Kerryism (Victor Davis Hanson comments brilliantly on Kerry flap)

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

[Steel Wolf]

Points 1, 2 and 7 are magnificient. They're all good, but those three really hit center mass. VDH's withering analysis tears apart any of Kerry's weak defenses.

[JoyjoyfromNJ]

Personally, I'd wager the intelligence of a Marine Corps private any day over the average D.C. journalist.

RIGHT ON! You can add "mainstream media journalist" to that comment also.

[Roccus]

Ooooohhh! And the car goes into the crowd!

[bannie]

an overrated empty suit

snicker!

[sitetest]

bttt

[angkor]

""Personally, I'd wager the intelligence of a Marine Corps private any day over the average D.C. journalist.""

Gee, one of the reservists I worked with in Iraq was a college professor. "Uneducated"?

Another was a Marine Master Gunnery Sargeant and just barely over 40. "Uneducated"?

A retired Marine colonel was a principal in a startup company developing "non lethal" defensive weapons for police and military use. "Uneducated"?

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.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

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.

[johnny7]

“The problem is that Kerry is not just a senator, but the most recent presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, and thus in some sense, especially given the diminution of Howard Dean, the megaphone of the entire party.”

This gets to the crux of the biscuit... well thought out too.

What Kerry actually did... has not registered yet with the DNC/DBM. They are like Gene Hackman in that final scene in 'The Quick & the Dead'. The Dem's are still standing... but they're soon gonna' notice that .45 caliber hole in the center of their chest.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

notice that what kerry is supposed to have said has now changed again..he was supposed to mention bush by name..IMHO the dems went into panic mode and looked at what he said, then inserted, after the fact, what he SHOULD have said..they've tried 2/3 variations now and are looking for one that will stick..then they blame reps for looking at what he said and by osmosis or divine intervention, NOT understanding what he really meant..however, the first time the reps try to say what they THINK he said can be shoved into their faces by the dems saying, "well, that's NOT what he actually said"..

dems are pathetic creatures incapable of rational thought..emotion rules the day with them..

[angkor]

"He just can't help but express his hatred for our United States military, and it just came out of his mouth again."

It is clearly some kind of psychological disorder. Seriously.

[OESY]

We go to war with what a leading Democrat said, NOT what he wished he had said and NOT what he wanted to say.

Al Jazeera prints only his actual words to rally those intent on killing our troops.

[GatorGirl]

But, but, but....

It's was just a botched joke!!

I can tell you, my Naval Officer husband who is in possession of FOUR degrees was not amused!

GG

[camle]

John Kerry: The "charles emerson winchester" of vietnam.

Supporting the troops without supportign their mission is like supporting songwriters while hating music.

[wbill]

How could John Kerry...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.

Love it!! What a great quote.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

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

Karl Rove's mind control machine.

[kellynch]

Normally, I live for Schadenfreude, but I cannot bring myself to visit the DUmmies. However, if anyone else has had the courage to do so, please share their reactions with the rest of us.

[knuthom]

What Kerry should have said, based on his personal history:

“You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you find a rich woman (or two) to marry.”

[GeorgiaDawg32]

how can this man, who is incapable of putting together a sentence that reflects what he truly thinks, want to be president and negotiate with countries around the world..what would they think after a negotiating session where kerry comes out and says "well, I know what I said, but it's not what I meant..what I meant to say was...."...no one in the world would trust him, literally...

[Lazamataz]

And why is the supposedly lame Bush so careful in speech, and the self-acclaimed geniuses like a Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, or Howard Dean serially spouting ever more stupidities? For all the Democrats' criticism of George Bush, I can't think of a modern President who has so infrequently put his foot in his public mouth.

Yeah, but Bush is a moron.

You can just TELL.

[Triggerhippie]

This is almost enough to make me believe that John F'n Kerry is a GOP plant (like Ted Kennedy).

Has either one of those two done anything substantial for the democratic party? Ever?

I ask because they seem to be figures to rally against for us, motivating "the base" to vote GOP. Whenever things start to look bad for us you can count on one of those two to do, or say, something so stupid that GOP 'woes' are completely forgotten.

I think we should thank God that the democrats have useful (for us) idiots like those two...