Critical Condition: The Poor Health of the Kerry Campaign

The Weekly Standard ^ | Sept. 20, 2004 | Matthew Continetti

[corbie]

There have been other mistakes....in Cincinnati, Kerry gave an address on Iraq without ever really talking about Iraq....The speech had lost its moorings by the second page. So had the candidate....on September 6, Kerry told his audience in Canonsburg, West Virginia, this story:

"Everybody told me, 'God, if you're coming to Canonsburg, you've got to find time to go to Toy's, and he'll take care of you.' [Toy's is a local restaurant.] I understand it's my kind of place, because you don't have to--you know, when they give you the menu, I'm always struggling: 'Ah, what do you want?' He just gives you what he's got, right? And you don't have to worry, it's whatever he's cooked up that day. And I think that's the way it ought to work, for confused people like me who can't make up our minds."

[corbie]

Read this while sitting in the doctor's office and laughed so hard I cried. He's finally told us the truth!

[NavySEAL F-16]

Matthew Continetti will be on C-Span Washington Journal on Saturday (9/18) at 7:00 a.m. EDT.

[mass55th]

"Critical Condition: The Poor Health of the Kerry Campaign "

Watch them try to get a Purple Heart for this.

[NRA1995]

They are clapping when he shuts up....TaRAYza probably does this too

[Freepdonia]

Yes, I did vote for the shrimp scampi...before I voted against it! - John F. Kerry

[hole_n_one]

He sung the praises of Ohio St. football.........in Michigan.

[NeoCaveman]

Time to call in Kevorkian

[sarasotarepublican]

What a revealing campaign ad that would make.

[halosfan2002]

Ping

[freedumb2003]

He sung the praises of Ohio St. football.........in Michigan.

Let's not forget Wisconsin's "Landry Field" (LOL)

[Argus]

you know, when they give you the menu, I'm always struggling: 'Ah, what do you want?'

For crying out loud, the guy can't even order a hamburger and he wants to be commander in chief.

[Freepdonia]

What a revealing campaign ad that would make.

LOL

[Buttaboom]

"What I was impressed with the most," Dave went on, "was when he (Kerry) was out on that tarmac yesterday. He didn't just scribble his name, every time someone came up to him. He signed his name, he signed it slowly, on every piece of paper put in front of him. Every piece."

LMBO. Dave should have checked for a pulse while he was watching Lurch doodle.

[Texas dog]

"He signed his name, he signed it slowly"

If he doesn't write slowly, he can't remember how it's spelled...

[BossLady]

Critical Condition....I 'd say the Kerry campaign flatlined a couple weeks ago...:o

[upchuck]

Let's not forget Wisconsin's "Landry Field" (LOL)

He said, "Lambert," didn't he? I echo your LOL!!!

[freedumb2003]

He said "Lambert," didn't he?

Yes -- if I am going to quote someone's misquotes I should get it right. But to get something so venerable so wrong is to show just how outside the mainstream he is.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Matthew Continetti writes in a new Weekly Standard article titled "Critical Condition: The poor health of the Kerry campaign"...

And on September 6, Kerry told his audience in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, this story:

Everybody told me, "God, if you're coming to Canonsburg, you've got to find time to go to Toy's, and he'll take care of you." [Toy's is a local restaurant.] I understand it's my kind of place, because you don't have to--you know, when they give you the menu, I'm always struggling: "Ah, what do you want?" He just gives you what he's got, right? And you don't have to worry, it's whatever he's cooked up that day. And I think that's the way it ought to work, for confused people like me who can't make up our minds.

It is no surprise that people doubt his judgement in a crisis. If he can't decide whether to have a hamburger or a cheeseburger, how's he going to respond to a North Korean crisis? And he admits he has trouble making these decisions! What a pathetic loser. A trusted and trustworthy leader would never be so inarticulate in public. His mangles the English language much worse than GWB.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Oops. Posted in wrong place. Meant to post in "Poll: Voters Uneasy About Kerry in Crisis"