Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that a member of the Democrat Party (or any other for that matter) must run for president. The mainstream media tells us every day that the decisive issues are Iraq and the economy. Since John Kerry can't find a solid footing on security and defense and doesn't understand the economy, it would be better for the country if he dropped out of the race. The partisan battle is distracting us all from serious discussion and debate about serious issues.

Although the two parties don't want family policy to be included in their debate, it's obvious that most Americans disagree. This is another area where Kerry wants credit without facing serious questions. His web site paints the picture that he has been one of the leaders in moving family policy from the states and our homes to place the most personal of issues under federal political control. Chaos has ensued. Marriage and family as we knew it are legally disintegrating. Parenthood can be assigned arbitrarily. But this is an issue that neither candidate is facing seriously, and Kerry is the least serious.

Even though the Federal Marriage Amendment, supported by President Bush, treats a symptom rather than the disease, will take years to process, and will probably not pass in the end, it is at least a superficial display of concern. The president's support was belated and seemed to lack energy or any real awareness of the serious nature of the problem, it's a place to start a debate. But against John Kerry's indifference, the debate hasn't gone anywhere. George Bush showed his concern for fathers and traditional families by attending a NASCAR race and then went home. Maybe there was something in the symbolism. Parents would probably like to go to a NASCAR race without worrying about whether some bureaucrat will reassign their kids to a homosexual couple while they're there.

It seems like John Kerry is Al Gore all over again, except without so much of the pure partisan hatred generated by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Ah yes, the Clintons. Just another typical left-wing political couple like the Ceausescus and Milosevics. When Hillary becomes president, maybe we can finally get some of those mass murders of political opposition groups to show how tolerant and accepting we are of other cultural norms. Just for fun, they could lob some bombs into the desert somewhere to piss off the Arabs; then run away and forget to tell the next administration much about the build-up of terrorist activities.

Kerry's recent expression of whole-hearted support for killing babies (abortion) is amateur stuff – nothing new – lacking real imagination. We've already done the Gender War and most of the rest of the west is over it. (International leftist movements have really fallen apart since the fall of the Soviet Union.) Since Kerry hasn't grasped the battle for supremacy by odd sexual orientation by the horns, he hasn't been effective at dividing the nation into warring factions. It may be time for a real American hero, and John Kerry could be the one. He could tell us honestly that the Democrat's participation in the competition between the two partisan powers has nothing to do with democracy and walk away.