Posted on 09/26/2004 3:49:00 AM PDT by Mia T
WINDSURFER WATERLOO
why the surfboard--not the snowboard--is Kerry's Achilles' heel
THE HOT DEBATE OVER THE WINDSURFING AD [09/23 11:54 AM]
There is apparently much debate about the windsurfing ad over at the Corner. Here's the CNN summary of the charges and countercharges so far:
Underscoring the Bush attacks was a new television ad showing Kerry windsurfing to the strains of the "Blue Danube" waltz. A narrator reads a list of what the Bush campaign contends are the senator's vacillating positions on the Iraq war, education and Medicare.
Thought one: There's a quick and easy way that Kerry can stop the ads that are calling him a flip-flopper: Stop flip-flopping.
Thought two: If you don't want the Bush campaign to run ads featuring footage of John Kerry windsurfing, stop inviting television crews to record Kerry windsurfing.
Thought three: If the ad is so "juvenile and tasteless", why does the new Kerry ad not show the picture of John Kerry windsurfing? Could this be because some focus group somewhere concluded that windsurfing looks like a pastime of the idle rich?
Your humble correspondent wonders if the Blue Danube waltz was the wrong music for the commercial. Maybe Doris Day/Mari Wilson/Lila Downs "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps":
You only tell me 'Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.'
UPDATE: About a billion Kerry Spot readers point out that the Kerry campaign is complaining about a lack of seriousness right after their man has done interviews with Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Dr. Phil, and Regis.
Kerry Spot
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Windsurfing in the Persian Gulf
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA
Similarly, Kerry's statements about the Iraq War hint at cognitive and ethical, if not corporeal, absence; they tell us more about John Kerry than simply what his Iraq-War politics may be.
WINDSUCKER
Windsurfing, like war, transcends the particular in its revelations about John Kerry. Although windsurfing is delicious metaphor--witness the recent Bush-Cheney ad--windsurfing in its most literal, technical sense is what best exposes Kerry for what he is--a wussy, opportunistic fraud.
RIGGED
Kerry's gear is the dead giveaway.
Kerry sails on what boardheads call "light air,"--one just cannot escape the metaphors here-- i.e., a gigantic sail estimated at 11 square meters, and a humongous board providing redundant flotation.
According to expert windsurfer, Paul Kotik:
A windsurfer friend of mine, Rod, adds this observation, "Long boards typically have something called a centerboard or a daggerboard which acts as a fulcrum for turning large boards like [Kerry's]. Daggerboards are for total weenies."
Visible in Kerry's Nantucket windsurfing photo-op video is what appears to be evidence of a daggerboard--the knob on top of the board that controls dagger position.
Rod continues, "Up-hauling is another weenie windsurf situation. If the wind is so light that you stand on top of the board and pull the mast up out of the water to begin sailing, there is very little wind. Water starting is... what keeps most people out of the experienced ranks... It is the only way to start in high wind/deep water conditions."
Conversely, according to Rod, some wind is required in a water start. "In a water start, you are not standing on anything, just floating in deep water. You 'fly' the sail, controlling it just inches above the your head and the water, moving your feet onto the board; the sailor pops the sail up filling it with wind, which pulls you up onto the board in one maneuver and propels the board forward."
Kerry's gigantic sail suggests a deliberate wind-avoidance strategy and, hence, an up-hauling, not water-starting, boarding technique scenario. Indeed, given Kerry's reflexive avoidance of high wind/deep water conditions over the years, weenie up-hauling is the only credible scenario.
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election update!
JOHN KERRY IS UNFIT~THE SERIES
Windsurfing in the Persian Gulf
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YOO-HOO DAN RATHER!
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KERRY-EDWARDS TRIES TO SHUT DOWN DEBATE
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PART 1: advice from bill
Kerry's new W offensive
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DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER
EXPLOITING MAX CLELAND
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(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)
Kerry is UNFIT #20: THUMBSUCKER SERIES
PREEMPTION-(the whole ball of wax)
CONTEMPLATING KERRY'S "GUT"
A PRESIDENT KERRY MAY BE ABHORRENT
...BUT IS IT EVEN CONSTITUTIONAL?
getting kerry's goat
john kerry lacks presidential temperament
Two Psychologists on Kerry: Dangerous on National Security
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THE COMPLEAT JOHN KERRY
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA
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THE MAN FROM HOPE: been there, done that
"Hope is on the way!" (the scoop)
THE TERRORISTS' USEFUL IDIOTS
all the usual suspects
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JOHN KERRY IS UNFIT SERIES: 8/10/04 UPDATE!
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#1-making the tough choices in a post-9/11 world
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UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
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UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
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sanitizing evil
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USEFUL IDIOTS
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The Cycle of Violence:
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deconstructing clinton "just because I could"
vetting missus clinton...
The Parallel Universe of Jamie Gorelick
nepotism + tokenism = a nancy pelosi
(or a hillary clinton)
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Kerry Lacks Moral Authority to Condemn Content
"CRY BUSH" + Iraqi-Prisoner "Abuse"
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DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYING EARS (The Perjurer Returns)
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The Mary Jo White Memo:
Documentation of clintons' and Gorelick's willful, seditious malfeasance
What is the REAL Reason for Gorelick's Wall?
giant sucking sound
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- Q ERTY6 utter failureBUMP
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"Sickened" by clinton's Failure to Protect America from Terrorism
- MUST-READ BOOK FOR DEMOCRATS:
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(Who in his right mind would ever want the clintons back in the Oval Office?)
- The Man Who Warned America
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- UDAY: "The end is near this time I think the Americans are serious, Bush is not like Clinton."
ping
ping
Kerry goes which ever way the wind blows. Even his hobby encompasses that.
You rock Mia. You're becoming an FR institution!.
Or, Peggy Lee's, "Is That All There Is".
Democrats dont get the joke. The Joke is John Kerry
IMO, all of J F'n K's little boy sports antics--snowboarding, windsurfing, dress-up biking, footballing-- is a good deal of why a lot of women aren't buying into his schtick. Contrasted w/ the dominant image of what Bush does when he has a little time off--working on the homeplace-- Kerry comes up as an irresponsible & spoiled little boy. I'm having a tough time conjuring up an image of little john-boy even running a Weedeater around one of Teresa's many mansions...
The Kerry campaign reacted angrily to the ad, charging that its "lighthearted" approach was inappropriate in the middle of a war.
Au contraire. (There they go again with their sloppy conflation schemes.) By conflating the two charges--judgment and patriotism-- John Kerry and the Left expose their guilty knowledge of same. And it doesn't matter whether it was done with Machiavellian calculation or out of simple naiveté. Seditious rhetoric and expressions of legitimate differences of opinion are not mutually exclusive constructs, David Gergen notwithstanding. But because the Left's wartime rhetoric about Bush is abusive, undermining, irrational, and ultimately empty, it can only be sedition. Mia T It is precisely President Bush's high regard and concern for the troops that require him to expose the danger that would be posed by a commander-in-chief kerry... Given the critical importance of the message, the ad was exactly the way to go. Humor will increase the audience, and the windsurfer metaphor is great shorthand (not only for Kerry's shifting positions, but also for his priorities, i.e., windsurfing in Nantucket vs. getting briefed on al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the United States. "Well, I haven't been briefed [about the new al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the United States] yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me; I just haven't had time." John Kerry
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Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel defended the ad, saying that "what's disturbing is John Kerry's various shifting positions on the war on Iraq." To be more precise (if somewhat less politic), what's killing our troops and emboldening the enemy--and what may kill Americans--is John Kerry, a self-serving, shifting, undermining and ultimately seditious big-league scold.
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Now there's a talented adman! I wish I could see this ad. I knew the minute I saw the photo of Kerry windsurfing off Martha's Vineyard that he'd made a huge political blunder. His campaign advisors must have lost it.
Kerry: "I love baseball. I love football. I love sports. French skiers."
Oh, yes---man of the people. When he's not windsurfing, he's snowboarding, mountain climbing, skiing, parasailing or tooling around town on his eight thousand dollar bicycle.
The Kerry campaign reacted angrily to the ad, charging that its "lighthearted" approach was inappropriate in the middle of a war.
Humor is a dangerous thing during a war.
God is that true........ and repulsive!
Excellent (three times!)
**IMO, all of J F'n K's little boy sports antics--snowboarding, windsurfing, dress-up biking, footballing-- is a good deal of why a lot of women aren't buying into his schtick. Contrasted w/ the dominant image of what Bush does when he has a little time off--working on the homeplace-- Kerry comes up as an irresponsible & spoiled little boy. I'm having a tough time conjuring up an image of little john-boy even running a Weedeater around one of Teresa's many mansions...**
Real woman want real men Kerry is not a real man and neither is Edwards I can't image what he does I am certain is nothing macho.
With Bush/Cheney you have 2 ranchers, fishermen and hunters they are past times not exclusively for men but normally associated with men and real men after all they do have their origins in bringing the food home for their woman. This is the image that Bush/Cheney give and women respond to that much more then men playing about on the water.
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