OH IT'S TRULY SAD THAT WE DON'T MEET HIS STANDARDS – AT 9:22 P.M. ET:  What's with these Democrats?  Their entire political approach seems to boil down to, "We're smart, everyone else is stupid."  Now the clown prince of elitism, John Kerry, gives his own assessment of our lowly status:

BOSTON—Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry unleashed a broadside Thursday against Republican "obstructionism," saying the GOP and its talk-show allies have created a "period of know-nothingism" in the country.

With his party braced for defeats in the midterm elections, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee told the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce that a Republican machine -- fueled by talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck -- has undermined progress and misled the public into believing Democrats created the country's current economic problems.

Kerry singled out attacks on an energy deal he was negotiating with Republicans, which fell apart amid criticism of an emissions-trading program. Some 20 Senate candidates are now opposing the proposed deal in their campaigns.

"It's absurd. We've lost our minds," said a clearly exasperated Kerry. "We're in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don't weigh in. It's all short-order, lowest common denominator, cheap-seat politics."

COMMENT:  Yeah, right.  We're all that dumb.  We all reject "truth and science and facts."  No, sir.  We just don't think you've got the facts on your side.  And as for science, perhaps you'd like to explain the growing number of first-class scientific minds who are rejecting the glib "climate change" models that never seem to work out.

John Kerry has made a career out of being wrong.  He once went to Moscow and concluded that the Soviet Union was weak because half the lights were out.  Of course, he never was taken to a missile-launching submarine, where, I assure you, the lights worked, just as the Soviet tanks had worked (superbly) in World War II. 

It's not "elites" we oppose.  It's their arrogant, I-can't-be-wrong attitude.  It's the Kerrys we don't like.

October 28, 2010