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| Kerry: strange, stuck-up... and stupid |
| 2004-08-24 |
| Steyn of course According to Francis Harris in Saturday's Telegraph, allegations that John Kerry "lied about his Vietnam record" are "unravelling". Oh, I wouldn't say that. Right now, it looks like the sanity of the Kerry campaign and its pals in the media that's beginning to unravel. Switch on the TV these days and you'll see John O'Neill, principal spokesman for the hundreds of Swift boat veterans who oppose their old comrade Kerry, talking calmly and patiently about the facts, citing chapter and verse and relevant footnotes, while some deranged interviewer is going berserk. The other day it was CNN host James Carville, former skinhead-in-chief to Bill Clinton, yelling and howling all over O'Neill's answers before brushing him aside with, "I've got no use for this man." Meanwhile, the grandees at the New York Times, having studiously ignored the story for two weeks, decided that, with the Kerry campaign all but paralysed by the issue, they'd have to sully their lily-white hands with the ghastly business and kill it themselves. Maureen Dowd, the paper's elderly schoolgirl columnist, dismissed the dissenting Swiftees as "creepy-crawly", "stomach-turning", "sleazoids". |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #13 "Michael Moore ... Kerry’s a Republican plant secretly controlled by Karl Rove and the House of Saud." SHHHH!!! They'll catch on to us! |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-08-24 11:18:28 PM |
| #12 Supposedly a self-inflicted (yes, Chris Matthews!) wound qualifies From what I understand, it only applies if you're actually under enemy fire. In other words, if you're being shot at and drop your grenade, that counts. If nothing else is happening and you pick up a live grenade or throw one too close, that doesn't. Kerry apparently threw grenades like he threw that baseball. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-08-24 12:16:46 PM |
| #11 Well, yesterday Major Garrett on Fox had a report that Kerry's camp is backing off his earning the 1st PH under fire, since his own journals later say he had yet to take enemy fire. Supposedly a self-inflicted (yes, Chris Matthews!) wound qualifies, but it makes putting himself in for the PH and his subsequent checking out after 3 (since the 3rd was also acknowledged as self-inflicted when a grenade he put in a rice bin blew up and put shrapnel and rice in his ass) is a world-class cheesy maneuver. USS Kerry is taking on water and the damage control's too little, too late |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-24 12:08:05 PM |
| #10 "it’s hard to see how Kerry could more comprehensively diminish his military support." I will repeat myself again: John Kerry has very little (if any) military support. His answers to these charges and attacks on the swiftees will cost him a lot of Veteran support. My Dad is DIEHARD Dem (and Veteran) and he isn't voting for Kerry. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-08-24 11:51:55 AM |
| #9 Short of reversing over the last 128-year-old Spanish-American War veteran in the retirement home parking lot, it’s hard to see how Kerry could more comprehensively diminish his military support rofl!! |
| Posted by: B 2004-08-24 11:20:55 AM |
| #8 Hey, that's some great writing and points there Mark... but let's get back to the *REAL* issue. "123 gay porn movies"??? Not that I watch gay porn, ahem, but ah, which ones? |
| Posted by: Anonymous4021 2004-08-24 11:07:49 AM |
| #7 that wouldn't stop an attack chihuahua like Sid...kinda like Carville without testes Considering that Carville's all testes, that means Sid's nothing at all. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-08-24 10:02:19 AM |
| #6 Frank G -- Thanks for that timeline link. I love looking over charted events. I just hope more of this (Basic Kerry Boobery, Inconsistancies, and Contradictions) gets out before Nov. Ta-raaaaay-za is quite the supportive wife, too, eh? |
| Posted by: nada 2004-08-24 9:30:01 AM |
| #5 typical for Sid - he also went after GHWBush's WW2 heroics in 92, hinting that Bush bailed out of that crippled Avenger, leaving his 2 crew to die while he parachuted to "safety" in the ocean. The two weren't responding to radio (pilot can't physically see them in an Avenger), so were likely dead, but that wouldn't stop an attack chihuahua like Sid...kinda like Carville without testes |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-24 9:23:38 AM |
| #4 Steyn is, of course, joking about gay porn. As for Dole in 1996, Sidney Blumenthal went after him (I think I read about it in National Review) for his war wounds. |
| Posted by: Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-08-24 9:18:51 AM |
| #3 "hagiographer" HA! |
| Posted by: oldowan 2004-08-24 8:55:39 AM |
| #2 the gay porn was a joke. Bob Dole took a piece of Kerry this weekend after Kerry's aides mocked him (a really stupid thing to do to a real war hero with a streak of stilleto-sharp hunor that can easily be vicious). This has been a month-from-hell for Kerry - see the timeline here |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-24 8:47:31 AM |
| #1 I don't know Steyn that well, is he joking about the gay porn? Not that there's anything wrong with that... But he's wrong about Dole not making a big fuss about his war injuries. He didn't prior to the 1996 campaign, and he didn't afterwards, but the campaign gollums made a fuss in the late summer and fall of 1996. I thought it was rather undignified and disrespectful of their candidate at the time. Still voted for Dole, but I didn't like the biography song-and-dance. It diminished him, made him look like a victim rather than the ferocious politician he was. All part of the sensitive-is-in, women-are-scared-by-mean-nasty-Gingrich bullswallop of the time. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2004-08-24 8:29:38 AM |