Posted on 08/26/2004 7:41:15 AM PDT by VRWCer
Qualified psychiatrists would have to say whether John Kerry is mentally ill. But any layman should have no trouble recognizing he’s conducting one sick campaign.
In the study of mental illness is a definable aberration known as “projection.” Sigmund Freud said that’s when a patient, threatened by or afraid of his own darker impulses, resorts to attaching those unacceptable qualities to someone else.
One description in the psychiatric literature puts it this way: “Projection reinforces guilt by displacing it onto someone else, attacking it there and denying its presence in one’s self – an attempt to shift responsibility to others.”
Politics of the Mental Ward
Sensing himself losing instead of winning, the Democrats’ presidential candidate has adopted this defense mechanism as the recurring tactic of his campaign. It works like this:
The Kerry camp resorts to outrageous personal attacks against George W. Bush – demeaning him as a witless dunce, branding him a deserter from military service, depicting him as an illegitimate president, pillorying him as a reckless gunslinger, accusing him of moral cowardice and offering him up to history’s judgment as a latter-day Adolf Hitler guilty of atrocious war crimes.
Nor have those lies been confined to the usual whispers of gutter politics; they have been shouted from the rooftops through the global megaphones of multi-millions of dollars of television ads and an ersatz movie “documentary.”
Hollywood Loonies Acting Out
Even as Kerry stands by smiling and applauding, empty celebrity after valueless celebrity has gone nasty on the public stage to parrot those themes.
Then, quick as a flash and prepared in advance, the moment Bush or anyone in his campaign dares refute any of those lies, Kerry and his surrogates are all over a slavish television accusing the president of attacking him with “fear” and “smear” and “slime.”
Kerry accuses the president of “misleading the American people, hiding behind front groups, saying anything and doing anything,” when in truth Kerry, himself, is guilty many times over of just exactly that.
Kerry Through the Looking Glass
Kerry then has the audacity to ascend the platform once trod by Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union in New York City and intone: “My duty is to be a president who tells the truth.”
In the next breath, he manages to project his projection defense mechanism into the future, a feat that would surely have impressed Freud. Kerry forecasts that the Republican National Convention will consist of four days of “slogans and personal attacks.”
And what was the Democratic National Convention but a feast of hatred for the president of the United States?
Ricochet Mud-Slinging
Discover an immense wart on your own nose and tell the world it’s growing on your opponent’s.
Prof. Freud, if that isn’t a clinical case of psychiatric projection, what is?
The temptation here is to trot out example after example of how Kerry commits a blatant dishonesty or utters a gross calumny about Bush, then immediately blames Bush for doing what he, himself, has just done.
But, in what has become a campaign way of life for Kerry, the man reels them off faster than you can receive them, embalm them, lay them out and give them a proper eulogy.
Keep Him Under Observation
Instead, as this campaign unfolds, simply bear in mind Freud’s defense mechanism for the mentally ill and note how often Kerry employs the subterfuge of projection – blaming Bush for having his own worst qualities and impulses.
Joseph Goebbels, who turned the sick behavior of projection into a political art form for the Nazi Third Reich, accompanied it by repeating the Big Lie over and over until it came to be accepted simply because of its incessant recurrence.
John Kerry is no Joseph Goebbels. He’s not that artful, not even in Goebbels’ league. But the Massachusetts master-radical is swinging away down there in the minors, doing his damnedest in his frenzied effort to make it into the biggies.
John L. Perry, a prize-winning newspaper editor and writer who served on White House staffs of two presidents, is a regular columnist for NewsMax.com.
Is he emotionally challenged? Yes, as per the tagline below.
He's just a victim of "magical thinking". If he thinks it, it is real. Like his war hero status and his exemplary service in the Senate.
The answer: Yes.
No one else lies about such things that are easily detected but a pathological liar.
No one else changes his mind from one day to the next without being a manipulator.
LOL, that describes my "bleedin' heart liberal" cousin to a tee! Guess who she's voting for? Birds of a feather...
At the very least Kerry is dishonest. He knows perfectly well that dispatching Cleland to blame the president was a cheap stunt, as the head of the FEC has already said Kerry doesn't know what he's talking about in that regard.
And isn't the head of the FEC (Smith) and Clinton appointee?
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John Kerry has an obsessive personality.
Projection is a way of life for the DNC in particular and most of Washington in general.
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Well, sure, for a liberal! LOL!
He has an odd personality. Kerry reminds me of Nixon in some ways. Very aloof. Short-tempered. Few friends. Paranoid. Overly concerned about outward appearances and public reaction (but not public opinion). Willing to do silly things to make him seem like a "common man" even though his uncomfortableness in these situations screams that he thinks it is beneath him. Unwilling to let things go even to the point where it is damaging him politically. Basically, he is a very, very liberal Nixon. It would not surprise me at all if he kept an "enemies list."
I have an angry sister and a furious brother in law who are voting for Kerry.
From: The American People
Subject: Sick Leave Request
Based on what we have seen, your request for a leave of absence has been GRANTED.
We urge you to take the next couple months off and relax. Use this period as an opportunity to find yourself and resolve your inner conflicts.
Between Algore, Howeird Dean, and JFK Junior, you begin to wonder why strait jackets ever went out of common usage.
Projection is like putting lipstick on a mirror.
He's also paranoid, delusions of grandeur, insecure in his masculinity, a loner, probably racist, and a poseur.
To be honest, he probably honestly doesn't KNOW who he is.
Kim Jhong Ill maybe.
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