The Democrats are FOR this man...
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Posted on 08/02/2004 6:02:01 AM PDT by Elkiejg
Edited on 08/02/2004 9:48:45 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
"The embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world," declared Ted Kennedy, in a moment of Revolutionary War nostalgia. Or he would have done, if he had managed to stick to his text. But, in a strikingly erratic performance even by his standards, what actually emerged from the senator's lips was: they "fired the shirt round the world."
That sums up better than anything what the Democratic Party was trying to do last week for its presidential candidate: fire the stuffed shirt round the world, put a rocket up a guy who seems weighed down by his own self-importance and project him into the stratosphere. All the star speakers through the week were the equivalents of those bits of the rocket that boost you into space and then fall away, leaving just the little capsule up there. And, who knows, if they boosted him up high enough, maybe nobody would notice just how little there is to John Kerry's little capsule.
Well, that was the theory. "I'm John Kerry," began the candidate last Thursday night, "and I'm ... reporting for duty."
Democratic Party partisans appreciate this stuff -- a stageful of Swifties, the war-wounded Max Cleland, "we band of brothers, a little older, a little greyer" -- but they appreciate it mainly as a postmodern jest, a way of sticking it to the Republicans. To anybody else, including those sought-after "swing voters" in "battleground states," it's starting to sound a little weird. John Kerry says he's running on his record, but, of his four decades of adult life, he's running on his four months in Vietnam. Of the other 39 years and eight months, there's nary a word.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Another Steyn gem that has already been posted.
Just showing up for work would be nice for starters!
Sorry - I did a search first, but nothning showed up.
I give up - what does the word "excerpted" mean?
I thought it meant taking a small portion of something.
I never saw it either, and I always look for the Mark Steyn articles (and I'm on here most every day). What's the best way to search? I must be missing it. Thanks!
I saw this quote as a headline last week and my reaction was to imagine what the captain would say to him in reply...
"Kerry!!! We're still at Condition One. Your battle station is in the Senate. What in hell are you doing here?"
That says it all. The GOP is the party of ideas. The Dems are the party of the status quo.
The Democrats are FOR this man...
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Ironic that the Socialists are using proud to use capitalism to destroy America.
Like the terrorists who use Western technology to attack us because their pathetic culture is so backward.
Ironic that the Socialists are proud to use capitalism to destroy America.
Like the terrorists who use Western technology to attack us because their pathetic culture is so backward it can't even produce their weapons.
Now, I wonder about 'Rat Kerry's interest in the space program.
Could it be?
THAT is the scary thing about what I saw at the Democratic Convention.
He really said that? LOL!
About the throwing rocks part (LOL) I recall a pair of anecdotes about the British Army in the Napoleonic Wars or perhaps the Crimea, in the days of muzzle loaders, when regiments in square had run out of ammunition, in one case they were throwing rocks at French cavalry and in another their Colonel orders his men to make faces!
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