JOHN KERRY'S QUIET COLLAPSE

New York Post ^ | 4/27/04 | JOHN PODHORETZ

[Izzy Dunne]

Yet another creepy picture of him sniffing his fingers!

This one is my favorite:

[CatoRenasci]

My bet is Hillary.

[metesky]

Howie Carr kept replaying the Charlie Gibson interview yesterday along with several other Kerry gaffes. It was absolutely hilarious!

Funniest part was when a Kool-Aid drinker called in and said that the Bush/Republican slime machine was forcing Kerry to lie!

Ya can't make this stuff up.

[Izzy Dunne]

The lies keep piling up and finally the press is talking about them.

As I said earlier, THAT is the big issue in this article - ABC News actually did some DIGGING to come up with the 1971 tape!
Sure, it's some 19-year old flunky who found it, but the orders were given by somebody...

[Proud_texan]

I think you're right, they're only committed for the first ballot.

But I think they're stuck with Kerry. While I don't put anything past them I can't recall a switch in modern history either before or after the convention with the exception of Eagleton. Certainly if they wanted to change it would have been McGovern or Dukakis, who had terrible polling numbers before the convention which is probably the reason they couldn't field a viable candidate; internal polling probably told them that the incumbent was going to win regardless of who they were running against. It's probably why we got Dole....

As for Hillary I don't buy it. I don't think she's a mental giant or anything, but again, I suspect the dims internal polling is showing some grim numbers. She's not going to burn her one shot against an incumbent and right now the pubies don't have anybody obvious for '08. That'll be her shot.

So I'm expecting some good entertainment, maybe even some Mondale moments between now and then.

Of course I could be wrong....(hehe)

[Proud_texan]

Just occurred to me thinking of a Mondale moment...if John F'ing Kerry cried would we be able to tell?

[alwaysconservative]

LOL! And don't we all remember one strange kid from school who used to sniff himself/herself? And didn't there used to be a Saturday Night Live sketch with a girl who sniffed herself obsessively? To me, seeing Kerry's fingers by his nose literally all the time is just one more thing about him that is truly bizarre.

[Izzy Dunne]

a Kool-Aid drinker called in and said that the Bush/Republican slime machine was forcing Kerry to lie!

Someone should point out to this lunatic that the Chinese / Korean / Russian / Israeli / British / Canadian / Bolivian leaders might put pressure on "president" Kerry, as well. Do you want a clown who caves so easily in there?

On the other hand, save your breath.

[Benrand]

This is a controversy that the Republicans are pushing, and this comes from a president and a Republican Party that can't even answer whether or not he showed up for duty in the National Guard. I'm not going to stand for it.

I'm not being defensive! You're the one who's being defensive! Why is always the other person who's being defensive? Have you ever asked yourself that? Why don't you ask yourself that?

[DustyMoment]

Joe Lie did have the gut principles to appeal to a lot of folks, I think. He sold 'em too cheap in 2000, though.

Agreed.

[dawn53]

Isn't this the lesson you try to teach your children when they are young?

The answer to a question is either "yes", "no" or "no excuse." (Podhoretz is even giving him the option of just staying silent, which is not a choice you give children).

But the main lesson is don't lie, and don't try to cover up your actions with lies, because you will be found out.

Guess Kerry's still acting like a child when it comes to owning up to his past actions. Excuses, excuses, excuses; blame, blame, blame.

The part that amazes me is that he told Gibson that he didn't see what he says he did see, LOL!

[230FMJ]

" I'm not going to stand for it."

Then SIT DOWN!

[laredo44]

I threw my ribbons across . . . After the ceremony was over, I had a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart given to me, one Purple Heart by a veteran in the V.A. in New York and the bronze star by an older veteran of World War II in Massachusetts. I threw them over because they asked me to."

I have two questions. First, I heard Kerry saying that the reason he threw his ribbons over and not his medals is that he simply didn't have his medals at the time. He hadn't had time to go home and get them. Why would he have one, his ribbons, but not the other, his medals? It doesn't make sense to me, not that it has to.

Also, suppose, for the sake of argument, you were a WWII veteran who had come to oppose the war in Vietnam. Suppose you wanted to make a statement by giving your medal back. You travel from Massachusetts to Washington D.C. where others are making similar statements. Would you throw your own medal over, or give it to someone else to throw for you?

[johnny7]

Guess Kerry's still acting like a child when it comes to owning up to his past actions. Excuses, excuses, excuses; blame, blame, blame.

It comes from that early schooling he had on the Brittainy coast in France. That haughty aloofness and the my-shit-don't-stink attitude is a carefully grown product that is native to the region.

[tkathy]

Kerry: a 9/10 candidate of the past in a 9/11 world.

[TomGuy]

Trying to change the topic to Bush's service simply smacks of cornered desperation.

Anyone with two brain cells (and 1 of those asleep) can see Kerry's modus operandi (MO).

Kerry: "I have a plan, but George Bush is bad...."
Kerry: "I will take this country in a different direction, but George Bush is bad...."
Kerry: "We need a change in Washington, but George Bush is bad..."

Kerry makes mention of 'plan', a 'change', a 'different direction.' The trouble is, that is as far a Kerry goes. He gives no details, no specifics, no hint as to how or why his plan-change-direction would be any better. Instead, he moves to criticizing and blaming George Bush and Company for whatever the topic.

Even with the medals fiasco yesterday, Kerry tried to switch the topic from him and his actions to blaming Bush, Cheney, Karen Hughes. So, the medals fiasco is Karen's fault. Huh?

Kerry did more than shoot himself in the foot. Kerry may have mortally wounded himself in the GMA interview. Kerry's rudeness toward the interviewer did himself no service. Now, Kerry has made an enemy of the ABC News department. How many ways can you spell s-t-u-p-i-d, John?

[I have also noticed recently that those the Kerry team send out to do the news programs and ramble off the Kerrytalkingpoints seem to be as rude and disrespectful as Kerry does in interviews. They interrupt the hosts and even tell the hosts to shut up and let them talk. They don't answer the questions, but redirect their spews to their memorized talking points. If the host counters and tries to get an answer, they become in-sensed, rude, disrespectful. The Kerry team seems to be making very few friends in high places and attacking persons in high positions. Kerry is dead meat as far as his campaign goes. The DNC will either use him as the throwaway and concede the 2004 election or can Kerry by the Convention.]

[GailA]

I like to know how many show up for his rallies, vs how many show up for Dubya's?

When Dubya was here in Memphis during the last election, it was PACKED in the Brothers company, and that is a huge plant.

[TomGuy]

Can Hillary get in? Who would officially step up?

Hillary would be the step in candidate, probably.

To run for President, contenders are required to submit a Federal form in October of the year before the election. (An 'intent to run' document.) All 10 or 11 of the original Dem candidates filed. Guess whom else had that 'intent' filed in her name?

If Kerry 'withdraws' for whatever reason, a replacement could only come from those who had filed that 'intent' form by last October. Of course, the Dems could try to insert another candidate, but the FEC would have to changed the rules, which I doubt they could do with the SC getting involved; Republicans would file suit against the change; Dems would file suit for the change; the SC would have to decide.

After the medals fiasco on GMA yesterday, Kerry inflicted himself with a mortal wound. His candidacy won't survive past the Convention unless the Dems figure 2004 as a throwaway and they present Kerry as the filler candidate.

[Snake65]

Will Hellary want it in 2004?

Nah. The press is just clearing the path for Hillary! 2008. Going to be fun to watch the nails pounded into the coffin, courtesy of ABC, CBS, NBC, NYT, WP for the next five months.

[theDentist]

Sometimes, it's better just to be silent, take the hit and move on. But Kerry seems constitutionally incapable of doing that.

There's an understatement. Kerry can't take the blame for anything. When this zeppelin he calls a campaign finally crashes, he'll most likely blame it on Thereeeeeza for keeping her purse strings so tight.