DON'T THEY KNOW THERE'S AN ELECTION ON?

John F. Kerry is running around the country saying lots of things, raising lots of money, cussing out his Secret Service detail and falling on ski slopes. He's saying things about some guy who lives in a big white house in Washington. That guy, whose name is George W. Bush, apparently runs something big called the "government," and this Kerry fellow thinks Bush is doing it all wrong so he's out there trying to get enough people to put him in that white house instead of Bush. Apparently whoever lives in that house gets to run the "government."

This whole thing--Mr. Kerry saying things about Mr. Bush, and Mr. Bush saying things about Mr. Kerry, both raising gobs of money so they can make commercials and print stuff and generate all sorts of media noise--is called an "election." It's a feature of "democracy," a system whereby government officials stand before the voters every few years and either ask to keep the job they have or ask to be given the job some other guy has. Currently Bush has the job that Kerry wants. The coming "election" will determine who gets the house and the job for the next few years.

I suspect you probably already knew all this. Someone needs to explain it to Democrats.com.

You see, they're out pushing a whole bunch of angry books. They want people to read them, and then demand that Congress--that's another part of the "government"--impeach President Bush.

They're apparently unaware that they have the means to remove Mr. Bush from that house in Washington just by getting enough people to agree with them that he shouldn't keep it. They're apparently under the mistaken impression that the only way to get Bush out of that house, which goes with the job of running the "government," is to impeach him. Put him on trial, convict him and run him out of town. Possibly jail him. The tone of the email I received from them this morning suggested they're quite angry with Mr. Bush, and jail may be too good for him.

You'd think people who call themselves "Democrats" would understand "democracy" and this feature known as "elections." But apparently they don't. They don't know there's an election on. Or they've given up any hope of actually winning it fairly.