Kerryism (Victor Davis Hanson comments brilliantly on Kerry flap)

Corner ^ | 11/1/2006 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Thoro]

Kerry looks like an idiot on a snowboard. A tall, lanky 60's something man that looks like he is on a skateboard. Not a manly image IMO. Don't be so sensitive, it's just my opinion. I think he looks like an idiot riding a bike, windsurfing, and catching a football too.

It's not that he looks like an idiot. It's that he looks completely unnatural making the entire image(be it football, windsurfing, snowboarding) look completely fabricated for a photo-op rather than looking like someone who genuinely enjoys those hobbies.

[Peach]

:-)

[Peach]

ROFL!

[expatpat]

What role did Jim Webb have in cleansing Kerry's phony war record?

VERY GOOD POINT! Didn't someone fake another SECNAV's name on the paperwork? However, it was more likely done during the Carter administration, I think.

[Valin]

Or a person could call and ask for their Senator. Ask them to comment on what Kerry said.

[don-o]

I do not get Hanson in my local paper.

What is a paper?

[Tolik]

[txradioguy]

Mr. kerry let me make this as plain as I can to you. I have a semester to go to get my degree. Everyone else in my office has their four year degrees. I serve because these guys stepped up and served before me. I owe it to them.

[The_Reader_David]

Doesn't matter to them. They still think Yale and Harvard should have turned him into one of them, or a copy of his dad at 'worst' (from their POV).

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[GOPJ]

How could John Kerry, born into privilege, and then marrying and divorcing and marrying out of and back into greater inherited wealth, lecture anyone at a city college about the ingredients for success in America? If he were to give personal advice about making it, it would have to be to marry rich women. Nothing he has accomplished as a senator or candidate reveals either much natural intelligence or singular education.

LOL

[Natural Law]

It will probably be March before the House and Senate rosters are set and leadership is elected. The DEMs are going to drag this election through the courts like never before. This is the real reason for the inaccurate polling data pushed by the MSM. They are setting an expectation in the public's mind that they will "justly pursue through the courts". Tighten up your chin straps, its gonna get rough.

[lonevoice]

complete with appeals to God in his speeches, made worse because in unprepared remarks, he makes it clear they are sincere.

Very insightful post. I particularly agree with the above sentence. The President's unscripted sincerity and integrity is unmistakable.

[BrynS728]

Kerry needs to go to Iraq and spend time with these allegedly uneducated troops and contractors. But of course he'd find no welcome, and probably not even an open cot in the whole of the theatre.

He DID go to Iraq at some point. A friend (a blackhawk pilot) who returned last year from a year's tour told of how his group was in charge of ferrying Kerry around and how they absolutely loathed every minute of it. He said they were treated like his "house boys" and made to wait on him. He was disliked prior to his visit, and his haughty demeanor and attitude only served confirm their perceptions.

Kerry has no interest in seeing what these men and women are doing, or what they are all about. His only concern is his next photo op, and self promotion.

[Defiant]

what is it about George Bush that seems to reduce once sober and experienced liberal pros to infantile ranting?

Easy. He's a conservative who talks with a southern drawl. It's a visceral reaction from liberals. They LOVE a southern liberal--"Look, we educated one of those southern apes, and now he agrees with us!". They look at a Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter and laugh at how they fooled the yokels into voting for him just because he has a drawl and comes from south of the Mason-Dixon line. They know he is one of "them", and if that's what it takes to get the White House, they are ok with it.

But, tell them that their President, leader of the executive branch and commander in chief of the military is a southerner who talks like a Southerner, and thinks like most southerners do (i.e., is genuinely religious, patriotic and likes to follow the law as written), that makes them feel like the civil war is still on and they are losing. They will not accept being governed by the south and its mores. It's that simple.

Reagan, from Illinois and California, of midwestern and Irish stock, did not evoke the visceral hatred. They liked him in their hearts, even as they hated his wins over them and denigrated his policies.

It's primeval. It's subconscious. It's there for 2 more years. I say we send another southernor to the White House in '08, just to drive them even battier.

[Defiant]

You are right, but he moved to Texas as a youngster. His dad was in the oil business, made money in the 40's and '50s, and had enough roots there to be a Texas congressman beginning in the '60s. Bush has always come across to me as a Texan with a bit of Yankee still in him.

[Taxman]

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people, could it?

[angkor]

"It's that he looks completely unnatural making the entire image(be it football, windsurfing, snowboarding) look completely fabricated for a photo-op"

My interpretation is that he has the time (after 20 years in the Senate) to learn rather complex sports such as windsurfing, sailing, mountain biking, snowboarding, and the rest.

He is what you might call "a man of leisure."

[Chena]

Standing ovation for Mr. Hanson! Thanks for posting this, Uncledave. BTTT!

[Chena]

KERRYTHINK: To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again; and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety; consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become conscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word "Kerrythink" involved the use of Kerrythink.

BRAVO!! Wow, this is excellent!