This will be my last post for a week.  I will be back after a hunting trip to regain a grip on sanity.  I will be back in time to vote.  This year, more than ever, every sane vote counts.

On Tuesday, October 19, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards told a group in Hibbing, Minnesota that he and John Kerry would fight for their right to “go in the national parks and national forests and ride on a snowmobile”.

Meanwhile, on johnkerry.com, it is stated that “John Kerry will reinstate the Clinton Administration’s phase-out of noisy and polluting snowmobiles that have been overrunning some of our most precious lands, including Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park. “. 

While not everyone cares about the snowmobile issue, we all should care about integrity.  Northern Minnesota is home to one of the largest snowmobile manufacturers in the country.  Minnesota is home to 200,000 snowmobile riders.  With his pandering to that audience, he showed, once again, his true colors.  Meanwhile, he and Kerry have every intention (as stated on Kerry’s own website) of taking away the right of those same people to sell and ride snowmobiles.  Now think about other issues such as those relating to the first and second amendments of the Constitution. 

John Kerry and John Edwards will do and say everything possible to win this election so that they can begin to carry out their REAL mission.  Many of us already understand that mission.  And if they are elected it will lead to the weakening of this nation and to even greater vulnerability to terrorism.

Source:  Editorial, Senator Norm Coleman Minneapolis StarTribune, October 26.