Kerry's royal roots will give him victory, says Burke's

[emad]

Kate Kelland
Tuesday August 17, 2004
The Guardian

Snip:

When it comes to American presidential elections, blue blood counts.
So say British researchers who predict that Democratic challenger John Kerry will oust President George Bush on November 2 because he boasts more royal connections than his Republican rival.

After months of research into Mr Kerry's ancestry, Burke's Peerage, experts on British aristocracy, reported yesterday that the Vietnam war veteran is related to all the royal houses of Europe and can claim kinship with Tsar Ivan "The Terrible", a previous Emperor of Byzantium and the Shahs of Persia.

Burke's director, Harold Brooks-Baker, said Mr Kerry had his mother, Rosemary Forbes, to thank for most of his royal connections. "Every maternal blood line of Kerry makes him more royal than any previous American president," Mr Brooks-Baker said.

"Because of the fact that every presidential candidate with the most royal genes and chromosomes has always won the November presidential election, the coming election - based on 42 previous presidents - will go to John Kerry."
More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1284632,00.html
Chimpy related to QE2? Maybe to one of her godawful corgis....

[calico1]

1. Oh come on.

Must we insult those corgis? Do they deserve being compared to the chimpster? :silly:

Aside from royal blood, the candidate with the fullest head of hair has always won the election. Kerry wins in that dept. too!

[BurtWorm]

2. Let's not play this up.

Isn't Bush a cousin of Elizabeth II, anyway?

[emad]

3. Poppy claims genetic link to Spanish Royals. Or maybe Franco's

descendents....

Junior related to General Pinochet....