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Kerry's showing he just can't take the heat
Chicago Sun Times ^ | September 5, 2004 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 09/04/2004 5:44:17 AM PDT by visagoth

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To: metesky; Admin Moderator
I feel no guilt at all over fantasizing that when the election is over Theraza dumps the gold digger, that he spends the next four years hiding in the Senate cloakroom swilling vodka and soiling himself, that in 2006 the voters of Massachusetts turn him out in favor of an advanced kitchen appliance, and finally he ends up drinking his Senate pension in a squalid Latino gin mill in Boca Rotten within RGP range of the new mosque incoherently mumbling at frightened tourists, "Do ya know who I used to be?"

My nomination for the Quote of the Week. Nicely done!

101 posted on 09/04/2004 7:41:29 AM PDT by Pharmboy (History's greatest agent for freedom: The US Armed Forces)
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To: Graymatter
Please don't give the man any good advice, there's still time for him to take it.

Kerry would never take advice. To paraphrase Elwood Blues, he's on a mission from Ego.

102 posted on 09/04/2004 7:41:39 AM PDT by Snake65 (Osama Bin Decomposing)
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To: easonc52

Excellent! Made me laugh! Series, I'd take the Kirby first. Lot more effective in cleaning up dirt; with less maintenance and overhead.


103 posted on 09/04/2004 7:42:41 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: RedEyeJack
Kerry seems to have a lot of memory problems... Springfield apparently called "Springdale", confusing Ohio and Michigan football teams, Baseball players names, etc.
We have had posts that are unsubstantiated that indicate that Alzheimer's runs in his family (mother and father?).

Haven't seen any reference to Alzheimer's, but Kerry's problem could be much simpler: You don't forget things that are important to you. And nothing and nobody is important to Kerry except himself!

104 posted on 09/04/2004 7:43:36 AM PDT by maryz
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To: mylife

You wrote:
"''This is your wake up call!''
Is that five words? Or is it six?"

America only needs two words for John Kerry.

;-)


105 posted on 09/04/2004 7:44:44 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: zencat

You wrote:

"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."

Sounds more like the Kennedy family biography.
Oh, Kennedy is from Massachusetts just like Kewwy.


106 posted on 09/04/2004 7:46:45 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: SheLion
I think they'll have to dope him up.

How do you dope up, a dope? Do you want Dork to OD? Then he'd out-Lurch, Lurch.

107 posted on 09/04/2004 7:47:35 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: ken5050

Kerry's in deep, Deep doodoo, and will say and do anything to keep his base's attention, so he'll get at least a few liberal votes, and to keep the contributions flowing.

Amazing that with all the money Kerry's been taking in, and spending, the huge Soros money base backing him, plus the covert millions Terayza's putting out, that a teeny tiny SBV $250K ad started Kerry's collapse, while Bush's convention finished Kerry off.


108 posted on 09/04/2004 7:48:03 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

FWIW, my take on Kerry's near panicked midnight rally, after Bush's speech, is not that it was a reaction to the GOP convention, rather, it was a desperate pre-emptive stike against what is still to come from the SBVFT.


109 posted on 09/04/2004 7:51:26 AM PDT by ken5050 (Bill Clinton has just signed to be the national spokesman for Hummer..)
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To: visagoth

> Kerry just keeps owning himself everytime he opens his
> mouth. I think the UNFIT sticks - and he oughta wear it.

Unfit to Command
Unfit to Campaign, too


110 posted on 09/04/2004 7:55:13 AM PDT by Boundless
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To: CarolTX

It was hard to pick out one phrase to discuss........all of Steyn's phrases are gems.


111 posted on 09/04/2004 7:55:16 AM PDT by Liz
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To: JesseHousman

Where the heck have they been hiding Mrs. Ketchup anyway. I was looking forward to some really funny moments of her kicking John FN's butt in public. Like a circus bear that gets out of control.


112 posted on 09/04/2004 7:55:19 AM PDT by Dave278 ("Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ")
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To: visagoth
If ''return to normalcy'' means four years of a grimly humorless, touchy, self-regarding Kerry presidency, I'll take the war.

I missed the author's name before reading the article. Just part of the way through it, I was thinking, "Wow! Has this guy nailed it, or what? He is as great as Mark Steyn!"

Silly me. It was Mark Steyn!!

113 posted on 09/04/2004 7:56:48 AM PDT by Gritty ("Kerry is running on the platform no one has the right to say anything mean about him!-Mark Steyn)
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To: Viet-Boat-Rider

> John Kerry knows that he didn't serve a Tour,
> let alone TWO Tours, in Vietnam ...

"Tour of Duty"

The fiction begins with the title.

Or: that title can only be truthful if Kerry was a tourist.

Use either of these lines when people bring up the book,
and let them ask you what you mean.


114 posted on 09/04/2004 7:57:51 AM PDT by Boundless
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To: Viet-Boat-Rider

Kerry cannot count tours any better than he can count his words.


115 posted on 09/04/2004 8:00:35 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (ridesthemiles)
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To: visagoth
"humorless, touchy, self-regarding." Yes, but remember he's nuanced.
116 posted on 09/04/2004 8:02:36 AM PDT by Malesherbes
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To: ken5050; Grampa Dave; Libloather; onyx; Fracas; Fedora; MeekOneGOP; Mudboy Slim; CarolTX

Here's another goodie:

Still whining, Kerry running out of time
A Boston Herald editorial
Saturday, September 4, 2004

It's time John Kerry chooses between being a whiner and being a leader. His midnight performance Thursday and remarks at events Friday showed he's yet to get the difference in this campaign.


Americans do not want to hear Kerry's whining about being ``attacked'' and ``insulted'' at the Republican National Convention. Americans do not want to hear his childish claims that he was attacked first and therefore he now must attack back. Americans do not want to hear the Democratic nominee call the commander in chief during a war where American lives are on the line ``unfit for office and unfit for duty.''

They want to hear that he is as committed as President Bush to stopping fanatics from taking over American schools and slaughtering children. And if he has better ideas about how to go about doing it than Bush does, Americans want to hear those, too.


For this is what we are facing. Anyone thinking the Russian school massacre couldn't happen here underestimates the lack of moral conscience
which exists in the likes of al-Qaeda, Hamas and other extremists.

Partisan Democrats, with an air of intellectual superiority, sniff that terror is a tactic, not a cause.

They do so to imply that President Bush and his supporters don't even understand the nature of the world's dangers, never mind the correct means to protect against them.

President Bush left no doubt that he understands completely in his acceptance speech Thursday night. ``If America shows uncertainty or weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.''

We bet John Kerry would like to have his Thursday microphone-clutching performance for the cameras back given the Russian horror.

His complaints about attacks on his patriotism (as opposed to the voting record critique we heard) would be merely annoying if played only against the backdrop of a political contest. But the larger contest - between liberty and tyranny, between good and evil - is the challenge against which Kerry's and Bush's leadership will be measured. And on that score, Kerry's thin-skin and oft-used tactic of claiming he's forced to attack because of unfair smears is not only unimpressive, it's offensive. And it's about time someone called him on it.

Defining differences is what campaigns are all about.

George W. Bush told the country in no uncertain terms what he will do in a second term. And he told the country how his beliefs and record differ from Kerry's.

That's just what Zell Miller did. That's just what Dick Cheney did. That's just what Rudy Giuliani did.

Stop whining, Senator, and start telling voters why you believe you're right and these men are wrong.


117 posted on 09/04/2004 8:03:08 AM PDT by Liz
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To: visagoth

We saw that when he was soooo drunk at his own rally ;o)


118 posted on 09/04/2004 8:05:28 AM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: stockpirate
In the midnight hour, he climbed out of his political coffin</>

Was 'surfing' through MSNBC last night. Oberman(sp) was doing a replay of Gore....er Kerry's midnight speech. And at the top left corner of the screen was a cartoon Dracula!

If the liberals at MSNBC are mocking Kerry before Labor Day, can you imagine what they will be doing to him by Haloween?

119 posted on 09/04/2004 8:08:13 AM PDT by CT (Oppose Left Wing Anti-American 'Hatriotsim)
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To: visagoth

120 posted on 09/04/2004 8:10:04 AM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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