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
Great read! My mind feels good when I read things like this, makes my feet smile.
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My guess is the an all-consuming hate will eventually effect a person's sanity. Hate is a destructive emotion and unchecked hatred poisons the soul.
I'm an independent, although I do lean towards being politically conservative. I've voted for Bush twice and I genuinely like the man. I pray for him in my daily prayers. He's guiding our country through a tumultuous time and has the balls to stand up to the islamofascists! I still cannot understand why the leftists hate him so much, but it is effecting their judgement and they are showing their true colors.
During his intro to a brief Kerry phone-in interview this morning, Don Imus half begged, half ordered Kerry to "Stop it!", to stop speaking, to go home, ride a bike, anything, because (in Imus' own words), 'you're going to ruin it".
For the video clip, see:
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006248.htm
If he were to give personal advice about making it, it would have to be to marry rich women.
OUCH! But too true. lol
Agree. The man is a loser and he knows he's a loser. Migod if he ever became President, he would actually be responsible, have to accomplish things etc.
That slacking, empty suit management style was ok when Bubba was in the WH, but these are serious times and Kerry knows very well he couldn't handle it. More than thirty years in Congress and he accomplished nothing - there's just no there, there.
So he acts out these death wishes - remember the "space" suit - to avoid being put into a situation that would literally swamp him.
And if that sounds like sympathy, hardly, the man would get us all killed.
OOOOHHH!!
Your alliteration is magnificent, syntax is flawless and lift is impeccable. "When all about you...you must be a man, my son."
You know it just occured to me Dean has been awfully quiet lately. Come out come out where ever you are Deaniac, we need more nails for your coffin.
Last week on Larry King, while interviewing Donald Trump, King asked Donald the following: "Does the boy she (Ivanka Trump) will eventually marry in your eyes have to be successful? In other words, could Donald Trump accept your daughter falling in love with a cop?"
Clearly, Larry King doesn't think you're successful if you're a policeman. John Kerry doesn't think you're smart if you're in the military.
Gah. These people suck.
Don't forget Kerry has a VALET Man-Servant that makes him peanut butter sandwiches!!
Magnificent!
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Orwell understood.
Why? With all the crap up with which we have to put for all the months leading up to these things we deserve a few days of laughing at them crying in their chardonnay.
This has to be one of the most retarded pictures I have ever seen of a grown man. I can't even find the right words to express how moronic he looks. Kerry is dull, a phony, and a numb-skull.
How very true!
This should give Democrats some second thoughts when considering their current flirtation with Barak Obama. Dems have a habit of going with the 'slick & smooth' over the 'experienced & proven'.
Some of the smartest people I've had the privilege to work with were Naval Officers.
Kerry is a disgrace to the Navy.
And Bush did better than Kerry...
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