In my last post about Kerry and his multimillion dollar estates, I forgot to mention the part about the means of transportation the Kerrys use to flit between them. Teresa Heinz Kerry’s private Gulfstream 5 jet, The Flying Squirrel, is worth about as much as all the homes put together~a mere $35 million.

Environmental advocates admit (although privately) they’d prefer their liberal donors fly commercial; some even call them outright hypocrites.

“I don’t own an SUV”, says John Kerry. “It’s the family’s.” This picture was taken at the Memorial Day parade in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Making the personal political is an American tradition. George Washington’s image in the popular historical imagination is tied not just to his victories as a general and president; he’s also the down-home farmer who chopped down the cherry tree.

By the same token, George W. Bush may be the ivy league son of a former president but when he cuts brush in Texas, he looks just like any average Joe.

These attempts to move down market are common, says Alan Brinkley, a historian at Columbia University. “Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison - they ran as log cabin boys, but they were aristocrats,” he says. What’s new, he says, is the Democrats’ rejection of that ethos, and an inability to notice that class still matters; that stepping onto a private jet while fighting for energy conservation looks less than consistent.

• He throws away someone else’s medals
• He drives someone else’s SUV
• He marries someone else’s wife
• He inherits someone else’s money
• Maybe someday he’ll be president of someone else’s country. How about France?

First, he distances himself from the soldiers in Vietnam, then he distances himself from his wife, then he distances himself from his family. This guy never had a position he wouldn’t change or an association he wouldn’t disavow. I think Clinton’s coveted position as sleaziest politician in history is in jeopardy. Kerry’s new book should be entitled “My Lies”. There are so many of them, I’m having a hard time keeping track.

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