[goldstategop]

As Mark Steyn writes this morning, election time is always bad to announce an ill-considered quip. Especially the Nuancy Boy pronouncemrent from John Kerry about the U.S military's intelligence or lack of it. His quip is more of a statement on the Left's lack of comprehension about the vital role soldiers play in preserving America's freedoms both abroad and at home.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[IamConservative]

I can't imagine getting to the age of 60 and not knowing what Chili is. That type of existence does not seem much fun to me.

No Coney Dogs. No Skyline chili. No Texas flame thrower chili. No football tailgating. No deer camp. No late night tent evacuation.

I'm glad they like being snooty, gives the rest of us someone to loathe.

[Timeout]

...what [Kerry] said fits what too many upscale Dems believe: that America's soldiers are only there because they're too poor and too ill-educated to know any better. That's what they mean when they say "we support our troops." They support them as victims, as children, as potential welfare recipients, but they don't support them as warriors and they don't support the mission.

Stein is nearly perfect on these matters. But I'll quibble just a bit with this analysis.

"They support them as victims..." is overly broad. It should say "they support ONLY THE ONES they can portray as victims". Here are the "troops" Dems embrace:

---My recruiter lied to me.
---I only joined for the benefits...not to go to war. Waaaaa!
---I'll have to leave my 3 babies behind & ain't got no husband to take care of 'em.
---As a vet I have to drive 3 HOURS to the nearest VA facility!
---My drill sergeant was mean to me!

---And the worst: Horribly wounded. Better yet...dead.

On that last, note that the American people never responded to the Dems' and MSM's repeated demands to film flag-draped coffins returning to Dover. Patriots understood their motive: portray the fallen as victims, symbols of the folly of war. Any American over 40 understands that "support the troops" only came after Dems woke up with a dreadful hangover from their bacchanalian bender in the 70's (spitting on vets, portraying soldiers as baby killers). They had to rid themselves of the military-loathing label. So they adopted the "we support all victims" strategy.

The above list really could go on and on (and please feel free to add to it). What it will never include---what they do not "support"---is the Hoo-ah warrior who commits violence for their sake. They cannot comprehend the young man or woman who subjugates self to a larger calling.

Bottom line: They do not understand HONOR.

[IOWAfan]

has anyone ever gathered all the strange events relating to Nuance-Boy?

I heard one kinda like the Wendy's thing where they stopped for a photo op at a Wendy's bought something and threw it away once they were back on the bus - in favor of some other more "delicate" dish that I don't remember....

someone should start a thread, there's a million of them.

like the one on the ski trip...

how many times has he belowed "don't you know who I am?"

the question should really be, "should I care?"

what a twit.

[Stallone]

Steyn is the best political writer in the history of mankind.

Perfect seems too restrained a description.

[Solamente]

Reading Mark Steyn is like savoring a rare porterhouse steak.

[ripley]

"the senator needs you to move."

just like a school yard bully and his henchmen. (pretty-much sums up the whole democrat party; hell-bent on domination and confiscation.)

[hoosier_RW_conspirator]

What I'm longing to see is a post where someone with graphics talent has taken the Kerry-botched-football-reception picture and changed the ball to a Vonnage box. *haha*

[Leisler]

It's so great that Hillary and Rove got together to get Kerry to say what they wanted him to.

[syriacus]

Remember Kerry's 2004 comment that [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen

[Triggerhippie]

Come on folks. John Kerry is just your average ordinary guy...














If you're from Transylvania.

[Silly]

This one is a keeper. Thanks for the post. Bump for a later read.

[Rummyfan]

A vain thin-skinned condescending blueblood with no sense of his own ridiculousness

A perfect description of Kerry.....

...and "I was making a joke about how stupid Bush is but I'm the only condescending liberal in America too stupid to tell a Bush-is-stupid joke without blowing it" must rank as one of the all-time lame excuses....

Thank You Mark Steyn!

[kalee]

bttt Steyn, as usual, is a must read.

[353FMG]

A VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATS IS A VOTE FOR AL-QAEDA.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

In this tedious shell game, no matter how frantically the left shuffles the cups, you never find the one shriveled pea of The Military Intervention We're Willing To Support When it Matters.

......

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

And so they signed up with the weirdly incoherent narrative of John Kerry -- a celebrated anti-war activist suddenly "reporting for duty" as a war hero and claiming that, even though the war was a mistake and his comrades were murderers and rapists, his four months in the Mekong rank as the most epic chapter in the annals of the Republic.

..I am John Kerry....who served in Vietnam....reporting for duty

[Paul_B]

Bravo. Steyn at his level best.

p.

[bannie]

When I watched his gaffe, I felt that he was so proud of his little "joke" that he had to construct a situation in which to use it. It was as though he'd rehearsed it, and couldn't wait for us to all be awed by his witty dig at America's brave soldier-heroes.

[Maigrey]

New tagline, courtesy of m steyn.

[Chgogal]

What you need to know about the Democratic Party and U.S. Foreign Policy starting about, oh let's say, April 1971.

"President Jimmy Carter confined himself to one screwed-up helicopter mission in Iran; Bill Clinton bombed more countries in a little more than six months than the Zionist neocon warmonger Bush has in six years but, unless you happened to be in that Sudanese aspirin factory, it was as desultory and uncommitted as his sex life and characterized by the same inability to reach (in Ken Starr's word) "completion." As for John Kerry, since he first slandered the American military three decades ago, he's been wrong on every foreign policy question and voted against every significant American weapons system."