Mark Steyn: John Kerry is all tied up in nuances

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 03/02/04 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

[Tax-chick]

Egad! Kerry is so boring he even makes Mark Steyn dull! Global emergency!

[My2Cents]

I'm sure there are millions of Kerry supporters who'd like to take a tough Kerry-like stand this November. The best way to do that, in the spirit of his war votes, is to vote for Bush and then spend the next 10 years solemnly explaining that that was your bold courageous way of expressing your opposition to Bush.

One needs to appreciate the nuance of this particular suggestion.

[dighton]

If you've gone over to the forces of nuance, Kerry's your guy - or your nuancy boy.

[Carolinamom]

Steyn has no peer! Always a great read.

[Dogbert41]

Great read - I laughed out loud! I'll be sending this article around:)

[goldstategop]

John F. Kerry is a liberal who is afraid to assert he proudly is one, comes down on both sides of an issue and has all the charisma of a dead horse. I really marvel at people's being afraid of this guy. The Democrats have nominated someone who they think is "electable." ROFL. In truth, Kerry is as much of a kook as Howard Dean, except that Dean was the candidate who really excited the Hate-Bush base. The Democrats decided running an honest liberal was too risky, so they opted to go with safe and boring. Folks, a party without ideas and passion, without a candidate who can energize people and get them to go to the polls, a candidate who offers a program of change - which they don't have --- heck, that's not the stuff befitting a party on the way to a national victory this year.

[Imal]

Botoxicated Brahmin

LMAO. Second paragraph and I'm on the floor already.

Thank God there's no cure for MS.

[68skylark]

[baseballmom]

Kerry's your guy - or your nuancy boy

LOL There are always a few gems to be savored in a Steyn article.

[goldstategop]

Liberals are full of it by seeing the world as complicated. Yes, life has complicated sometimes, but the world lives by Occam's Razor. Its too bad the Democratic Party is intent on making matters much harder than they need to be. That's why most people cut to the chase and look for the most obvious solution, which most of the time, is the correct one. I mean in being hung up on nuances, people really have to hear Kerry to appreciate him. He's all over the place that he tends to get lost. At least President Bush know where's he's going. Give me "simplistic" solutions over complicated "nuances" any day. Liberals don't get it.

[Dog]

I wonder if Kerry made this comment...it speaks volumes about the man if he did.

I looked at my notes and found the following: "Sometimes real leadership means having the courage not to have any courage."

Steyn if you are lurking did Kerry really say this?

[Cboldt]

I'm sure there are millions of Kerry supporters who'd like to take a tough Kerry-like stand this November. The best way to do that, in the spirit of his war votes, is to vote for Bush and then spend the next 10 years solemnly explaining that that was your bold courageous way of expressing your opposition to Bush.

GREAT punch line, worth repeating. Again.

[goldstategop]

Steyn is being satirical. His real point is no one, not Kerry's supporters or his opponents, have any real idea of what the man stands for.

[goldstategop]

Kerry can explain to us while he's at it why he thinks UN involvement in Iraq was such a great idea but why we need to go it alone in Haiti.

[irv]

Best picture I've ssen in ages!

[Cboldt]

I can only handle a certain amount of gibberish. Kerry crosses that threshold quickly. If Kerry makes it through the Democrat national convention, he is going to be exposed for the shallow, phony, elitist twerp that he is, WELL before the election in November.

The question is, will the Democrat voters be willing to withhold their votes, then -- or do they hate Bush more?

[Dog]

Kerry did hold a "Fresh Air Forum" I just found it.

[Wolfstar]

His real point is no one, not Kerry's supporters or his opponents, have any real idea of what the man stands for.

I do. Kerry is a true man of the hard Left. As such, I have no trouble figuring out what he would do as president. The problem Kerry faces is that he can't let the general public know how truly far Left he is in his politics. Hence the "nuance" dance, and the constant repetition of his "war hero" credentials to whitewash his life-long anti-Americanism.