It was a little difficult to tell, but I believe his opening comments were designed to show why he should be allowed to run as a Republican, even though the state party is doing everything in its power to stop him. He talked about ”Country Club” Republicans (like Bush) and then said that there is no freedom of speech in this country. After all, only 2 newspapers would run his ads.

Iraq:
Hart declared that it is ridiculous to establish democracy in Iraq when we are allowing Mexicans to run wild in our streets. He then went into a fairly extensive anti-Bush screed and white supremacist rant. He promised that, when elected, he will ask the FBI to investigate the invasion California by the flood of illegal Mexicans to determine if it is an act of war. Upon completion of that investigation he will ask the country to go to war (he did not allow for the possibility that the FBI would not consider it an act of war).

NAFTA:

When elected, Hart promised that he would repeal NAFTA to protect our jobs, our economy and our country. He said that it is ridiculous to think that trade is “free” — the government is meddling in prices of cars by messing with GM. Hart pledged to remove the NAFTA knife from the back of hard working Americans by employing punitive tariffs equal on products equal to what NAFTA is reducing the prices of the products.

Immigration:
Hart claimed that we are being lied to when we are told that only reasons to oppose immigration are racist. He then when on to talk about the low IQ of Mexicans and blacks as proven in The Bell Curve and the Wealth of Nations. This led into a call for instituting a program of eugenics that is required if we are to save civilization.

Affirmative Action:
Hart asserted that Affirmative Action is based on a false premise: that they can perform the same jobs as whites. Blacks have smaller brains and are not capable, which is why there are not that many black doctors or dentists. He then went on to claim that Mexicans and others of the less favored races will bring poverty and crime with them. Just look at Detroit and Los Angeles.

Constitutional Rights:
Hart held himself up as an example that the Constitution is a facade (what with the Republicans trying to kill his candidacy and the newspapers refusing his ads). “George Bush is no more the real president than the Pillsbury Doughboy.” “Bush is nothing but a front for Enron and Halliburton.”
Closing comments:
Hart closed by warning the audience not to buy the Fundamentalist line against abortion: God did not pick a particular sperm and a certain egg so that a retarded child is born, forcing the parents to have to deal with a lifetime of raising a Down’s Syndrome baby, any more than God is responsible for the weather. Eugenics is necessary to save our race. ”We are God.” He then asserted that the unemployed are those with low IQs.

Editor’s Comments:
Hart is an animated and humorous speaker. On the other hand, the level and intensity of fanaticism that comes out of his mouth is absolutely stunning. If he toned it down a little lot, he might get someone to listen to him. On the other hand, it was hard to stop smiling while listening to him. I mean, it was more entertaining than most movies and had twice as much fiction as a CSI episode.

Bottom line: James Hart’s extremist 16^th century views will hopefully cause him to quickly fade from the political landscape and become no more than a less-than-amusing anecdote in history.

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