[Congressman Billybob]

Can this guy write, or what? Another home run over the leftfield fence and deep into the night.

John / Billybob

[BenLurkin]

There was an old joke back in the Cold War:

Proud American to Russian guy: ''In my country every one of us has the right to criticize our president.''

Russian guy: ''Same here. In my country every one of us has the right to criticize your president.''

That seems to be the way John Kerry likes it. Americans should be free to call Bush a moron, a liar, a fraud, a deserter, an agent of the House of Saud, a mass murderer, a mass rapist (according to the speaker at a National Organization for Women rally last week) and the new Hitler (according to just about everyone).

But how dare anyone be so impertinent as to insult John Kerry!

[Tom D.]

Exactly correct.

First, Steyn's ridicule cuts his subject to shreds:

"No one has the right to insult Kerry, except possibly Teresa, and only on the day she gives him his allowance. . . . "

And then he wraps those shreds in a blanket of contempt:

"If you want passivity and wallowing in victim culture, the Dems will do. If you want to win this thing, Bush is the only guy running."

[tiki]

The whole thing was great but that last paragraph nailed it.