Why John Kerry Always Cites His Vietnam Service

Kerry's Record

[Williams]

It's easy to say that John Kerry cites his time in combat in Vietnam to offset his liberal voting record.

But on a more fundamental level, I think it exposes a lot more about Kerry. Kerry was in combat in Vietnam for no more than four months. I have read articles saying the actual combat was only two months. Kerry is over 60 years old now.

His behavior after returning from the war was over the top inappropriate. He eventually married and divorced a wealthy woman. After that he dated actresses in what Theresa Heinz calls his "gypsy period." Then he married into the Heinz fortune. His Senate record was quite unproductive, to the extent he has to make up excuses about "how the Senate works."

The salient point about John Kerry is that outside that maybe two months in Vietnam, he really hasn't done much with his life. In a pathetic way, he's holding up two months to deflect attention from a life that has amounted to very little.

Think about it, when someone keeps repeating the same thing about themself over and over, there is usually a reason they feel that need.

GWB did his guard duty, but he also ran companies. Some weren't so succesful but by the time he was a major league baseball owner, he had hit some home runs. It was all good experience. Some baseball owners are famous in their own right. But Bush became a two term Texas governor with a great record. Just getting reelected there was an accomplishment.

What was Kerry before the Senate? Dukakis' Lt. Governor? Kerry's resume and life are paper thin. Except for those two months. He's a good talker, but I have met guys in bars whose lives were a wreck, but they still talk a good game.

Not to equate John Kerry with Jimmy Stewart's character, but Kerry's life is in many ways like the poignant twist in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." Living a whole life on the legend of one brief period.

George Bush had to live his life in the shadow of a father president, and in the shadow of the brother they all thought would be more succesful. He built more notable accomplishments anyway. Kerry really had nothing great to live up to. And he hasn't.

[TexasCajun]

I wish the Freeper that posted all the pictures of the military systems that are in use now that Kerry voted against would post them again.

That was a great post that the RNC could use to as advertising material. The pictures really made the point.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Heck, does the RNC even have a chairman anymore?

I'm sure it's being researched now.

If there is something fishy like writing his own recommendation for the medals, I'm sure it will be leaked to Hitchens or Hackworth or Novak.

[hresources]

If you were to believe what Kerry said when he was testifying to the Senate as a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, all the names on the Vietnam Memorial are just Murderers. There are also over 5000 names of Reservists and National Guard members on that memorial who I guess are murderers also. I presume that makes Kerry a murderer. Lets make sure people remember what he said and when he said it. Too bad General Vo Nguyen Giap isn't alive today to tell how the Kerry's and other anti Vietnam war groups aided and abetted the cause of the North Vietnamese.

[Tamzee]

His only evidence of testosterone and he even tried to avoid THAT...



..."I didn't really want to get involved in the war," Kerry said in a little-noticed contribution to a book of Vietnam reminiscences published in 1986. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing."

...But two weeks after he arrived in Vietnam, the swift boat mission changed -- and Kerry went from having one of the safest assignments in the escalating conflict to one of the most dangerous.


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[anoldafvet]

During the year I was in Vietnam I saw a number of attrocities committed, all of them by the V.C. I really wonder about this "Hero", most heros I know don't talk about it or even acknowledge that what they did was heroic. Most of them say "I was just doing my job".

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - VNVAJK

[kellynla]

"Most of them say I was just doing my job"...exacto mundo...That is all I was doing...I don't even display my medals. They're packed away. It's just too bad that the folks in Massachusetts didn't expose this traitor for what he was thirty years ago!!!

[NorCoGOP]

Kerry's resume and life are paper thin. Except for those two months. He's a good talker, but I have met guys in bars whose lives were a wreck, but they still talk a good game.

Reminds me all too much of those former high-school all-star atheletes who never amount to anything.

Never went on to college, or the pros.

Never got out of the town they grew up in, usually working at "the mill" or "the plant" or wherever the majority of people in said town are working, but never gets into supervisory or management positions.

Always trying to cadge a free beer off people when reminiscing "the good old days".

Their entire life now is completely defined by something they did long ago, and have never come close to duplicating that success in any other facet of their lives since....

[MeekOneGOP]

bumpity ! bumpity ! bumpity !

[WOSG]

For more on this phenomenom, put Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days" on the tunebox.

[Verginius Rufus]

...I'm sure it will be leaked to Hitchens or Hackworth or Novak.

What good would it do to leak it to Hackworth or Novak? Neither of them supports Bush.

[MD_Willington_1976]

gypsy period

gypo's and carnies PING

[DUMBGRUNT]

"Too bad General Vo Nguyen Giap isn't alive today"

If you hurry you may be able to ask the general!
At about 93 (?) I think he is still ticking.

[yankeedame]

A snap shot of the talented Mr. Kerry in his "gypsy period".

[Viking2002]

You know, if we hadn't gotten hit on 9/11, Horseface wouldn't even bring up Vietnam, except to say that he 'opposed war then, and opposes war now'. Just another leftist dirtbag that wants it both ways, and will lie though his teeth to do it.

[Liz]

Thank God Bush has us on his side.

[lainde]

Very astute analysis!