[PhiKapMom]

John "Botox" Kerry and his "I am a Vet" is wearing mighty thin along with that lowlife at DNC! All of a sudden Kerry keeps his dog tags with him for good luck! Give this person a break -- this is the same slilmeball that threw his or someone else's medals over the WH fence. BTW, a veteran can order medals he has lost!

This is one great reason to Reelect Bush-Cheney in Nov '04!

[finnman69]

I would like a response from the RNC to the RATS to be something like this.

"Rather than focusing on unsubstantiated and irresponsible rumors regarding President Bush's service in the National Guard 30 years ago, The Democrats should be more concerned with John Kerry's more recent AWOL record in the Senate."

[PhiKapMom]

Anyone on this forum that thinks that Kerry would be good for conservatives to teach us a lesson better stay out of the way of any of us that support our men and women in the National Guard, the Reserves, and in the Active Force.

If you would like to be added or removed from this Bush-Cheney ping list, please let me know!

PKM

[Cannoneer No. 4]

ping

[snippy_about_it]

bump for record keeping

[WarrenC]

A response to this from the folks at NRO:

ISN’T THIS INCREDIBLY NIXONIAN? [Rich Lowry] Here is Kerry on Bush and the Guard: “‘I’ve never made any judgments about any choice somebody made about avoiding the draft, about going to Canada, going to jail, being a conscientious objector, going into the National Guard.” You have to give Kerry Nixonian points for two things: 1) instead of just saying “I’m not going to talk about it,” he spins out a very purposeful sound bite about exactly the thing he says he’s not going to make an issue; 2) he not so subtly lumps Guard service in with every known dishonorable anti-war activity—including going to jail!

RE: INCREDIBLY NIXONIAN [John Derbyshire] Rich: That is the rhetorical figure known as "praeteritio." Arthur Quinn, in his 1982 book Figures of Speech, has this to say: "If I were to declare any figure inherently disreputable (which, of course, I will not), this would be the one. Neither will I mention that the only American president who repeatedly used the praeteritio was also the only one who had to resign. I will not mention it, despite its obvious relevance to our present discussion, because anything that might be interpreted as a political statement would be entirely inappropriate in a book like this."

[colorado tanker]

I saw Kerry say this in Fox News. My wife and I just turned to each other in amazement that Kerry would compare service in the Guard to running to Canada. I'm sure Rove has a tape of Kerry's disgraceful statement.

[funkywbr]

Those aren't dog tags, those are his balls on loan to him from his Rich Republican wife!~}

[plain talk]

I'm not worried about this. I think Rummy or the President should mention the National Guard when mentioning the men and women in uniform defnding our country. And specifically mention the NG folks over in Iraq. Kerry is playing his little associations game. Our side could deflect that by associating NG with soldiers and the war.

[rintense]

As posted before:

McAwful is one sorry f_ck if he thinks the National Guard isn't the military. One of my brothers, a proud member of the Oklahoma Nat'l. Guard, served in Gulf War I. My other brother, a member of the Michigan Nat'l Guard, just left for a stint in Bosnia as a UN Peacekeeper. So Terry McAwful can kiss my ass. My brothers combined have faced more real danger in their lives than Terry has seen driving through the streets of DC.

And John Kerry's remarks this weekend about how some 'joined the national guard' to avoid the Vietnam War should be played over, and over, and over again to every single soldier and American out there. It shows that liberals like John Kerry can turn serving your country into an elitist fraternity.

[bereanway]

Let Kerry and the DNC keep prating. They're well into the process of overplaying their hand and it's going to bite them big time. Kerry has a lot of baggage in this area that will be exploited as this is played out.

[KellyAdmirer]

The liberals are doing their best to get us fired up. Thanks, John and Terry! You may be adversaries, but at times you are useful idiots!

[FreeAtlanta]

John "Botox" Kerry

lol, I was watching the BBC newscast on PBS (I know, I might as well had been watching prada in the 1970's) when they commented about Kerry looking younger and youngers as the campaign goes on. I listened for the botox comment, but -surprise - it never came!

[Faith]

Senator Kerry continues to inflict gunshot wounds to his own foot.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Ping!

Time to don the asbestos suit again!!

[redhawk]

I'm in the Az Nat'l Guard and I've been to both gulf War I and Iraq. I can't believe how stupid these guys are in trying to make this comparison with so much of the Guard deployed to hostile fire zones today.

[goodnesswins]

THANK GOD for the NATIONAL GUARD.....with the way the DEMS DECIMATED the MILITARY during x42's reign....we can THANK THEM whenever we have to send National Guard units out of the US to protect US interests or FREEDOM in other parts of the world. Kerry and his ilk also CUT the budgets of those doing undercover work, which makes the military job that much more difficult. Kuck FERRY and his Merry Band of THIEVES.

[TC Rider]

I served in the PA NG from ''72-'78. We were never deployed for war, but did serve during the horrible floods of '72 and spent some cold Feb days on interstate overpasses during a union truck drivers strike. (The thugs were tossing cinder blocks through the windshields of non-union drivers.)

We trained for war with the USSR in Eastern Europe.

This issue really p!ssed me off during the '88 campaign when everyone in the media piled on Quayle for serving in the NG.

[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for the ping!

[BigSkyFreeper]

Kerry is an insult to the uniform, period. He lauds his military record, tosses his medals over a wall, votes against funding the fine brave men and women of our outstanding military in Iraq, and insults the Commander In Chief and the NG, yet he wants to be POTUS?

Bush is what amounts to Kerry's boss, and in the corporate world, Kerry would be out on his keister looking for a new job.

[Iris7]

First thing, I do not like Kerry. He was Jane Fonda's butt boy, and still is. He marries harridans for their money. His Bronze Star does not appear to me to be earned from what I read about the incident. The Big Boys who support him are the worst there are.

The National Guard and Reserve are busy in Iraq and Afganistan, though the risk there is very low compared to Viet Nam (my war), they are away from their families, etc. During WW2 the Guard 32nd Infantry Division was put into the most brutal possible combat in New Guinea long before any regulars were committed. Those boys really earned their pay.

During the Viet Nam war, draft dodging, going to Canada, faking psychosis, homosexuality, enrolling in ROTC and then pulling out, like Clinton did, were all considered about the same thing to the Viet Nam guys. And so was the Guard and Reserve. I do not remember anyone in the Guard or Reserve who was not defensive over being a dodger. That is just the way things were.

The Guard and Reserve were impossible to get into after 1966 unless you had truly heavy political clout, since all the connected dodgers wanted to get in all at once. Again, this is just the way things were.

This point of view may be offensive to some, but that does not change anything, since what happened is what happened, and liking or disliking what happened makes no difference. I don't like what happened either.