Someone Explain the Fear to Me

. . . because that's what I don't understand. John Kerry is frightening? Um, what? I'm not going to claim to love Kerry -- the truth is, he's much farther to the right than I would like -- but scary? I don't see it. Scarier than Bush? Well, I'm going to try to be diplomatic, because I actually would like to open a dialogue of some sort. But the idea that Kerry is scarier than Bush is frankly laughable to me. So, please, someone explain it.