one sees how the Democrats are panicing in that they have now lost several elections.)

Sen. Kerry claims he misspoke, botched a joke. Just to complete the usual ways how politics works in this country, he will probably now claim he's addicted to alcohol or drugs and will go into rehab. And then pledge after that he will go help build houses poverty stricken people in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans.

The best part of this whole mess is watching all of the Democrats cancelling their upcoming campaign appearances with Sen. Kerry and Hillary saying "no wonder we lost in 2004" and referring to the comments as "downright stupid." It was Pres. Reagan who always reminded his Republicans when things didn't go right to follow what he called the "11th Commandment": Thou Shalt Not Eat They Fellow Republicans. Just when you thought the Democrats may have their house in order with absolute unity, you realize that they are just as fragmented as the Republicans, which only lends credence to new non-partisan political groups as "UNITY 08" who are representing millions and millions of Americans such as myself who are SICK of the partisan infighting/lack of leadership which is so pervasive now in Washington.