Posted on 09/11/2004 2:41:26 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
John Kerry is not only uncertain about where he stands; he's politically bipolar.
Hiring Bill Clinton's old staff to shore up his campaign won't work. Anyone who follows the news can tell you what's wrong with his campaign. It isn't the campaign staff -- it's the uncertainty of the candidate. Thus, we have the Kerry who says Iraq is the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time while having voted for it and still defends both propositions. Kerry claims heroism in Vietnam, after which he repented for a war filled with atrocities, some of which he himself committed. This isn't only wallowing in uncertainty -- Kerry shows evidence of a serious political bipolar problem. One cannot be both Sergeant York and Daniel Ellsberg at the same time. His only supporters are the old media (eastern newspapers and the three TV networks), determined to elect him despite his bipolarity.
But the zig-zags can't be hidden. His war stories triggered the counterattack by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -- and the Massachusetts senator's campaign collapsed. Consider: How can one use home movies to film himself as the gallant warrior and later say that Ho Chi Minh is the George Washington of Vietnam [according to Unfit for Command by John O'Neill, page 137]? How do you advocate troop redeployment on Aug. 1, 2004, and attack Bush for it on Aug. 18? How can he talk so warmly about a ''band of brothers'' in Vietnam and forget his 1971 testimony before the U.S. Senate about unspeakable atrocities being committed by Americans ''on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command''?
Paul Galanti was a POW in the Hanoi Hilton in 1971 when he was confronted by his harsh North Vietnam captors about the testimony and speeches Kerry was making in the United States in April of that year. Speaking of atrocities by U.S. soldiers, Kerry said: They had ''personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wire from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam.'' Says Galanti: ''They made a big deal about this guy who was a naval officer, talking about all those atrocities and crimes. They'd been for years saying, 'You're not prisoners of war, you're war criminals. You're never going home, we're going to try you after the war and you'll all be found guilty of war crimes.''
How would bipolar Kerry have handled the Cold War? President Ronald Reagan deployed U.S. missiles to counter Soviet demands for a bilateral nuclear freeze; Kerry supported a nuclear freeze. Reagan pushed the Strategic Defense Initiative, more popularly known as ''Star Wars,'' with Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva in 1985; Kerry opposed SDI. In September 1985, before Reagan met Gorbachev, Kerry was the star attraction in Geneva for those who urged peace at any price. In August 1986, two months before Reagan met Gorbachev at Reykjavik, Kerry fought to torpedo SDI, calling it ''a cancer.'' All during the buildup of defense that led Reagan to win the Cold War, Kerry was on the other side: voting against the B-1 bomber, the AH-64 Apache helicopter, the Patriot missile, the F-15, F-14A and F-14D jets, the AV-8B Harrier jet, the Aegis air-defense cruiser and the Trident missile system.
Nor is Kerry's bipolarity limited to foreign and defense policies. At many stops he receives rifles and shotguns, which he holds aloft to demonstrate his support of the Second Amendment: ''I'm not for [gun] registration. I've never been for gun registration,'' he said in Milwaukee on July 4, 2004, but earlier, on July 19, 1993, Kerry said ''I concur with Chief Justice Burger [that registering gun purchases doesn't violate the Constitution].''
It's fitting that in the summer Kerry windsurfs, arcing his body this way and that, and in winter he snowboards, twisting this way and that. His inner confusion is finally coming to view thanks to talk radio, cable news and the Internet. George W. Bush spent $200 million on TV ads that didn't move his numbers. The Swift Boaters changed all with a modest initial $500,000 buy -- focusing on Kerry's bipolarity. For which they deserve our grateful praise.
Hallelujah! Great read, and it will make it all the harder for RATs to dig up dead voters come Nov. 2.
Well, thank you Thomas Roeser!
Now if you could explain how 40%+ still intend to vote for this Kretin, maybe I could understand. Are they bipolar, too?
Communist salute.
bttt
Another great find! Thanks.
Politically Bipolar...how apt a term for hanoi john.
John is goofy enough. But what I await with great anticipation is each time Mama T gets out of her straight jacket. She reminds me of a jack-in-the-box that suddenly pops and has to be quickly stuffed back in the box. I tell ya, she's a real hoot!
I don't know why I find this funny...
http://www.physics.wisc.edu/graduates/courses/623-f03/ds/74LS112.pdf
Bump!
This is a great article! Unfortunately, the people of MA will vote for Kerry in a landslide. It just makes no sense to me. One of the best things that happened during or just after the Republican convention is that the firefighters of NY endorsed President Bush. They know the truth.
Now, THAT'S good stuff.
BTTT
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