Dear Senator Kerry:
I am Designated Letter Writer for the guys down to Daryl's Bait Shop here in
Lagniappe, Louisiana. We have been shaking our heads over your stumbling
campaign.
It ain't so much we like you or your Party, but you bein' a fellow American,
born in the U S of A, we don't want you to disgrace yourself. Here are 10
helpful hints we worked up for you: (More if you want them. Let us know.)
1.) We know you served in Nam. You'd do yourself a favor if you didn't keep
mentioning it every time someone pokes a microphone in your face. Geez, it
was 35 years ago you did that for what was it, four months? Some of us
Daryl's Bait Shop guys spent more time than that on chow lines.
2.) Get your stories straight. Admit you threw your or someone's medals and/or
ribbons over the Capitol fence in '71, and you went touring around with Jane
Fonda, and you testified falsely to atrocities by US troops. You ought to
say that was all a youthful mistake. We've made a few. We'll understand.
3.) It's OK, you can talk French to French reporters if you want to, we don't
mind. Smilin' Jack Boudreau can speak French, and we elected him Chief of
the Lagniappe Volunteer Fire Company. We're not bigots. We call 'em as we
see 'em, just make up our minds.
4.) Sen. Kerry, why aren't you touting your good luck in snaggin, not one, but
two, rich wives? Here at Daryl's, we often wonder what it would be like to
have a really rich wife. We speculate just how big a bass boat we could buy,
along with one of them new Dodge Hemi trucks to pull it to the crick. Smilin
Jack always points out how it's his cousins, Marvin and Dickweed, who appear
in them Dodge Hemi commercials, still they can't afford one of their own.
You don't have to cook that ketchup, do you? Come on, show the world how
lucky you are. We here in the South respect achievement and don't begrudge
someone's good fortune even if he's a politician.
5.) Me and Boudreau wonder why you ain't going to the wrasslin matches to get
votes? We've seen videotape of you on the ski slopes. You got some good
moves, looks like you already know how to take a fall. All us here (except
Freddie Dobbs and Herm Harrison) are great fans of wrasslin. Not that we'd
vote for you just because you was one. Armen Yazoo is a wrasslin maniac, but
none of us would vote for him, even if he was running only for dogcatcher.
So you got to tread easy on showing you're Joe Sixpack who just happened to
go to Swiss prep school and St. Paul's School and Yale College Skull &
Bones. We'd see through that pose in about a minute and a half and mark you
for a hypocritical windbag and general liar. You needn't go to the trouble
of hanging a black velvet Elvis oil painting in any of your living rooms.
Weren't none of us recently fell off a turnip truck.
6.) Tell us something you're for. We already know what you're ag'inst.
7.) We ain't all that impressed with the UN, and we don't know why you keep
bowing in its direction, promising you will go there first thing if you are
elected President of this country. Is there anything the UN has ever done
right? Didn't they make a royal mess of that Iraq oil-for-food program,
millions skimmed off just happened to land in their personal bank accounts?
Seems to us they spend around 98 percent of their time passing resolutions
that don't add up to a hill of beans.
8.) If you're for lower gasoline prices in the morning, don't be proposing a
50 cents a gallon tax boost on gasoline in the afternoon. Saying one thing
in Shreveport and the opposite in Baton Rouge don't inspire us with
confidence with you as President. Maybe you should stay in the Senate where
you got 99 other guys to share the blame with.
9.) We got indoor privies, color TV, cell phones, and computers. Give us some
credit for brains and understanding. We know economic conditions are good
and getting better. Your telling us we're miserable, deluded fools just
won't fly. And it gives us the eerie feeling that you 're hoping for a
relapse into recession to help your electoral chances.
10.) You have beaten all your Democratic opponents in all the primaries and
caucuses held so far. Yet you seem out of touch with your party and with
America. Maybe you've been a pol too long, been campaigning too long and you
need a break before the Convention. We all think the best thing you can do
is haul out your Harley, put TeRAYza on the pillion and take off for the
Sturgis South Dakota Bike Rally. Meet the folks. A few of us from Daryl's
will be there. You don't have to get tattooed.
Sincerely,
Cooter |
