Posted on 08/26/2004 6:11:58 AM PDT by Pokey78
The media tried. And they'd still be trying except that Kerry couldn't handle the criticism and elevated it to a national story which he continues to keep alive.
Even the media can't save a bad candidate from himself.
As Hannity told Marty Meehan last night:
You can dish it out but you can't take a hit.
And from Meehan's expression, that shot hit the target.
If that's his play, then he's a complete idiot. Kerry might not want to bring up his Senate record, but you can be damned sure that *Bush* and his people will, repeatedly.
Kerry's walking into a two-front PR war, with himself as the creamy center. He'll be roasted on his Vietnam puffery by the Swiftvets on one side, and lambasted by on his Senate record by Bush on the other. He'll have nowhere to run.
Are you sure? This is the first I've heard of it.
fyi
BRING IT ON!
A short time later:
CALL IT OFF!
Christmas in Cambodia
Kerry now admits that he lied about spending Christmas in Cambodia in 1968 and claiming that Nixon was President at the time. Hes told the story for decades said it was seared in his memory and it was a lie.
Flying Dog
Kerry has said that in the incident that won him a Bronze Star (see below for more), when the mine went off under his boat, his dog (VC) went flying overboard and was thought to be lost. The dog was later recovered by another boat. Only problem a mine did not go off under his boat. The story is a lie.
Throwing away the medals
Kerry has said that he threw away his medal in a famous public demonstration.
Kerry has said that he only threw away his ribbons in a in a famous public demonstration.
Kerry has said that he actually threw away another mans medals at that famous public demonstration.
Kerry has said that he never threw his medals away.
Kerry filed paperwork to get new medals (guess he lost em somewhere).
The evidence of the need to get new medals is highlighted by the signatures on the citations:
Kerry's multiple Silver (3) and Bronze (2) star citations: Two of the five were signed by John Lehman who was Secretary of the Navy in the Reagan Administration 5 Feb 1981 - 10 Apr 1987. There are three Silver Star citations supplied by Kerry. One was signed by ADM Zumwalt, one by ADM Hyland, and one by Secretary Lehman. The Bronze Star citations were signed by Zumwalt and Lehman.
Purple Hearts --
From: "Unfit For Command"
Dec. 2, 1968: Kerry was awarded his first Purple Heart for a tiny piece of shrapnel in his left arm, above the elbow. (Self inflicted.) p.34
Feb. 20, 1969: Kerry was awarded his second Purple Heart after sustaining a minor shrapnel wound in his left thigh. (Self-inflicted, according to his crew.) p. 78
March 13, 1969: He was awarded his third Purple Heart for a contusion (minor) of the right arm sustained in the incident when another boat, PCF 3, detonated a mine. He also fraudulently claimed that the shrapnel in his buttocks, sustained when he and Rassmann blew up a rice cache on land that morning, occurred in this incident. (Contusion doesn't qualify for a PH and shrapnel was self-inflicted.) p. 88
Bronze Star
Wins Bronze Star for fleeing the scene of a mine explosion.
13 Mar 1969 - Five Swift Boats are sent to raid a Vietcong village: Kerry PCF-94, Droz PCF-43, Pees PCF-3, Chenoweth PCF-23, and Thurlow PCF-51. Special Forces Lieutenant Rassman goes along for the ride on Kerry's boat. They depart the LST anchored offshore at 7:30 am, cruise about 11 miles up the Bay Hap River, then about 3 miles up the Dong Cung Canal, and get to the village at 8:15 am.
1. The village is deserted. As they are returning to the boat, Kerry and Rassmann decide to blow up a five-ton rice bin. They climb on top of the huge pile and dig a hole in the rice. On the count of three, they toss their grenades into the hole and run. Kerry doesn't run fast enough. He gets hit in the butt by some pieces of rice.
2. As the five boats are returning down the Bay Hap River, they come to a fishing net stretched across the middle of the river. As PCF-94 is going around the fishing net to the right and PCF-3 is going around it to the left, a mine explodes under PCF-3.
3. Simultaneously: (a) Kerry goes to full throttle, which causes Rassmann to fall overboard, and flees down the river with all his guns firing at the shore, and (b) the other three boats go to help PCF-3 with all their guns firing at the shore.
4. After 40 seconds, PCF-43, PCF-23 and PCF-51 cease fire, but Kerry keeps on firing and fleeing down the river.
5. PCF-43, PCF-23 and PCF-51 work together to rescue the crew of PCF-3 and keep PCF-3 from sinking.
6. Kerry finally turns around, comes back, and fishes Rassmann out of the water.
7. As PCF 23 is leaving the area to take the three seriously injured men from PCF-3 to the Coast Guard cutter offshore, Kerry jumps in PCF-23 and goes with them.
8. PCF-94 (without Kerry) tows the badly damaged PCF-3.
9. Kerry writes the after-action report that portrays him as a hero. He does not mention the fact that he abandoned the other boats and fled from what he thought was a battle, or that he abandoned his own boat and rode home with the wounded.
Silver Star
Kerry won this award for shooting a wounded man in the back. Thats not necessarily an improper action (the man was apparently holding a rocket launcher). But the Silver Star is our nations third highest award. It is not usually given out for administering a Coup de Grace to a wounded enemy.
Additionally, Kerrys Silver Star apparently came with a V citation. But Silver Stars never come that way, so there is either a lie buried in there, or else a file clerk made an error (which could happen easily enough).
I would love to see a short 15 second ad....Kerry's BRING - IT - ON! followed by Edwards' STOP - THESE - ADS!
Thanks, Pokey78. Steyn nails it as usual.
"And from Meehan's expression, that shot hit the target."
Hehe, I saw that. There is a great piece by Mark Steyn up on FR today that I think you would enjoy. I'll go find it and ping you to it, if I may be presumptuous.
Never mind, this is the piece. LOL, I need more coffee or less reading.
Excellent, Big Daddy!!! Mind if I adopt that for my new tagline?
bump
Ought to be on the front page of every major newspaper in the country...and all of the minor ones also.
Yeah, I know....no chance.
But still. . . "BUDDA BOOM! BIG BUDDA BOOM!"
Mark Steyn ping.
John F*ckin' never retired from Vietnam. He simply took a three decade leave of absence.
From your lips to God's (AND EVERYBODY ELSE'S) ears!
See this group of Swift Boats patrolling together? They are NOT SERVING together!!! Only the ones on the SAME BOAT are serving together! Each group of personnel on each boat know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the personnel on the other boat, PERIOD !! If they say they do, they are Republican LIARS !! Unless the one talking is a DemocRAT. Then he is telling the truth, of course.
This idjit needs to release HIS MILITARY RECORDS!
Help the Kerry Campaign With Its paperwork!
Email Them a Standard Form 180 Now!
You're 100% right; allow the vets (of which I proudly am one) continue with their agenda. Let the rest of us move on a parallel path with the liar's miserable senate record.
I love the smell of a landslide in November!
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