You just can't make this stuff up.

John Kerry thinks he should get the nomination if he wants it - claiming he hasn't decided that yet - because "Americans give people a second chance."

That's "people," Senator, not necessarily "politicians." Read the Associated Press report at Yahoo!.

It isn't often that American political parties give a losing nominee a second chance. In fact, the instances in the last 150 years or so can be counted on your fingers: Nixon lost in '60 and was renominated in '68, Adlai Stevenson grabbed a second straight nomination in 1956, Tom Dewey was renominated in 1948, William Jennings Bryan was nominated three times around the turn of the century, and Grover Cleveland won a third nomination after being defeated for reelection.

Rare enough, but the real point is they were all men of stature and accomplishment. Kerry is a little man who stood for nothing beyond working on behalf of America's enemies, and has no major legislative achievements to point to for his nearly 22 years in the United States Senate.

Not content to claim as his own the favor bestowed upon greater men, Kerry proceeds to spread a vicious lie:

"John McCain, their leading candidate -- didn't he get kicked around South Carolina by the same president because he wasn't patriotic enough as a prisoner of war? He's now their leading candidate for president," Kerry said of the Republican Party.

Actually, NO, Senator. McCain got his butt kicked around South Carolina for being a liar. He repeatedly accused Bush of negative campaigning, choosing to ascribe to the then-Governor the few nasty "push-poll" phone calls made by a fringe upstate preacher and his family, although Bush condemned them as soon as he heard of them, and the people involved never had any connection to the Bush campaign at all. The worst lie, though, was McCain's insistence that his own campaign was NOT smearing Bush.

The race was over in the debate when, after getting McCain to repeat that assertion, Bush produced a flyer which had been distributed in the parking lots of 15 Wal-Marts across the state only two days before, a nasty hit piece McCain could not deny.

There was never any disparagement of McCain's military service in that campaign that I ever heard, by Bush or anyone else, and I live in South Carolina.

Kerry is apparently the same lying loser we rejected before. If the Democrats want to run the lowlife again, all I can say is, "BRING - IT - ON!"