Posted on 09/24/2004 8:16:02 PM PDT by Delta Dave
The conventional wisdom is that Senator Kerry has demonstratedly proven himself to be a world class “flip-flopper”. Some say if you look up the definition of flip-flop in Webster’s Dictionary, you find a picture of Senator Kerry as the definition.
Conventional wisdom is wrong!
Conventional wisdom is wrong! Senator Kerry is one of the most consistently “on-message” political animals I have every come across. In fact, I submit, Senator Kerry has not wavered in his basic principles since his years at Yale where, …”Upon his graduation in 1966, Kerry was given the honor of delivering the class oration. Many at Yale noticed that this young man, on his way to becoming a commissioned officer in Vietnam, was critical of the war -- and the use of American military might against communist regimes.”(emphasis added).
I believe that Senator Kerry’s core principle is the destruction of the United States democratic form of government and capitalist economy and its replacement with a communist dictatorship. On this principle he has not wavered. It is his strategic vision. It explains why he has acted consistently to seek America’s defeat; make it weak; undermine its institutions; turn its security over to the United Nations. It explains why he supported the North Vietnamese, the Chinese, Castro, and the Sandinstas.
The urban myth is that Senator Kerry was merely an anti-war protestor in his post-service days after Vietnam. But being anti war is fundamentally different than working for defeat of the United States. If Senator Kerry was merely “anti-war”, he could have done any number of things within bounds of “loyal opposition” to legally change the policies of the United States government.
However, Senator Kerry did more than merely protest US foreign policy in Vietnam. He actively conspired to undermine the morale and will of soldiers engaged in active combat with communist opponents; he criminalized the character and behavior of our men engaged in fighting for democracy; he conspired to give aid and comfort to enemy combatants against the United States; he engaged in secret negotiation with senior representatives of the Democratic People; he was a leader in an organization that considered discussion about the assassination of members of Congress appropriate. These are not the actions of an individual who has a mere disagreement over policy. These are actions of an individual who seeks the overthrow of the government.
So what explains Senator Kerry’s apparent flip-flops? His “like a rat in a maze” flip-flops are tactical level attempts to achieve his strategic goal. At the tactical level, Senator Kerry tries any avenue that give the remotes chance of furthering his vision of destroying a democratic, capitalistic United States. Being forced to back track, contradict himself, make radical changes of course are all part of seeking the method, the means, the route to achieve his strategic goals. It doesn’t make any different how many times he fails, how foolish he looks, or who many people write him off as inept at the tactical level. He only has to succeed one time.
It also explains why Senator Kerry has not articulated a “vision” for the future of the United States. His vision does not include a United States as we currently know it.
Just kidding. Interesting post. Think about it like this, and you'll understand how Kerry in particular and liberals in general think about it.
'America' means something different to them than it does to us. Our visions of what this country should be have grown apart. We use the same words, but it doesn't define the same territory. We both view each other as having abberant views of what this country should be, and hence see the other side as 'unpatriotic' or 'unAmerican'.
Liberals literally believe that conservatives want to destroy America, and vice versa. This, folks, is not a healthy situation, and the divide is only getting wider.
I believe that Senator Kerry’s core principle is the destruction of the United States democratic form of government and capitalist economy and its replacement with a communist dictatorship.And this is different from other Democrats how? ;')
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
I disagree.
I think Kerry believes he can use any nuance, any pertubation of meanings to support the argument that he is using at any given moment.
His only short coming in that department is neglecting the ugly fact that people are actually interested in the nuance he envokes today versus the equal an opposite nuance he used last [night/week/month/year/decade/war/campaing/debate/speech] {pick one}
Case in point: If he were simply a communist, then he would be representing himself as such. Instead, he spent the majority of the DNC Convention proclaiming that he is a hero from Viet Nam, and therefore supremely qualified for commander-in-chief.
No. He is an astable multi-vibrational flip-flop.
Ok, I'll concede. If you allow n-dimensional space, then there exists a universe in which Kerry is right. It's just not this one.
Communism is dead. We can all celebrate and put our guard down. In fact, we should perform inter-military training exercises with them and invite them into alliances with us. /RAGINGSARCASM
Not so, it has been renamed to Progressive.
Missed the end tag!
LOL
(and it was in caps and RAGING!)
Choose ye this day, life or death, cursing or blessing...I find it's pretty to see where people are at by their choices, and therefore all I need to know to come to an informed decision...
Americans tend to believe there is no such thing as a "communist" just like many do not believe there is such a thing as "evil".
To discount communism as Senator Kerry's core believe, you have to discard all the incidents where he has supported victory of communist regimes over the United States.
I don't think this is a position he arrived at just on graduation from Yale. I think it is a long term product of his European boarding school years.
He isn't a misguided socialist. He has been too consistent in his historical strategic direction to be "misguided". Misguided assumes you can suddenly see the error of your ways and get straightened out. Senator Kerry consistently turns down every opportunity to repent of his errors and turn to embrace the ideals of American capitalism, democracy and the Constitution.
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