Getting Sick, Tired of Kerry

The Washington Times ^ | March 31, 2004 | Tony Blankley

[quidnunc]

John Kerry's presidential candidacy has all the makings of a classic flop — in the modern side-splitting tradition of Thomas Dewey, Adlai Stevenson, George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. This is not a prediction — merely an assessment of some potentialities.

I am mindful that events in Iraq and elsewhere could leap up and bite the Bush candidacy hard on the backside. The hysteria about phantom lost jobscould grow, rather than recede. The nation is closelydivided between Republicans and Democrats. And, most valuably, the Democratic Party's carefully nurtured four-year Bush-hatred should yield strong turnout for its base in November.

And yet, John Kerry has impressive downside potential. Like Thomas Dewey in 1948, his deepest flaw as a candidate is his sheer unlikability. It was said of Dewey that you had to know him really well to dislike him. But his pompous, stilted style rang through even his public appearances.

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The second emerging liability is the matter of Sen. Kerry's health and vigor. Few people commented adversely when Mr. Kerry had his cancer operation last year. Most otherwise healthy men go on to fully active lives after such a successful operation. But some people began to notice when he took a week off to relax and "recharge his batteries" at his wife's ski lodge — just when the campaign was heating up and he had not yet recovered from his foolish foreign leaders claim. His staff had to explain that he gets verbally sloppy when he gets tired. (Of course, the presidency is a darned tiring job 365 days a year.)

Now comes the unrelated matter of an operation to repair a torn shoulder tendon, an injury that the Kerry campaign says he incurred while on a campaign bus in January. The post-operative period will again take him out of action for "three or four days." Of such episodes, impressions begin to form.

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[hole_n_one]

But his pompous, stilted style rang through even his public appearances

I fail to understand why the author felt it necessary to sugar coat his assessment of Lurch.

[GeronL]

Like Thomas Dewey in 1948, his deepest flaw as a candidate is his sheer unlikability.

Your right, he's way too easy on the guy. lol.

[azsportsterman]

I was sick and tired of Kerry when I left Massachusetts in 1972.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I don't wish to be mean about him but, I'm getting sick of him too.

I was telling someone the other day that November seems to be getting farther and farther away every day.

I've been watching a lot of the Cartoon Network lately.

[rogueleader]

On the issue of his health, I should like it if we could get a Republican doctor to examine one of John Kerry's stools. That would prove most interesting indeed.

(obscure Maturin reference)

[DeuceTraveler]

Samarai Jack, PowerPuff Girls, Adult Swim.... Cartoon network is the only worthwhile network.

[kylaka]

If the media suddenly decides to carry John Kerry's water, who knows what will happen? During past elections there was no counter balance. Now there is. The left's play book is getting old, and threadbare. Even the folks still on welfare understand that if they need to go get a job, there needs to be some businesses, with at least enough money, to write them a payceck, for what they did.

[hole_n_one]

TV Land has brought back Green Acres!

[skr]

When he speaks, he seems to ramble after he drones out the one or two sentences his staff writes for him.

[dc-zoo]

That's your Freeper assignent for this week rogueleader. To follow Kerry around until you can steal one of his stools. An animal of that size has to leave a trail of droppings along the way.

[PhilDragoo]

But what may become the enduring exemplar of the Kerry style was his spontaneous expletive on the ski slopes when his Secret Service guard bumped into him by accident (while guarding him): "I don't fall down. The S.O.B. knocked me over." To instinctively say that about the man who is sworn to put himself between Mr. Kerry and a bullet, paints a lasting and contemptible character portrait. Contrast that with what Ronald Reagan said shortly after he was shot: "Honey, I forgot to duck." It was at that moment that 60 percent of the American public fell permanently in love with the Gipper. As Ernest Hemmingway put it in another time, that is grace under pressure — and Mr. Kerry doesn't have it.

Regardless of political persuasion, all men despise Kerry--they just don't have Blankley's facility with the tongue.

Kerry is an insufferable ass, while George W. Bush has those traits we admire, humility with strength.

Despite the Goebbelsian-Leslie[Riefen]stahl inflation of Kerry's prospects, he's doomed--

--absent Hitlery das Butch delivering on her warning of a last-minute sudden surprise.

The one where she picks up the red phone and tells al Qaeda, "Ants climbing mountain tora bora tora."

[Psycho_Bunny]

I DON'T NEED NO INSTRUCTIONS TO KNOW HOW TO ROCK!!!!

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" by candidates who refuse to release all their medical records — as Mr. Kerry refuses. The limited, general, uncorroborated statements by his personal physician, Dr. Gerald J. Doyle of Boston, only keep the controversy on a slow simmer."
"The doctor said that "there was no evidence of metastatic disease" and that Mr. Kerry's heart function "was above average for a man his age."
" Is that really the best his helpful doctor could offer up? "

Tony Blankley gets it.
The " mainstream " media doesn't.Either because they are ignorant or in the tank for Kerry.
Kerry gets his orthopod to release a 9 paragraph letter, saying nice and vague things about Kerry's health.
And that's good enough for the MSM.
An orthopod shouldn't be making the final pronouncements on Kerry's cancer and his cardiac status.
Picture the frenzy if President Bush tried to do a Kerry and hide his medical history.
If Kerry wanted to dispel any doubts about his medical history, he would direct his internist, his oncologist, his cardiologist and his psychiatrist to release all his records.

[rogueleader]

LOL!

[oyez]

The Democrats have definitely hitched themselves to a lemon. I wonder if something could happen between now and August that could result in his withdrawal and replacement.

[Texasforever]

I've been watching a lot of the Cartoon Network lately.

LMAO now that was funny!

[stands2reason]

I was sick and tired of Kerry when I left Massachusetts in 1972.

Is it really that much of a sin to miss Howard Dean?

[FlyVet]

And yet, John Kerry has impressive downside potential.

Works for me.

[Lancey Howard]

Curiously, the more that people see of the snarling, humorless liberal cartoon, John Kerry, the more they appreciate a man of decency, honor, and integrity in the White House.

Bush in a massive landslide.