THE KERRYNESS OF KERRY -- The Clown Prince of U.S. Politics!

http://www.iconoclast.ca/NewPage11.asp ^ | MARK STEYN

[Apolitical]

If it weren't for the small matter of the war for civilization, I'd find it hard to resist a Kerry Presidency. Groucho Marx once observed that an audience will laugh at an actress playing an old lady pretending to fall downstairs, but, for a professional comic to laugh, it has to be a real old lady. That's how I feel about the Kerry campaign. For the professional political analyst, watching Mondale or Dukakis or Howard Dean stuck in the part of the guy who falls downstairs is never very satisfying: they're average, unexceptional fellows whom circumstances have conspired to transform into walking disasters. But Senator Kerry was made for the role, a vain thin-skinned droning blueblood with an indestructible sense of his own status but none at all of his own ridiculousness. If Karl Rove had labored for a decade to produce a walking parody of the contemporary Democratic Party's remoteness, condescension, sense of entitlement, public evasiveness and tortured relationship with military matters, he couldn't have improved on John F Kerry......

[Apolitical]

Vingtage Mark Steyn.

[atomicpossum]

If there's anyone on the liberal side that can write as well and as effectively as Steyn, I'd like to see them.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Bad link, to another excerpt.

Good link:

http://www.steynonline.com/pageprint.cfm?edit_id=27

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[John_7Diamonds]

I agree. If the job was not critical then it would be fun to have Kerry as prez for a year or so until he resigned from pressure and approval ratings in the high 20's.

Could you imagine the mess he would create?? Wouldn't it be fun to watch him make a fool of himself??

John

[plangent]

Oh My, Yessss!

a vain thin-skinned droning blueblood with an indestructible sense of his own status but none at all of his own ridiculousness

Whoooo Wheee!

[bluejean]

"For a couple of years now, I’ve heard bigtime Democrats say that 'of course' they support our troops even though they oppose the war. I’ve never quite understood what that meant. But I think that’s what most Dems saw in Kerry: they supported a soldier who opposed a war because he was the embodiment of their straddle."

Superb article. Mark Steyn hammers one home. If the Democrats could develop consciences, and learn to be embarrassed at the continual "morning afters" of thier party's existence, perhaps there would be some hope. As it stands, they're hopeless. Until there is a place on the inside again for the likes of Zell Miller, the inmates will be running their asylum.

[Vision Thing]

I'm not an admin monitor (neither do I play one on TV), but the article was posted in full in the following, earlier thread:

THE KERRYNESS OF KERRY (Put down your coffee; it's Mark Steyn time)

[evets]

Well. Isn't that special?

[Mike Bates]

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for the Steyn link; while I love iconoclast.ca, I get weird formatting when I try to read their stuff.

This is one of the best articles I've ever read from Steyn, and THAT's saying a LOT!

Ping to this link for your list, Pokey!

[alwaysconservative]

For the professional political analyst, watching Mondale or Dukakis or Howard Dean stuck in the part of the guy who falls downstairs is never very satisfying: they’re average, unexceptional fellows whom circumstances have conspired to transform into walking disasters. But Senator Kerry was made for the role, a vain thin-skinned droning blueblood with an indestructible sense of his own status but none at all of his own ridiculousness. If Karl Rove had labored for a decade to produce a walking parody of the contemporary Democratic Party’s remoteness, condescension, sense of entitlement, public evasiveness and tortured relationship with military matters, he couldn’t have improved on John F Kerry.

Steyn has outdone even himself!

[littleleaguemom]

My favorite snippet:

In 1960, accepting the nomination in another perilous time, the prototype JFK, the one warming up the initials for the present colossus, never felt the need to mention PT-109, never mind base his entire candidacy on it, or reunite his crew to serve as warm-up act and campaign mascots. But 44 years on today’s Dems loved condescending to Kerry’s “band of brothers” at that Boston convention: Never in the field of human conflict was so much made of so few by so many.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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