So it has come to this - a choice of scandals (Kerry/Bush media coverage of scandals!)

Telegraph UK ^ | 2/15/2004 | Mark Steyn

[Burkeman1]

As far as I know there is no "Bush" scandal. He answered all those questions four years ago. Was Gennifer Flowers replayed for the 96' election against Clinton in the media? I don't think so. This stuff is just infuriating.

[Viking2002]

Steyn's lucidity and plainspeak can hit you like you stepped in front of a runaway Greyhound bus. Which is generally why liberals hide in darkened doorways when they see him coming - the impact might make them question their own existence.

[MEG33]

I think I'll keep this tagline I gleaned from his last statement!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Marvelous !

[SAMWolf]

If character is the issue, Bush can relax. And, if doing your bit for national security is the issue, then John Kerry's been Awol for two decades.

Gotta love it.

[MegaSilver]

Already posted: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1078346/posts

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Absolutely brilliant as usual. Bravo, Mr. Steyn !!!!!!

[Cicero]

True. But this one's better, because it's not excerpted.

[citizen]

I've been very critical of the President on some matters, important matters, but this whole issue of Bush's NG service is, as we all can see, is just a mass of a mean-spirited leftist press folderal intended to mortally wound President Bush.

It will not succeed.

[weegee]

There are two "scandals" in American politics at the moment: the first features George W Bush and whether he was a "deserter", as Michael Moore, Hollywood's celebrated Leftie lardbutt, puts it.

The other scandal would be to determine if by John Kerry's own testimony before Congress (1971) and then later interview with Tim Russert (2001) if John Kerry LIED before Congress and trumped up the charges that led to American GIs being called "baby killers" (aiding and abetting the enemy) or did he tell the truth the first time when he confessed to in his own words violating the Geneva convention and committing warcrimes.

He is a self-confessed unindicted war criminal or else a traitor to his country in a time of war. Either charge would make John Kerry unfit to serve.

This is the scandal that broke shortly before the National Enquirer disclosed a John Kerry sex rumor. The Democrats won't lose many votes over sex. They would over the other charges (especially among veterans).

[Rummyfan]

Ping!

[Rummyfan]

Actually, that is not strictly true. In the period when Bush was in the National Guard, Kerry was an angry Vietnam veteran protesting with Jane Fonda and accusing his comrades of being drug-addled rapists, torturers, mutilators and murderers committing war crimes on a scale surpassing the Japanese and the Nazis. But that's a mere detail. To the media, the contrast is simple: Kerry = war hero; Bush = something smaller, shiftier. Bill Clinton, of course, is smallest and shiftiest of the lot, but, back in '92, John Kerry stood shoulder to shoulder with his fellow Democrat and said, "We do not need to divide America over who served and how." Now, apparently, we do. So Kerry has his supporter Max Cleland, former Senator, fellow veteran and triple amputee, all over the talk-shows, explaining that the difference between giving Clinton a pass on draft-dodging and hammering relentlessly on Bush's National Guard record is that in 2004 "it's the national security, stupid. We want a President who can really be Commander-in-Chief". And the fact that Bush, as Commander-in-Chief, has liberated two countries, overthrown the Taliban and slung Saddam in jail counts for less than whether he bunked off for the weekend in 1972.

The Democrats are INSANE _ and I fear for the country if one is elected Presidetn.

[MegaSilver]

But this one's better, because it's not excerpted.

Good point. Didn't notice that. My apologies.

[Rummyfan]

The Democrats are INSANE - and I fear for the country if one is elected President.

That's better!

[eeriegeno]

Excellent article.... Thank you Mark Steyn.....

[Angelwood]

Bump for later.

[lawdude]

Kerry is a pimple on the ass of a toilet tick!

[BenLurkin]

As far as I know there is no "Bush" scandal.

You're right. There isn't.

The scandal is that someone who sided with the enemy during the Vietnam War could be given serious consideration for the democrat nomination to the highest elected office in the land.

[HoundsTooth_BP]

(The scandal is that someone who sided with the enemy during the Vietnam War could be given serious consideration for the democrat nomination to the highest elected office in the land.)

What about the scandal in siding with the enemy right now in Iraq?