[goldstategop]

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!

[Coldwater Creek]

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

[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.

[Centaur]

WOW!! What more can I say? WOW

[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.

[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.

[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!"

[L.N. Smithee]

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.

[CheyennePress]

"In this tedious shell game, no matter how frantically the left shuffles the cups, you never find the one shriveled pea of The Military Intervention We're Willing To Support When it Matters."

This article is classic! Love the lines throughout! Thanks for posting.

[sauropod]

review

[Riley]

Instead, Kerry just stood there nose to nose, staring at us with an inscrutable semi-glare on his face. After an eternity, an aide stepped out from behind him and said, "The senator needs you to move."

Yessir, Jon Carry- a real workaday, shirt-sleeve Man of the People.

Creepy.

[hershey]

Every word a gem, on target, amazing. The description of his face to face meeting with Kerry, the 'two old coots in plaid'....how New Hampshireish! Kerry's sneer, his aide's demand that Steyn move...priceless. Kerry tried to mend fences with NH dem party insiders in early January, '06. It was worth watching twice on C-Span...he was so inept. Lame speech, one hand clappers, at the end he fawned, named a few locals and then rushed to press the flesh. (All this caught on tape.) The room emptied as if someone had just yelled, FIRE, and Kerry was left with his botoxed face hanging out. (Laughed so hard I cried.)

[sphinx]

You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

I can be slow on the uptake. It just occurs to me that John Kerry, the C-D student, is describing how he himself got to Vietnam. He was a classic draft-induced volunteer -- not that there's anything wrong with that, but he signed up only after failing to finagle another deferment.

[Right_in_Virginia]

"A vain thin-skinned condescending blueblood with no sense of his own ridiculousness, Senator Nuancy Boy..."

Priceless. Simply priceless.

[johnny7]

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

Amen...

[SkyPilot]

Bill Clinton bombed more countries in a little more than six months than the Zionist neocon warmonger Bush has in six years but, unless you happened to be in that Sudanese aspirin factory, it was as desultory and uncommitted as his sex life and characterized by the same inability to reach (in Ken Starr's word) "completion."

[metesky]

Bump for excellent Steyn.

[Ninian Dryhope]

Classic Steyn. Great article from beginning to end because it lays out the truth about Kerry, Democrats, and the Left.