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.
Posted on 11/01/2006 6:13:24 AM PST by Uncledave
Kerryism [Victor Davis Hanson]
Kerry surely must be one of the saddest Democratic liabilities around. Some afterthoughts about his latest gaffe, which is one of those rare glimpses into an entire troubled ideology:
(1) 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. Today, Democrats must be wondering why they have embraced an overrated empty suit, and ostracized a real talent like Joe Lieberman.
(2) How could Kerry possibly claim that he was thinking of the uneducated in the context of George Bush, who, after all, went to Harvard and Yale?
(3) Some of the brightest and most educated Americans are not only in the military, but veterans of Iraq. Two of the best educated minds I have met-Col. Bill Hix and Lt. Col. Chris Gibson, both Hoover Security Fellows-were both Iraqi veterans. What is striking about visiting Iraq is the wealth of talent there, from privates to generals. Without being gratuitously cruel, the problem of mediocrity is not in the ranks of the military, but on our university campuses, where half-educated professors and non-serious students killing time are ubiquitous. Personally, I'd wager the intelligence of a Marine Corps private any day over the average D.C. journalist. Every naval officer I met at the USNA, without exception, seemed brighter than John Kerry, whose "brilliance", after all, has managed to offend millions of voters on the eve of a pivotal election. If the Democrats lose, it will be almost painful to watch the recriminations against Kerry fly.
(4) This is not the first, but third, time he has denigrated soldiers in the middle of a war-and there is a systematic theme: John Kerry's assumed superior morality allows him to pass judgment from on high about supposedly lesser folk who become tools of a suspect military: thus we go from limb-loppers and Genghis' hordes to terrorists to dead-beats. The only constant is that the haughtiness is always delivered in the same sanctimonious, self-righteous, and patronizing tone.
(5) The mea culpa that Democrats are blaming the war and not the warriors is laughable after Sens. Durbin, Kennedy, and Kerry have collectively compared American soldiers to Nazis, Pol Pot's killers, Stalinists, terrorists, and Baathists.
(6) 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.
(7) His pathetic clarification, as he blamed everyone from Tony Snow to Rush Limbaugh, displayed the same Al Gore derangement syndrome, and thus raises a larger question: what is it about George Bush that seems to reduce once sober and experienced liberal pros to infantile ranting?
(8) 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, and, by the same token, can't think of any opposition that on the eve of elections seems to have an almost pathological death wish.
The Democrats should use this occasion to have an autopsy of Kerryism, or this strange new tony liberalism, that has turned noblisse oblige on its head. It used to be that millionaire FDRs and JFKs felt sympathy for those of the lower classes and wished to ensure that the hoi polloi had some shot at the American dream. But today's elite liberals-a Howard Dean, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, George Soros, Ted Turner-love the high life and playact at being leftists simply because they are already insulated from the effects of their own nostrums that always come at someone poorer's expense while providing them some sort of psychological relief from guilt. Poor Harry Truman must be turning over in his grave-from bourbon, cigars, and poker to wind-surfing and L.L. Bean costume of the day says it all. Posted at 8:35 AM
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.
RIGHT ON! You can add "mainstream media journalist" to that comment also.
Ooooohhh! And the car goes into the crowd!
snicker!
bttt
""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.
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.
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..
"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.
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
John Kerry: The "charles emerson winchester" of vietnam.
Supporting the troops without supportign their mission is like supporting songwriters while hating music.
Love it!! What a great quote.
Karl Rove's mind control machine.
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.
“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.”
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...
Yeah, but Bush is a moron.
You can just TELL.
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...
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