Back in February, when the French-looking John Kerry was asked what kind of cars he drove, he said, "We have some SUVs, Dodge minivans…<a list of other models>…and a Chevy, a Suburban.” Yesterday in a campaign stop in Louisiana, a reporter who had seen Kerry getting in and out of a Suburban at Kerry’s ski chalet in Idaho asked him, “Do you own a Suburban?” Kerry panicked and replied, “Th-the family owns a Suburban, b-but I don’t own one.”

Which raises a few questions. First, if a man can’t get his wife to give up gas guzzlers (they actually own a fleet of Suburbans), how can he get people he doesn’t know to give them up? Second, why is he afraid to tell the truth? And last, but certainly not least, who wears the pants in his family?

Just because Kerry is sacrificing “principles”, if you can call them that, doesn’t mean you have to as well. If you are Green, the only real candidate is Nader. Kerry doesn’t sound like he really cares about the environment if it affects his comfort.