And now, a very special pre-election message from the senior senator from Massachusetts.

With his party braced for defeats in the midterm elections, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee told the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce that a Republican machine — fueled by talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck — has undermined progress and misled the public into believing Democrats created the country’s current economic problems…

“It’s absurd. We’ve lost our minds,” said a clearly exasperated Kerry. “We’re in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don’t weigh in. It’s all short-order, lowest common denominator, cheap-seat politics.”

Note the trending leftist meme that Americans have gone crazy because they no longer wholeheartedly support leftist policies. You’ll find that that’s what the “Rally to Restore Sanity” is all about, as well.

To these people, “restoring sanity” means getting Americans to support the tax-and-spend agenda again. Americans must have gone crazy if they see higher taxes, higher unemployment, and record deficits, and don’t like what they see. So it’s time to “restore sanity” by getting the country back on the progressive track. It’s all smug and condescending.

And who better to represent the caucus of the smug and condescending than John Forbes Kerry? I mean, besides Barack Obama. But he’s busy being smug and condescending from the Oval Office.