The Value of Values  Looking for John Kerry's principles  Little
girls know makeup has something to do with being grown up. But
when they try it on, they tend to overdo it.  Likewise, John
Kerry knows "values" have something to do with getting elected
president. But he uses the word promiscuously, almost randomly,
betraying overeagerness and a lack of understanding.  "In the
end, it's about values," Kerry declared at a gathering of Jesse
Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition last month. On June 27, The New
York Times reports, "Mr. Kerry used the V-word no fewer than
eight times in a 36-minute speech to Hispanic leaders." At a
July 9 rally in Beaver, West Virginia, "Mr. Kerry attached the
word 'value' to virtually every line of his standard stump
speech."  Why all the talk of values? In Beaver, Kerry explained
that "a president of the United States makes value judgments
every single day." As opposed to the rest of us, who wouldn't
know a value if it poked us in the eye.  Sometimes Kerry himself
seems a little shaky