Kerry's showing he just can't take the heat

Chicago Sun Times ^ | September 5, 2004 | Mark Steyn

[zencat]

Kerry's Swift Boat is taking on water. . fast. .and the Captain is going down with the ship.

The libs are in full on rage and self destructing. Their attempt to play the RNC convention as a hate fest is so obviously false. Susan Estrich is now saying the libs have to go not just negative, but dirty. Such as, do the American people really know their President is an alcoholic, that Bush's girlfriend had an abortion, that Laura Bush killed her boyfriend in a car crash, etc.

That's utter desperation, and will backfire on them just as the all out attempt to smear Arnold did in California.

But no complacency. I want a blowout, if not a landslide. The Democrats must pay and suffer for their actions.

[Pharmboy]

If Kerry weren't such a self-obsessed, ambitious, social climbing, money-grubbing, back-stabbing, lying Euro-socialist, I would almost feel sorry for him.

[nicmarlo]

He will have to be prepared for several characters..

That host of characters have come out so often already, Bush is already prepared...he just needs to take the cue and he's off to the races. : )

[CaraM]

check C-Span. They may have it in their archives.

[oyez]

Has any of the painstream media pointed out Kerry's poor math skills as in "five words" as they did Dan Qualle's "pototoe"?

[SheLion]

I can hear Kerry now (about the debates with the President): "Bring 'em on" (then he'll whine and cry afterwards, when he's made a spectacle of himself, declaring Bush to be "mean" and "devisive" etc.).

Oh sure! President Bush will be all smiling and confident, and FnKerry spewing, then after the debates, he will wimper and cry that Bush is nothing but a big bully. You watch.

FnKerry want's a 'softer gentler' nation. So, he will run as a 'girly man,' and scream that Bush is a big bully. I can see it coming.

I'd much rather have our Country in the hands of a solid man, then a wimper girly man that will bend over for every country in the world. If you know what I mean.........

[SheLion]

All President Bush has to say is 'Nucuuuuuler'.

And IMHO, all President Bush has to do is STAND there. I can't wait to see him snicker at FnKerry. LOL!

You know that little snicker he can give? I always laugh when he does that.

[dr_who_2]

How could four months be "two tours of duty"?

[mylife]

www.cspan.org Do a search for "kerry springfield"

The part 31 min into the speech about 1 guy saluting him and saying "thats america" is my favorite part

[texson66]

Thank you for your insight into scary Kerry AND, most importantly, YOUR service to our country. Thank you!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Good Lord, we just can't get RID of these people!

50,000,000 voters care about nothing but having abortions, gay sex, government nanny and don't ask me for anything or we would never have heard of these people.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

How could four months be "two tours of duty"?

Unless they carry you out it obviously isn't.

[Liz]

............(Kerry) feels it's lese majeste even to question him. He can talk about Vietnam 24/7, but nobody else is allowed to bring it up..............

Beautiful insight by Steyn.

Kerry's arrogant "sense of entitlement"-----he considers himself the rightful heir to the presidency-----is a disturbing pre-Revolutionary war image, ala King George IV, that Kerry is totally oblivious to.

Kerry has been planning and scheming to "wear the crown" for so long that he goes ballistic when the rest of America doesn't see it his way.

His arrogance is apparent in that he actually thought he was going to get away with ascending to the presidency on the basis of his Viet service without any questions being raised.

[TommyDale]

"If you can't take the heat, get three Band-Aid Purple Hearts and get out of Vietnam!"

[dennisw]

bttttttt

[Gunder]

I was watching GWB this morning (on-line) at one of his rallies. The man is definitely in "the zone." He's up in the polls, on top of his game, and the crowd loved it.

I'm looking forward to the debates.

[metesky]

With any luck, this election will shatter the hold this imperious elitist dolt has on the voters of Massachusetts.

[ken5050]

The combination of hubris and tunnel vision is deadly in national politics..

[dennisw]

Thanks for clearing that up about what a real tour of duty in Vietnam was. Kerry failed the one year standard. He spent one year full tour on the USS Gridley which was hardly ever in Vietnam waters

[KeyWest]

I think the tour question is related to the way the approval for the bronze combat stars were assigned. A "tour" in Vietnam was one year but the stars you could pin on your ribbon was determined by when you were there. So you could be there for a short time and have two stars, or a longer time and have only one. I was there on USS Wainwright in 68-69 and were allowed to have two bronze stars (not ever shot at so no silver) on our service medal, even though we were on station (off and on) over a six month period (eight month deployment). So were there for two combat "tours" even though we were not there for a year, an actual time/duration "tour".