Election Season Is Bad Time For Slip Of The Quip (Mark Steyn On Meaning Of Kerry's Quip Alert)

Chicago Sun Times ^ | 11/05/2006 | Mark Steyn

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As Mark Steyn writes this morning, election time is always bad to announce an ill-considered quip. Especially the Nuancy Boy pronouncemrent from John Kerry about the U.S military's intelligence or lack of it. His quip is more of a statement on the Left's lack of comprehension about the vital role soldiers play in preserving America's freedoms both abroad and at home.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[FreedomPoster]

"Senator Nuancy Boy" - LOL!

You've got to love Steyn.

[Jemian]

it was as desultory and uncommitted as his sex life and characterized by the same inability to reach (in Ken Starr's word) "completion."

LOL!

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"DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I AM JOHN KERRY. NOW MOVE, BUSTER!"

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Coldwater Creek]

What blows my mind is that nearly half of the country voted for this fool!

[FreedomPoster]

Hey, he's the best the Dems have to offer, or was in 2004. Think about that.

[DCPatriot]

Viva la Steyn!

[TexasNative2000]

"Sometimes truly courageous leadership means having the courage not to show any leadership."

So he is for leadership by being against leadership?

This guy is nuts.

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He's still the visible face of their party that has contempt both for traditional values and the U.S military. Kerry clumsily said what many of them really think but dare not say openly in public out of fear of the ensuing political consequences that would follow.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

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LOL! He was for insulting the military before he was against it.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Centaur]

WOW!! What more can I say? WOW

[TexasNative2000]

Here's the amazing reality of this entire episode:

Four months ago, Joe Leiberman gets booted out of the Democratic primary for being too supportive of the war. Now, along comes John Kerry who is essentially an albatross to the Democrats because he is too critical of the troops.

So, two of the last four top-of-the-ticket Democrats (Lieberman in 2000, Kerry in 2004) are now outcasts of their party for being on opposite sides of the same issue. Explain that twisted logic.

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The Democrats' problem is they hate the war and they want to sound tough on national security but they can't figure out how to reconcile the incoherence in being both pacifists and hawks at the same time.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Bernard]

But Kerry is the flesh-and-blood embodiment of the Democratic straddle

Excellent point. John Kerry does represent the Democrats - not just the straddle, but the entire party. Replace the Demo Donkey with John Kerry.

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The other thing about them is they know they are against America before they are for it.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[livius]

Kerry's gaffe isn't about one maladroit Marie Antoinette of the Senate but a glimpse into the mind-set of too many Americans

Sadly true. Every time I see some liberal driving around my town with her usual "hate Bush" bumper stickers combined with her "I support the troops" sticker, I know exactly what she thinks about the troops, and I know exactly how far her tiny mind is from reality.

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The Swiftboated moron received nearly half the country's votes in 2004. It put him in a strong position to run again for President in 2008. What may have killed it is his being Swiftboated by angry Iraq War Vets. We can all hope the incident sticks to him like a Tar Baby.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[PetroniusMaximus]

"Kerry's gaffe isn't about one maladroit Marie Antoinette of the Senate..."

That, I love!

I can almost hear Kerry's dismissive, "Let them eat cake!"

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And so they signed up with the weirdly incoherent narrative of John Kerry -- a celebrated anti-war activist suddenly "reporting for duty" as a war hero and claiming that, even though the war was a mistake and his comrades were murderers and rapists, his four months in the Mekong rank as the most epic chapter in the annals of the Republic.

It's worth contrasting the fawning media admiration for Kerry's truncated tour of duty with their total lack of interest in Bob Dole's years of service two presidential campaigns earlier.

It's worse than that: in 1992, when Papa Bush ran against Clinton, no less than Garry Trudeau questioned the veracity of the flying record of H.W., suggesting that rather than being a hero pilot who survived an attack that killed two crewmen, he was a substandard pilot.

I meant to go find and post those Doonesbury strips during the SwiftVet frenzy, but never did. I should, but can't promise I will.

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"I wouldn't have apologized until my untenable situation forced me to reluctantly apologize. Even then I made it clear I said what I meant and for those too stupid to get it, I meant what I said."

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus