As for his party's nominee, Sen. John Kerry, McKelvey said, "Like the rest of you, I have no idea where he stands on anything."

He said he would campaign for the president in the crucial swing state. "I'm embarrassed that Jerry Springer is the Democrat of the Year in Ohio. Let me state that very clearly for the media; he's probably their hero."

By the way, here's yet another example of how Democrat intolerance of the First Amendment is starting to rival Democrat intolerance of the Second Amendment. After Kelly spoke out for the president, enraged anti-choice leftists launched an effort to try to recall him, not for any Gray Davis type of incompetence and corruption but merely for thought crimes.

Kelly noted to the St. Paul Pioneer Press: "Political discourse in this country has come to an all-time low, so that when you disagree with someone, you attack them. The last time I checked, the mayor has the same right to every other citizen to voice his opinion and choose to vote for whomever he wishes for president."

But what does anyone expect of the party that keeps trying to censor Swift Boat Veterans for Truth even as Kerry's multimillion-dollar hate groups spread their venom?

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