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The Cult of Kerry
Town Hall ^ | August 21, 2004 | Doug Giles

Posted on 08/21/2004 7:21:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Listening to the Democrats speak about John Kerry must be what it was like hearing Saint Peter describe Christ to his fishing buddies. Kerry can do no wrong. No matter what is written or said about the Senator, the Dems find no fault in the man. He’s perfect.

Just look at his website, JohnKerry.com. Why, he’s squeaky clean; he’s a truth telling war hero and good guy, with an impeccable public record who should replace that terrible rascal George W. Bush. Kerry, according to the Dems, is the savior of these United States.

End of discussion. Crown him with many crowns! Yeah, right.

According to the liberal-left, Kerry has never – no, NEVER - lied, prevaricated, exaggerated, or obfuscated. He has never flipped flopped. If he has done a 180 on an issue it is because he is evolving … transforming like a little butterfly. And we all know development is a complicated process, don’t we? Therefore, one must be understanding with Kerry during his miraculous presidential metamorphosis. He’s flowering. Be gentle.

Given the vast secularization of the left it’s touching to see such faith. Yes, the Democrats’ willingness to completely, implicitly trust, back, defend, go out on a limb for and stake their careers on this man is simply -- religious.

My question is: what kind of goofy grape Jim Jones juice do the Democrats and the Liberal media’s Axis of Drivel, drink to make them utterly and completely believe everything this guy says and never seriously question him, his war claims or his vacillating voting records?

Kerry has worked some serious voodoo on his backers, and he’s now trying to do it on us voters.

We are told, you see, that Saint John Kerry is immaculate, that we should believe what he and a smattering of others say about him during his Nam days, and that we should blow off his 20 year voting history. Just drink the [poisonous] grape juice and let him run the country.

Kum Ba Ya, My Senator, Kum ba ya.

The liberals want the masses to believe Kerry, make a Hegelian leap of faith, blow off all the massive accusations and empirical evidence … and embrace him. We can do this!

First, by just moving on from all that Swift Boat stuff. Geez, guys, Kerry said he’s telling the truth. Let it be. The carefully scripted, evasive half-answers and the New York Times’ tilted take is good enough for the Democrats. So, what’s the problem? I mean, who cares if 60 eyewitnesses, and a total of 254 combat mates, think Kerry is a grade “A” bulls**t artist? No need to check the facts: they’ve gotta be wrong, and Kerry’s obviously right. Drink the juice.

Now, repeat after me: it makes no difference that John-boy claimed until just last week that he spent Christmas Eve 1968 in Cambodia. It’s really just a bit of poor navigation that he was 55 miles away, deep in Vietnam, although he insisted on it every chance he got including on the Senate floor.

And it really, really doesn’t matter that he claimed Richard Nixon was the lying president at the time, although he still was waiting to be inaugurated. We all know that worse things have been said about Nixon, so you can’t blame the ever-so-honest, self-righteous John Forbes Kerry.

Anyway, those suspicious Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads were floated by rich Republicans – from Texas! friends of the Bush family!! - and we know how disreputable and discrediting that kind of activity is when a partisan guy with $200 thousand gives it to a 527 organization for smear ads. [Hey! Don’t anybody mention George Soros giving $10 million to MoveOn.org!] You know this grape juice is really pretty tasty.

Secondly, we all could move on and embrace Kerry if Ann Coulter would just chill on making a big deal out of Kerry bringing a movie camera with him to re-enact his purportedly heroic acts. Mariah Carey and Michael Jackson often have people around them filming their actions, so … what’s weird about Kerry doing it? You and I both know that if Sony digi-cams were around in Christ’s day, he’d have Bartholomew rolling on him while he was doing His gallant deeds. And they’d do several different takes until Bart got it right. More funky juice, please.

Thirdly, we could move on and embrace Kerry if we would all back off the major television outlets for not carrying detailed coverage of the Swifties’ best-selling book, Unfit for Command, which is #1 on Amazon, in it’s fifth printing with Regnery, and yet very difficult to find at major bookstores in liberal cities. Look, Tailgunner Joe … TV news shows are busy with other things. The Olympics are being played. Hello! And in addition to the games we really must see the documentary about how the male Olympian overcame chronic jock itch, an overbearing mother with a mustache and a penchant for prancing around in stiletto heels, to become the great athlete he is. Yes, we need more of this stuff. Hours of it. Uh… excuse me… my goofy grape Nehi is running a little low.

Fourthly, we could all move on and climb into Kerry’s boat by believing John, who from now on, is going to go medieval against those terrorists. Kerry has promised us that he can be a mean guy to bad people and that he will do whatever it takes to secure us at home and abroad. We need to believe him and not let little things bother us. Things like this wanna be JFK skipping out on 78% of 49 hearings while he served on the Senate intelligence committee.

We shouldn’t flinch over Kerry’s proposal just after the first [1993] attack on the World Trade Center to slash $7.5 billion from our intelligence budget. And who can fault Kerry for voting 12 times between 1990 and 2003 against higher pay for America's hardworking volunteer military?

Can it really be a sticking point with people if our two Johns, Kerry and Edwards, are two of only four US Senators who voted for the use of force resolution against Iraq and against the $87 billion funding bill for our troops there and in Afghanistan? What harm is there in voting against extra money for body armor for soldiers and against increased combat pay for troops? You can still be tough on terrorists, right?

We must not judge Kerry based on what he has done ... only on what he says he will do. Kerry, like Francis Dolarhyde, is becoming and it’s not fair to equate him with what he was. Come on, people. Do what the Dems do. Throw your hands up in the air and say, “Oh well … whatever”. Give me more goofy grape because I like-a da juice.

Fifthly, we can really embrace Kerry very easily: simply believe that he means it when he says he’ll cut the middle classes’ taxes. All we have to do is forget he’s voted 98 times for tax increases totaling more than $2.3 trillion and voted at least 126 times against tax cuts totaling more than $5.3 trillion. Just believe Kerry even though he’s voted 73 times to reduce the size of a tax cut, 67 times for smaller tax cuts and 11 times against repealing tax hikes … and even when he voted for Bill Clinton’s largest tax increase in U.S. history! If Kerry says he’s not going to tax us, just be cool …close your eyes ... and keep the grape juice flowing.

And lastly, we can all join the Kerry cult, by buying into his take on abortion: life begins at conception but the woman has the right to snuff that life out. Maybe it’s not so nice, but it’s no big deal continuing the greatest holocaust to ever hit our planet -- murdering unborn children. On that one, altar boy, make wacky Welch's a double.

My ClashPoint is this: Kerry’s crowd is so blinded by anti-Bush frothing fervor they have completely lost their objectivity and have halo-ed this cat. No, no, no, John Kerry’s not a liar. His voting record doesn’t contradict his newfound convictions … and the king is not naked. It’s OK, cuz … O.J. is innocent, and Scott Peterson didn’t kill Laci and their baby. Oh, and Britney Spears can sing, and Andy Dick is a thespian.

Kerry’s cult may see a glow around their do-no-wrong golden boy’s head but I don’t think it’s a halo. It’s probably methane gas from the fetid fecal fumes that are steaming off his body.

No Jim Jones juice for me, thank you.


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A member of Kerry's cult:

Whining Republicans Out Fund-Raised By 527 Orgs, Using Old Barb-- Emotional Instability Accusations***.....For years, these sleazyoid right wingers have used thirty party organizations to attack from a distance. But now, the democrats, the left and progressives have outsmarted these whining, dirty-trickster liars. More money has been raised on the left than on the right. So all of a sudden, the right wing is whining an calling legal 527 PACs that run ads "Shadowy organizations." Well geez, these lower than whale shit right wing liars invented the third party sponsored attack ads. Hell, Bush won the primary by allowing the same people funding and putting together the weasel liar swift boat attack ads to create ads attacking John McCain.

But I want to talk about the way toxic right wingers attempt to label, calssify, profile democrats as crazy, angry, upset, unstable, "wild-eyed" or manic. .....***

1 posted on 08/21/2004 7:21:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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In case you haven't seen it, this is the flier that LIBERALS claim ties Bush with the Swift Boat Vets. They're grasping at straws.

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This flier was sent to news organizations Friday, Aug. 20, 2004 by the Kerry campaign after it was spotted by a volunteer for John Kerry in a Bush-Cheney campaign office in Gainesville, Fla. A volunteer for John Kerry said Friday he picked up a flier in a Bush-Cheney campaign office in Gainesville, Fla., promoting Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group the Bush campaign has insisted for weeks it has no connection to. (AP Photo/HO)

2 posted on 08/21/2004 7:26:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Freeper N. Theknow says:
"It’s faster than a checkbook, more powerful than a Democratic demagogue, able to lay waste to a liar Kerry with the single click of a mouse. It's a little bird of truth, it's plain to see Kerry's unfit... it's... it's...SuperFReep!

Want to join in the fun? Click the logo to donate to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth!

3 posted on 08/21/2004 7:28:22 AM PDT by Chieftain (Support the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and expose Hanoi John's FRAUD!)
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The face of George W. Bush is crossed off.


U.S. veterans of the Vietnam war, John Lancater (L), Andre Sauvageeot (2nd L), Phil Karber (2nd R) and Chuck Searcy (R), wear T-shirts in support of the U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry, in Hanoi August 21, 2004. With the U.S. presidential race taking a decidedly bitter turn over John Kerry's Vietnam war record, U.S. veterans in Hanoi are selling T-shirts supporting his run for the White House. REUTERS/Kham

4 posted on 08/21/2004 7:29:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Chieftain

Bump!


5 posted on 08/21/2004 7:30:04 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: All

U.S. veteran of the Vietnam war Phil Karber wears a 'Vote for Kerry' T-shirt in support of the U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry, in Hanoi August 21, 2004. With the U.S. presidential race taking a decidedly bitter turn over Kerry's Vietnam war record, U.S. veterans in Hanoi are selling T-shirts supporting his run for the White House. REUTERS/str
6 posted on 08/21/2004 7:32:54 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Something fishy about Sandusky's appearance there in Gainesville Wed the 18th and the timing relating to this fax.

Also, don't know if anyone else on this thread commented on this yet, but the flyer says VETS not VETERANS. I pointed it out here:

The Kerry Kool-aiders are grasping are straws. There is NOTHING remotely wrong with this flyer. They are just trying to make something out of nothing.

If you really wanna show your disgust with Kerry, follow the instructions below:

Freeper N. Theknow says:
"It’s faster than a checkbook, more powerful than a Democratic demagogue, able to lay waste to a liar Kerry with the single click of a mouse. It's a little bird of truth, it's plain to see Kerry's unfit... it's... it's...SuperFReep!

Want to join in the fun? Click the logo to donate to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth!

7 posted on 08/21/2004 7:33:20 AM PDT by Chieftain (Support the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and expose Hanoi John's FRAUD!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

"More funky juice, please."

LOL, good article, truly funky!


8 posted on 08/21/2004 7:35:04 AM PDT by jocon307 (That's allowed, as long as we all vote for W.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I wonder if any of those guys ever stayed at the Hanoi Hilton?


9 posted on 08/21/2004 7:35:15 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Uday is DU in Pig Latin)
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To: Fresh Wind; jocon307

It takes all kinds, but these people have lost their way.


10 posted on 08/21/2004 7:37:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Nitwit Kerry supporters would have equal enthusiasm if it was Pee Wee Herman running instead.

A fatwa from the left has been decreed and the jihad against Bush cannot be countered by reason. The Kerristic Isgreatist Jihad movement are acting under blind faith.

11 posted on 08/21/2004 7:39:33 AM PDT by True Capitalist
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Good morning.

How hard is it to obtain a flier announcing a rally of a 527 group and send it to a TV station, claiming it was picked up at a Republican office? They are getting a bit pitiful.

Your snippet is similar to some of the saner ones I've seen at DU. The hate there is astonishing at times, but I'm under impression most are from adolescents presently suffering the ill effects of rampant hormones.

12 posted on 08/21/2004 7:39:45 AM PDT by TheGeezer (If only I had skin as thick as Ann Coulter, and but half her intelligence...)
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To: Fresh Wind

"I wonder if any of those guys ever stayed at the Hanoi Hilton?"

Yeah, I mean Hanoi?!?!?! This is starting to get a little Manchurian for my tastes. Aren't there any Veterans for Kerry in some other country, somewhere other than Communist Vietnam?


13 posted on 08/21/2004 7:40:46 AM PDT by jocon307 (That's allowed, as long as we all vote for W.)
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To: TheGeezer

Well the fact is, Republicans can associate with the Swift Vets all they want. This is a free country.

Now if George W. Bush and his administration hooked up with the Swift Vets that would cross that line set up to reform soft money and violate this nutty system.

Isn't this all just so silly?


14 posted on 08/21/2004 7:43:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Boo Hoo...pooor whining Mr. Kerry!! WANTING the public to believe him and the DNC is not GETTING that to happen!! Has anyone noticed that the swiftboat vets don't change their story, and they answer all the questions clearly, regardless of the rude questions Kerry has thrown at them?? Kerry's fight is with THEM, not the President. W was not there, is staying clear of this as he should. Kerry is RESPONSIBLE for the anti Vietnam war talk and horrible treatment our vets experienced when they came home. Kerry wanted to cripple this country.He found a way. He stood up there and bad mouthed all of them and called them everyname in the book and accused them of things that didn't happen. He did this in front of Congress and the whole country. No wonder they want him exposed.


15 posted on 08/21/2004 7:44:05 AM PDT by cousair
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To: True Capitalist
...A fatwa from the left has been decreed and the jihad against Bush cannot be countered by reason. ..

Bump!

16 posted on 08/21/2004 7:44:35 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Chieftain

Interesting observation!


17 posted on 08/21/2004 7:45:52 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
My question is: what kind of goofy grape Jim Jones juice do the Democrats and the Liberal media’s Axis of Drivel, drink to make them utterly and completely believe everything this guy says and never seriously question him, his war claims or his vacillating voting records?

The only surprising thing in that is his own surprise. Was he born yesterday? Was he asleep during the Clinton years?

Kerry is the Democrats' boy, and if they show hesitation or skepticism his candidacy will start to crumble. There's nothing to wonder about there, and those who "don't get it" don't inspire confidence in their insights.

18 posted on 08/21/2004 7:46:12 AM PDT by x
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The 'Cult of the Personality' knows no borders.......there is loyalty and then there is blind devotion...

In all human relationships if people kept their eyes on Jesus instead of their leaders or partners...they would be voting and acting with open eyes rather than the fogged over variety...

imo


19 posted on 08/21/2004 7:47:15 AM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: cousair
Has anyone noticed that the swiftboat vets don't change their story, and they answer all the questions clearly, regardless of the rude questions Kerry has thrown at them?? Kerry's fight is with THEM, not the President. W was not there, is staying clear of this as he should.

Well, like the whimp he is, Kerry is calling the president out because he can't address this. Kerry won't face the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth because they are the real deal and Kerry lied and men died.

20 posted on 08/21/2004 7:47:52 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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