Frankly, I'm really tired of hearing about "Kerry hatred". I don't see anything of the sort here at Free Republice...and if it's out there, this is where it would show up. No, what we see here is Kerry derision...jokes, jaw dropping disbelief at our luck that he's turned out to be such a doofus candidate (not to mention his wife). We get angry at all the lies they tell. But, hate? No.
So to Mr. McLaughlin and you MSM's reading our tea leaves here, searching desperately for hateful, racist, homophobic comments, take note. Kerry is a JOKE, not a victim of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
I think Bush should use that Aaron Tipton song "You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything", everytime he talks about SKerry.
If you want someone who hates sKerry, I am just about as close as you can find. I DO enjoy the derision of sKerry, but if he had any real (legal) chance of winning this election, the hate would probably come to the fore.
I hate him, and all his buddies who hurt my comrades in arms of the VietNam War... the way he belittled us in the eyes of the American people and the world. I hate his traitorous behavior.
I'll post another time a little anecdote of mine... - - -
I was personally spit on, as were many of my friends.
A buddy of mine here at Cornell had blood thrown at him, and others were assaulted.
This was due to sKerry's "testimony" of lies at the "hearings" as much as anything else. sKerry gave great credibility to knee-jerk egotistical pacifist isolationists. His charges against our brave military men have not been forgotten - but the Swifties are reminding the 'Nam vets and their families EXACTLY WHO did that testimony, and many of us who remembered that testimony had forgotten who had created such lies.
The effect on the morale of our troops was devastating. The leadership of the country was devastated, too. They had already been in a defensive mode to begin with instead of an aggressive "win the war" mode - they went into a "buy our way out of it" mode. Some pointed with credibility to sKerry's "we'd have to protect 3000 S.Vietnamese who might be harmed by the NV" --- that was always complete bunk, but people WANTED to believe it. Over Three million were killed after we left. sKerry was wrong there, and he lied about the rest, too. If the hearings had been more positive, it might have defused the peaceniks a bit, and we may well have gone on to make an attempt to stop micromanaging that conflict, and let our guys win the war.
Many of the culprits have recognized they were wrong - take David Horowitz as an example, as well as many FReepers who have stated as much here. sKerry is still trying to defend his indefensible actions.
Kerry's a bona fide liar. He and his VVAW buddies encouraged others to lie. He is as close to a traitor as anybody I know of.
I stated (at length in discussions) on a thread a some time ago that this is now not only a battle between the SwiftVets and the peaceniks of the 60s, but that this campaign has become a battle - a great battle - between the Old Media Fraudcasters and other mediots, and the New Media - with talk radio/ internet/ blogs.
This has become a battle to the death. Only one will be left standing. The 'Nam Vets (including me and many of my fellows in arms) are not going to be able to be silenced by the President or by the Demodogs or by the Fraudcasters. We know the truth. There is a great well of support we can draw on, and righteous anger about the way we have been treated. Many others are just as angry about how they have been misled by the Fraudcasters and the NYSlimes, et al, and they are now seeing a way to "get a bit of their own back.