Posted on 08/27/2004 2:53:04 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Friday, August 27, 2004
Swiftboat veterans expose something new
Posted: August 27, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Kevin McCullough
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Something struck me today that jolted my thinking on the whole swiftboat veterans issue. As I was reading the reports of John Kerry sending campaign staff to Crawford to ask President Bush to denounce the swiftboat ads, something just smacked me in the face.
Over most of the campaign year, John Kerry has not faced much adversity. From the media preordaining him as "the" candidate earlier in the year, to his sudden and swift winning of the nomination, to his further coronation experience at his nominating convention, things have pretty much gone his way.
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have exposed something that I think is far more damaging about Kerry than they realized at the time.
Vietnam blah, blah, blah you hear the two sides go at it and so it goes ...
But last Thursday, John Kerry gave the vets the legitimacy they were looking for by acknowledging them, beginning to call them names and claiming they were dishonest. This is where I believe the "Swiftees" have done us all a favor in exposing John Kerry.
They exposed him and his lack of leadership skills in how he handles a crisis.
And what we are beginning to see is ugly.
His party threatens to sue television stations carrying the ads. Then they shift to apply pressure to Regnery Publishers to recall their book "Unfit for Command." Then they go after bookstores which were selling it. Then they label all swiftboat vets liars and go on television to try to debate the guys. (And for what it's worth Kerry's surrogate John Hurley has looked absolutely pathetic.)
Then, out of desperation, Kerry begins trying to secretly arrange meetings with the swiftboat vets which they only expose him on. And when all of these attempts make no impact, he sends goons to Crawford, Texas, to protest outside Bush's private residence.
They were delivering a letter that sounded like a piglet which had finally been caught in the County Fair "pig grab" rather than a serious complaint in this political season.
"The crying, the whining, the moaning oh my."
And that's when it began to hit me like a ton of bricks.
John Kerry is so afraid of conflict, of criticism, of anyone who disagrees with him or points out his inaccuracies, he would never survive six months in face of the genuine problems he would have to deal with in the White House.
I can just see it. Every single time there is a negative press report out about him "President Kerry" would feel compelled to go on every single cable TV talk show to "denounce the smears."
Anybody remember how President Bush responded when groups spent $65 million dollars morphing him into Adolph Hitler?
So, I ask you to fill in the blank:
"From watching John Kerry handle the campaign crisis posed by the controversy of the swiftboat vets, __________ is what I have learned about John Kerry's leadership."
Knowing that the presidency is not something where one can survive long with ultra-thin skin, I want to know what voter's impressions are on how you believe John Kerry would react in face of a true crisis.
Listeners to my radio show seem to believe Kerry had a resemblance to a 3-year-old toddler who though he wanted to be the tough guy in the room was likely to be the first one to run for mommy's skirts should another kid look at him funny.
I believe that this is an outstanding analysis of exactly how he responds.
Remember Iowa Kerry is Mr. Bravado: "BRING IT ON!"
Remember Illinois Kerry is Mr. Stealth: "These guys are the biggest bunch of liars ..."
Remember Boston Kerry is Mr. Soldier: "Reporting for duty ..."
All of those occurred when his world was looking up no crisis no real challenge.
Remember last Thursday Kerry turns into Mr. Crybaby: "Tell them to stop picking on me ..."
All the debate about what happened in Vietnam aside, the Swift Boat Vets have exposed the fact that, in a crisis, Mr. "Bring it On" is really Lt. Clueless, Junior Grade.
And realizing what the mullahs in Iran or the dictator in North Korea wish to do to us, America does not need a child who plays victim "Reporting for duty."
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Ah, yes. John Kerry, the Master of the "Self Inflicted Wound". God, Help us.
More likely, Kerry the "Escape-Artist".
1. Escaped the Nam early.
2. Escaped from his first wife with a load o' cash.
3. Escaped his duties as LtGov of Tax-a-Chusettes, getting a whole bunch of nothing done.
4. Escaping his duties in the Senate covering 20+ years, missing a whopping 89% of the votes.
5. Escaped detection by Terezaaaaaah that he was nothing more than a money-hungry gigolo.
sKerry is freaking Houdini!
(Sorry Harry for the comparison)
Naricissitic Personality Disorder described!LOL
Or the U.N. has waiting for us, or the French [spit! ... spit!] wish for us, or the Germans feel for us, or the Russians hope for us, or the Palistinians dream for us, etc. etc..
Then they have the Oregon Bar go after one of the Swiftees.
I'd like to bring up another aspect of Kerry's candidacy that no one has touched upon: His prenup with Teresa.
Teresa was married to a staunch Republican - who was conservative. She acted as a conservative as well, according to interviews. After the death of her husband, she was working for the UN when she met the Dork from Mass. That place of work - for a woman who had just inherited nearly a billion dollars - seems oddly out of place.
She was smart enough to get a prenup with the Dork, but who knows what it says???? Is there some form of quid pro quo in that prenup where Teresa gets some sort of unofficial power should the Dork become president? Do we need another case of "we are the president" in the White House? Especially from someone who was not born in the US and may have external allegiances? Who knows who Teresa may be beholden to herself.
This question may sound like tinfoil, but then again, it may just be prudent. We can't afford to have the Dork in the White House and a lady from Mozambique actually running the show. No way. After all, she bought him - so he must be for sale, or at least for rent.
I wish that this prenup could be investigated - but like her 1040, it'll never see the light of day. (Unless it becomes an open question that they can't avoid.)
PING!
Our "younger" Freeper friends now refer to this as "jumping the shark." Us old people call it "screwing the pooch."
:-)
I'd call him:
Kerry the "Escapism-Artist"
I cannot imagine this guy in a job where he would actually have to show up and work day after day after day. It'd kill him.
;-)
I had to ask one of these young whippersnappers what "jumping the shark" meant......LOL.
heh!
True! Of course, the fantasy is, is that he works for this old Leatherneck and I show him what a full day is! Yeah, he'd be whining for Mother (half a word) Terezaaaah in a NY minute!
Martin has a campaign poster for Kerry that would be perfect for this thread!.
Time and tides conspired to produce a void in the Democratic party that he (and I would suspect, Terry-baby) thought would be easy to slip into.
I imagine he thought that Iraq would "bog down" and become unpopular (and it still might) and that his war record and anti-war record would be attractive to Viet Vets and their offspring that are now mostly voting age.
But the Boston-Aspen axis he travels in isn't flyover country.The grunts from 'Nam probably were used to hearing of him as "war hero" without much thought until the SBVs pounded home "4 months" when they all had to do 12 and the medals collection for what they did every day in country.
Now that the '71 Congressional testimony is being highlighted, the Veit Vet offsprings are being exposed to a guy that was selling their parents down the river (no pun intended)
Since he has no core beliefs nor solid accomplishments, I think he'll implode as the questioning gets pointed as the major media will implode as they too are questioned and scorned.
The one cloud on the horizon is that some Looney-Tune might decide it's time to punch Kerry's ticket and throw the whole process into chaos.
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I went to the signatures and sorry to say if it's not signed by a clinton it's hardly worth the paper it's not even printed on while it wasn't even printed So it's WORTH A LOT!!
Perfect!
http://www.minibite.com/oldies/humble.htm
Kerry's Song
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