About two weeks ago, the Drudge Report posted an open letter allegedly written from Hollywood’s famed Hussein sympathizer, Sean Penn.  The letter was written to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the immature creators of South Park and the new, offend-everyone movie Team America: World Police.  Penn’s letter reveals one of the core constituencies of the Democratic party: the uninformed voter.

In the letter, Penn attacks Parker and Stone not for making fun of him, admitting, “I never mind being of service, in satire and silliness.”  Interesting since it was Penn who validated the Hussein regime with his ill-conceived Baghdad fact-finding mission – a trip perhaps modeled after Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry’s own trip to Paris to negotiate his own personal settlement with the North Vietnamese during the early Seventies?

Penn’s problem with the two is found, he says, “when anybody who doesn’t have a child, doesn’t have a child at war, or isn’t or won’t be in harm’s way themselves, is encouraging that there’s ‘no shame in not voting’ ‘if you don’t know what you’re talking about.’”  Like many liberals, Penn seems to prefer an uninformed electorate that pays little attention to the candidates and their policy positions. How else does one explain the Hollywood star’s comment?  The only shame in voting comes if one makes an uninformed, uneducated decision.  If a person doesn’t know what they’re doing in that ballot box, and cares so little that they couldn’t be bothered to give an hour to the openly accessible information available, not only is there shame in voting but such people should be prohibited from voting entirely.

The only rationale that liberals could have in condoning uninformed voters going to the ballot box is that they routinely vote Democratic, and in this current election cycle, the amount of disinformation being spewed forth from the Kerry campaign is necessary because if the electorate truly informed themselves about the candidates, Kerry would be finished.  His ultra-liberal voting record demonstrates a twenty-year trend of blaming America first and voting against the tools and weapons that are used to try and keep our country safe.  Penn’s insistence that there is no shame in being an uninformed voter is necessary because that is what too many of Kerry’s blind supporters are: uninformed and apathetic to the entire process.  So blinded by their hatred of Bush, these people refuse to accept the fact that a Kerry administration, if it were to logically follow the two decade trend the senator has established for himself, would make our country less safe and secure.

But, Penn’s chiding of Parker and Stone does not end at encouraging uninformed voters to mark their ballots on Election Day.  He also insists that their encouragement of such irresponsible behavior – taking shame in not intelligently voting – will only “lead to the… death of innocent people throughout the world.”  Penn says, “The vote matters to them.  No one’s ignorance… is an excuse.”  This is the second liberal ideological cornerstone: that it is America’s fault that we have become targets of terrorists.  Again, this blind theory that Bush caused 9/11 to occur and willingly did nothing to stop it completely ignores the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the attacks on our embassies in sub-Saharan Africa, the destruction of our barracks in Saudi Arabia, and the attack on the Cole in Yemen – all events occurring on Clinton’s watch which garnered little, or worse no, response from that administration.  Terrorism is encouraged by weakness; it is weakened with strength and resolve.

An uninformed and uneducated electorate is precisely what the Democrats need in order to retake the White House in November.  Kerry’s campaign needs voters who care so little about their country and who care so little about the entire balloting process that they are willing to cast their ballots without learning about the candidate for whom they cast their vote.

An informed electorate would see the political opportunism of the Democratic presidential candidate and they would see his votes against the intelligence community and against the military and his big government, tax-and-spend record that he has represented proudly from Massachusetts for his entire legislative career.  Bush may be stubborn and arrogant, but he has a record he stands by, not one from which he runs away and spins in the desperate hope that no one actually informs themselves about and sees for what it is.

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