The Kerry Brigade

the American Spectator ^ | 6/29/2006 | R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

[bitt]

WASHINGTON -- The comic career of Senator Jean-Francois Kerry is picking up steam, or gas, as the case may be. This inveterate windbag is, according to the New York Times, reopening the Swift Boat controversy of 2004 that did such damage to his presidential prospects when hundreds of the Vietnam War veterans who served with him deflated his reckless boasts of military gloire. He has undertaken this quixotic mission claiming that he can repristinate his military record despite the Swifties' evidence against it. Then the delusory senator from Massachusetts seems to think he will be a shoo-in for the presidency in 2008.

Well, I for one shall delight in reviewing the Swifties' corpus delicti once again. There are his Purple Hearts that his officers deny authorizing. There are the missing medical records needed to substantiate his decorations. There are the questions the Swifties raised about his honorable discharge, a mysterious discharge not issued until several years after he was out of the Navy and then only issued by President Jimmy Carter in the midst of his amnesty program for draft dodgers. And there is all the controversy about young Kerry's dealings with the North Vietnamese in Paris while the war was going on and he was still in the service. Doubtless there are more indelicacies to be examined. Frankly I doubt the American electorate will gain any higher opinion of a presidential candidate who in 1971 appeared before Congress to claim that American soldiers "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads" and otherwise mistreated the Vietnamese.

Kerry's statement is long and lurid, and the Swifties gladly reproduced a tape of it during the 2004 election. Now these veterans are being harassed by the senator's supporters with crank calls in the night and venomous postings on the liberal website HuffingtonPost.com.....

[bitt]

"Well, I for one shall delight in reviewing the Swifties' corpus delicti once again"

Delicious.

[nopardons]

I'm making the popcorn for this sideshow...want some? :-)

[bitt]

not much new, but nicely said ping...

Kerry is trying to kick out the jams.....

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Yes, indeed- John Kerry thinks it's 1971 all over again. Dec 04 '05, on "Face the Nation"
John Kerry once again slams American troops- Check it out-

"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the-of-the historical customs, religious customs."

Click Here for the transcript for "Face the Nation"

You will find this statement at the bottom of page 4 and the top of page 5.

[TASMANIANRED]

Swifties need to sue Huffington. She has a bundle.

[no dems]

I'm thinking there is going to be a real knock-down-drag-out fight over the nomination in '08 between the Clintonistas and the Kerry/Kennedy/Dean wing of the DemocRAT Party. Get ready for a real blood bath.

[bitt]

while we're waiting for him to get out of make-up, sign the 180 and reveal his secret plan to end the Iraq war, here's some great photoshop pics...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1656168/posts

[John Lenin]

“One day he’s saying that we were shooting civilians, cutting off their ears, cutting off their heads, throwing away his medals or his ribbons,” Dole said. “The next day he’s standing there, ‘I want to be president because I’m a Vietnam veteran. “Maybe he should apologize to all the other 2.5 million veterans who served. He wasn’t the only one in Vietnam,” said Dole, whose World War II wounds left him without the use of his right arm.
-- Associated Press (Aug. 22, 2004)

[nopardons]

Poor Kerry, he's straight jacket material; certifiable!

[sageb1]

Even using the term "brigade" in reference to Kerry makes me ill.

[Minus_The_Bear]

I think you're right. Dean may not be far off with his "return to the 60s" comment. Personally, I'm hoping for a 68' style Dem convention.

[nopardons]

btttt

[nopardons]

think that you're correct about the bloodbath. Whether Hillary runs, is questionable; however, should she not, she WILL have a "stand-in".

[Suzy Quzy]

BRING IT ON!!!

[devolve]

[nopardons]

LOL...many thanks for the link. :-)

[Darkwolf377]

If Kerry had a brain in that empty head of his he would realize that if he completely refuted all of the SWIFT vet charges, America would give a collective 'So what?'

We wouldn't suddenly rethink our opinion of him. We wouldn't give his 'positions' another look.

John, you lost because people don't like you. Deal with it.

[kcvl]

harassed by the senator's supporters with crank calls in the night

They should have their phones call forward to the police department. That will usually stop that. Or put a tracer on their phones & see the harassers in court.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

[Verginius Rufus]

Bill O'Reilly on Wednesday evening said his interview with Kerry is already on tape and will be shown on Thursday. Whether it will be worth watching is another question...but bound to be better than Colmes interviewing Osama Obama.