Terry McAuliffe: The Manchurian Chairman? Hugh Hewitt says Dem Party chief 'world-class fool'

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, February 4, 2004 | Hugh Hewitt

[JohnHuang2]

Terry McAuliffe: The Manchurian Chairman?

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Posted: February 4, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Terry McAuliffe, whom we ought to call the Manchurian Chairman, hit a new low Sunday, saying on ABC's "This Week": "George Bush never served in our military in our country. He didn't show up when he should have showed up. And there's John Kerry on the stage with a chest full of medals that he earned by saving the lives of American soldiers. So, as John Kerry says, 'Bring it on!'"

McAuliffe is to politics what MTV is to Superbowl halftime shows: Low, tacky, and a failure. He is also increasingly unstable to the point that Democratic Party pros have to worry about what he'll say next. Yesterday's pratfall was a perfect example of an attention-starved ego diverting the press from the themes that the candidates are trying to develop onto a stupid comment and the clean-up that follows.

McAuliffe has long been a candidate message-killer – so much so that the anti-Clinton wing of the Dems suspects he's programmed to take down anyone who gets in the way of Hillary's potential run in '08. Crackpot allegations from the Begala school of broadcasting sure don't help the Kerry campaign, so you have to wonder about the Manchurian Chairman theory, though I think the evidence supports the much more simple proposition that McAuliffe is a world-class fool with too much money and powerful friends who didn't think about the Peter Principle until it was too late.

The Dems are stuck with McAuliffe through the convention, for which the Republican Party should be thankful. Having a buffoon in charge of the opposition is the sort of gift that keeps giving, as anyone who can recall McAuliffe's '02 prediction about the Florida governor's race or his '03 prediction about the California recall will attest.

McAuliffe's decision to deny that service in the national guard is service in the military – even as thousands of national guard have served in Iraq – is a blunder larger than any of his others, and trafficking in discredited urban myths gives you a glimpse of McAuliffe's desperation to turn the conversation to anything except Kerry's way-left voting record, or his role in the Dean meltdown, or the failure of Wes Clark to capture any significant support outside the loon caucus.

For the record: President Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard from May of 1968 to October of 1973. The long-ago discredited allegations that the president was AWOL (Absent WithOut Leave) are a feature of the Michael Moore crowd who point to a period of months when Bush was working on a campaign in Alabama, from May to November 1972, and did not fly. As the New York Times has reported in the past: "A National Guard official and Mr. Bush's spokesmen have said that he made up the missed dates, as Guard regulations allow."

Republican National Committee Chair Ed Gillespie labeled McAuliffe's lies "slanderous," "despicable," and "reprehensible" – which they are – but not even the dimwits in the national press corps are going to chase that rabbit, so only McAuliffe and the party he leads look bad as a result.

I hope the RNC provides a 24x7 cable show for McAuliffe and, in the interim, invites all those outraged with yet another clownish moment from the Alfred E. Neuman of American politics to skip the getting mad and go straight to the getting even via a donation at GeorgeWBush.com.

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[meenie]

Neither man has the credentials to call himself a heroe. One felt that being involved in an election was more important than combat in Vietnam and the other forfeited his status when he returned and abandoned his support for the troops and POW's left behind.

[JohnHuang2]

That picture is an insult!

To toilet paper! ;-)

G'morning to ya, good buddy

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the links and G'morning to ya

[JohnHuang2]

Indeed, Bush is blessed by the enemies he keeps ;-)

[backhoe]

Howdy, John- it's quite a den of vipers, isn't it?

[JohnHuang2]

It sure is...:-)

[TomB]

Neither man has the credentials to call himself a heroe.

I don't recall Bush or his supporters calling him a "hero". Could you perhaps post a link to that story?

One felt that being involved in an election was more important than combat in Vietnam

When did this happen? When was Bush scheduled to deploy? Did the military allow you to forego deployment to Vietnam to campaign?

[MeekOneGOP]

haha ! Mornin' ! ...

[astounded]

Hey JH2, how goes it? I love this McAuliffe stuff. I've thought, since 1992, the rise of the Clintons and their ilk would be the downfall of the democrats, but that it also would drag America down. Sad prophecy, too true. We all need to work very hard to educate the "mainstream" of America, who only hear the story from CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and the liberal newrags, about the truth. Only that will save us.

[Jim Noble]

He's not a fool.

He's the Clintons' hand-picked destroyer of everything non-Hillary, and he's executing his assigned functions flawlessly.

[JohnHuang2]

G'morning backatya, my friend. Couldn't agree with you more, btw.

[nicmarlo]

McAuliffe is to politics what MTV is to Superbowl halftime shows: Low, tacky, and a failure.

I'll bump to that! : )

[JohnHuang2]

G'morning, my friend :-)

[nicmarlo]

Morning to you, John....hope you have a great day and rest of the week, too!

[JudgemAll]

Kerry is a socialite who served the Soviet Union, enough said. But I guess that was not enough for the American people to vote Clinton out.

[MrConfettiMan]

Terry McAuliffe, whom we ought to call the Manchurian Chairman, hit a new low Sunday, saying on ABC's "This Week": "George Bush never served in our military in our country. He didn't show up when he should have showed up. And there's John Kerry on the stage with a chest full of medals that he earned by saving the lives of American soldiers. So, as John Kerry says, 'Bring it on!'"

While I didn't watch the show, I'm willing to bet Georgie Boy let the comment slide by without a challenge. Right? /rhetorical :)

[ChadGore]

[ought-six]

I'd like to see McAwful go on down to Bardstown, KY, walk into the town square, and yell at the top of his voice that National Guardsmen are not military, and that they don't see action. Yep, I want McAwful to tell that to the good folks of Bardstown, many of whose sons served in the same National Guard unit that was all but wiped out in Vietnam.

[mass55th]

"Terry is beneath contempt."

You're being too gracious. I hope his pee pee falls off.

[wayoverontheright]

Hugh, you just allowed the opposition to completely redact FOUR YEARS AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF from W's resume. He has been a great CIC, and the "dumb" McAuliffe has manged to get the conversation to completely ignore it. Instead of comparing W"s NG service with Kerry's VietNam performance of 35 years ago, we should be touting that our guy has already proved his fitness to be Commander in Chief, which is the only reason military experience comes into the conversation.