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Kerryism (Victor Davis Hanson comments brilliantly on Kerry flap)
Corner ^ | 11/1/2006 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/01/2006 6:13:24 AM PST by Uncledave

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To: Pride in the USA

Actually, I think the answer is fairly simple: they regard GWB (a Yale and Harvard grad) as a traitor to their class. Not only didn't he become a liberal, he didn't become a tame Rockefeller Republican and stay in the northeast with an affected patrician accent. No, he went off, adopted Texas as his home, got a Texas accent, and became something approximating a conservative Republican, complete with appeals to God in his speeches, made worse because in unprepared remarks, he makes it clear they are sincere.

W rejected their culture, so even his unconservative embrace of entitlement programs and immigration amnesty doesn't win him any good will from them.


61 posted on 11/01/2006 7:03:52 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Rummyfan

This was the only line I disagreed with in the entire article. It will be painful for the Democrats, but not for the rest of us observers. Nope, it will be very entertaining to watch these worms twist, as Nixon said, slowly in the wind.


62 posted on 11/01/2006 7:03:54 AM PST by 3AngelaD
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To: Let's Roll
The man is a loser and he knows he's a loser.

Agree. During their long tenure most senators manage to be associated with some "signature" legislation or other major legislative accomplishments. This becomes their legacy. Not so with loser Kerry. He stands for nothing and has accomplished nothing. The man is truely an empty suit, and deep down he knows it.

63 posted on 11/01/2006 7:06:04 AM PST by Starboard
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To: kalee

It is bad enough that he is a successful gigolo, but intolerable that he is a pompous one.


64 posted on 11/01/2006 7:06:29 AM PST by 3AngelaD
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To: Tolik
Thanks for the ping. Sooo right. I saw a little VDH on the history channel last night about Alexander the Great.
65 posted on 11/01/2006 7:09:09 AM PST by AmericaUnite
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To: The_Reader_David

W was born in Texas and lived there until being sent east to prep when he was a teen. He comes by the accent -- and the values -- as a birthright. Texas was and is his home. Others should be so lucky.


66 posted on 11/01/2006 7:09:42 AM PST by 3AngelaD
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To: Uncledave

The "Algore derangement syndrome." This disease is spreading.


67 posted on 11/01/2006 7:10:27 AM PST by Malesherbes
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
. . . they've tried 2/3 variations now and are looking for one that will stick . . .

Not a principled bone in their bodies, which in turn is reflected in their policies: abortion on demand, weak defense, tax and waste.

68 posted on 11/01/2006 7:12:07 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Uncledave

"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?"

And Bush having a higher G.P.A. than Kerry.

"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."

Hanson Homers!


69 posted on 11/01/2006 7:12:31 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: Rummyfan

Until corrected, I'm calling the whole episode Kerrygate.


70 posted on 11/01/2006 7:14:01 AM PST by mwl1
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To: Uncledave

Great post. Thanks for posting.

For those who have not seen nor heard yesterday's Kerrism, the link below takes us to the Fox News Video were Kerry imitated Chavez at the UN in this vile non apology.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1729378/posts

Fox News Clip of Kerry's non apology and Bush bashing
hotair.com ^ | 10/31/2006 |

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1729378/posts


71 posted on 11/01/2006 7:16:49 AM PST by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: Tolik; Kathy in Alaska; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; tomkow6; SouthernHawk; MoJo2001; HiJinx; ...
(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.

My second Canteen ping of the day.

Oh how I wish I were as articulate as VDH! (My respect for VDH is only topped by my loathing of Kerry and those of his ilk.)
72 posted on 11/01/2006 7:16:55 AM PST by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
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To: Fawnn

DUMB AND DUMBER

73 posted on 11/01/2006 7:18:07 AM PST by luvie (We didn’t lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
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To: Fawnn

Bump


74 posted on 11/01/2006 7:19:18 AM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: LUV W

75 posted on 11/01/2006 7:20:42 AM PST by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
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To: Fawnn

CNN just said dems are now calling for him to appologize. This isn't over yet Senator Kerry!!


76 posted on 11/01/2006 7:22:18 AM PST by tongue-tied (I got A's and ended up in Iraq. Kerry got D's and ended up a Senator. Coincidence?)
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To: Fawnn

~~snicker~~


78 posted on 11/01/2006 7:29:18 AM PST by luvie (We didn’t lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
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To: Uncledave
Hey, VDH, next time type "noblesse oblige."

You're still one of the best, so "Best wishes,"
HF

79 posted on 11/01/2006 7:31:43 AM PST by holden
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To: 3AngelaD
It is bad enough that he is a successful gigolo, but intolerable that he is a pompous one.

Very true... But he isn't even a good looking one. He really looks like a jacka$$. And thats insulting jacka$$es. I really don't understand the people of MASS. Why do they keep electing Kennedy & Kerry?
80 posted on 11/01/2006 7:32:28 AM PST by pandoraou812 ( barbaric with zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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