Dems' Disdain For The Military (Michelle Malkin Hits Home Run Alert)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 11/01/2006 | Michelle Malkin

[goldstategop]

The Democrats' failed 2004 presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry, may have just sabotaged his party's highest hopes for the 2006 midterm elections. Karl Rove himself couldn't have engineered a better campaign reminder of the Democrats' utter lack of credibility when it comes to supporting, respecting and leading America's military.

Here is what Sen. Kerry told an audience of young people at a campaign event on the Pasadena City College campus on Monday held for losing California Democrat gubernatorial challenger Phil Angelides:

"You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

And this man aspired to be our nation's 21st-century commander in chief with that Neanderthal 1960s attitude? Both a local NBC news affiliate reporter and a Pasadena Star-News reporter mentioned Kerry's statement without fully realizing the condescending slam against our, ahem, all-volunteer armed forces embedded in the remarks. The Star-News did observe that the derisive comment was met with "a mixture of laughter and gasps." But it wasn't until after KFI-AM Los Angeles radio show host John Ziegler posted the audio on the Internet and a YouTube user posted video of the event that a firestorm broke out on the airwaves and across the right side of the blogosphere.

America has the best-trained, most professional, most well-educated military in the world. But the moonbats want only to hear the myths of the soldier-as-victim or the soldier-as-brutalizer or soldier-as-indentured servant. Never mind that for every two volunteer recruits coming from the poorest neighborhoods, there are three recruits coming from the richest neighborhoods, as the Heritage Foundation recently reported. Never mind that 99.9 percent of the enlisted force have at least a high school education. Never mind that 49.2 percent of officers have advanced or professional degrees; 39.4 percent have master's degrees; 8.5 percent have professional degrees; and 1.3 percent have doctorate degrees.

Kerry's response to the backlash from military families around the globe? An adviser admitted to the National Journal that his boss's botched warning to students was "mangled." But a Kerry press release instead attacked Rush Limbaugh, White House spokesman Tony Snow and "assorted right-wing nut-jobs" (present!) for the words that came out of his mouth and his mouth alone. The Associated Press water-carrier for Kerry and the Dems, left-wing reporter Jennifer Loven, dutifully recycled the Democrat line that Kerry was really targeting President Bush, not the lazy, uneducated troops "stuck in Iraq."

Nonsense. The intent was clear enough for at least some in the audience to "gasp," as the local reporter on the scene described.

This is no isolated case of Democrat incompetence and insensitivity toward the military. Kerry's party is the party of Dick Durbin, who likened American interrogators and Gitmo military staff to Nazis, Soviet gulag operators and genocidal maniac Pol Pot.

Kerry's party is the party of Patty Murray, who praised Osama bin Laden's charity work with nary a nod to our men and women in uniform who have sailed and flown to the most far-flung regions of the world on reconstruction and humanitarian missions. Kerry's party is the party that approved of him tarring American troops as terrorizers in Iraq last year.

And Kerry's party is the party whose national party website couldn't even find an American soldier to illustrate a page dedicated to "Veterans and Military Families." Until a military reader of my blog called attention to it, the DNC site erroneously featured a photo of a Canadian soldier named "Abdul" in its attempt to show support for American troops.

Can you trust a party with such entrenched disdain and contempt for the military to use that power well and wisely at a time of war? America made a choice in 2004. Two years later, the Democrats have said and done nothing to earn the nation's endorsement now.

[ScubieNuc]

"NO ONE IS BUYING THEIR TRIPE!"

Don't forget about the campuses filled with eager liberal wanna-be's. As long as conservative America doesn't sit at home as a protest, we should do alright. The sad thing is that it isn't necessarily the Democrats that will defeat us, it will be our own who have been numbed into thinking only the worst of the Republicans.

[metesky]

The intent was clear enough for at least some in the audience to "gasp," as the local reporter on the scene described.

A caller to Howie Carr's radio show yesterday hit the nail on the head: The gasp was because sKerry had let the cat out of the bag on the Dem's real attitude towards the military.

[Terabitten]

Thanks. That's pretty obviously not a US uniform - obvious at least to anyone who's ever actually SEEN a US uniform.

[eeriegeno]

John Kerry is the best example of today's democrat in the current congress!

First, he arrogantly belittled our troops in Iraq by running his mouth before he put his mind in gear!

Second, after being told what he said, he maliciously went on the attack of the 'stuffed suits' and 'doughy commentators', who pointed out his words, blaming them for the lack of synopse connections between his own brain and mouth.

Third, he lied when he said that the words were a botched joke about the president and the Iraq war (a war, BTW, that he voted for).

Fourth, as he held a press conference to explain his words, he became obnoxious and condecending to all Americans.

Fifth, hardly any (if any) democrats have called for him to apologize. They seem to be happy with him being put in the closet until after election day!

Kerry, and others like him in the democrat party, is a good reason to pull the 'R' lever next Tuesday......

[GailA]

Kerry's not the only DemoRAT that thinks ill of the fine men and women of our Military. Harold Ford, JR thinks they are OIL COPS! BTW his only support for energy is ethenol..his envior votes tend toward the green agenda.

Project Vote Smart

2001 Representative Ford supported the interests of the American Coalition for Ethanol 100 percent in 2001.

[Shery]

Go, Michelle!

[alwaysconservative]

Great article, thanks for posting it!

[tom h]

"Now that is an interesting idea, worth following up with some precision. I wonder if there is a relationship between GOP advance and MSM decline--and I'm not talking exclusively about newspapers, since the Internet has cut into hard-copy media across the board. Could one do a comparative study of, say, rise or fall of NYT circulation or CNN viewership against the rise or fall of the number of registered Republicans or self-identified conservatives over the same time period? Would such a comparison be meaningful? Would the two have a relationship?"

I don't think so. Remember that the Reagan Revolution happened 20 years ago when the MSM had 100% total, lockstep grip on all media.

However, I believe that now, as online and alternative news sources continue to rise, you will find not more Republicans but more Democrats become centrist. Because the Dems will not let their party fall into 30% obscurity. They will stay at 45-50% by moving to the center. And such would be very significant.

[Joe Boucher]

You are very much correct in that i have had loads of commercials for this candidate and that one.
The Dems most often fail to announce they are in fact dems. While the Repubs inevitably announce their affiliation.
It is no wonder that the dems fail to announce they are dems, cause otherwise unless running in a liberal stupid area such as West Palm Beach they would have little chance if folks knew their true affiliation.
Make Bin Laden a happy man, elect a democrat this election.

[Sweet Hour of Prayer]

I'm sure Hillary is watching and smiling as Kerry implodes. She wants to be recruited... by the DNC, to save them. That way she can keep claiming she cares about being a senator from NY and just got called to run for the presidency by the masses.

Kerry is a psuedo-intellectual snob, with absolutely no charm.

[nutmeg]

bookmark