Swiftboating as hate term

Washington Times ^ | June 2, 2006 | R. Emmett Tyrrell

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As we watch the left of the Democratic Party press its case to return to the top of the heap in American politics, or at least evade the fate of the Dodo, we have ever more evidence validating an insight on which I stake my reputation as a political seer. To wit: partisan politics more often falls under the professional expertise of the psychiatrist than that of the political scientist. A learned shrink can often tell us more about a political issue than any other professional, not excluding a swami or a voodoo priest.

Consider the ongoing controversy over Sen. Jean-Francois Kerry's military service in the faraway Vietnam War. You doubt the controversy is ongoing? Just last Sunday a Page One story in the New York Times reported that some of Mr. Kerry's supporters during his ill-fated 2004 presidential campaign are endeavoring to prove him a war hero with an unblemished record of heroism. Their targets are the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. These Swifties, as they are called, are the Vietnam vets who claimed that when they served with Mr. Kerry they found him to be a self-aggrandizing, self-indulgent showoff. All insist he exaggerated his feats of heroism, and some testify he lied about his wounds and heroics. Many American voters were persuaded.

Why is this debate being launched? Any innocent observer who watched the showboating senator from Massachusetts bungle his 2004 presidential campaign must know he is today a self-aggrandizing, self-indulgent showoff. Why would he not have been one as a youth, back in the late 1960s when he brought camera equipment into the jungles to film himself at war? After an early exit from military service, he proceeded to follow the fashion of the times and oppose the war, appearing before a Senate committee in 1971 to

[TET1968]

During the election campaign, I was finishing up a Home Theater /game room that included a rather extensive collection of movie posters.
After hanging a large black and white photo/poster of Janet Lee screaming in the shower on the wall next to the entrance of the guest bathroom, I added a banner I received from a freeper event in D.C.
It was red with white lettering......"FLUSH THE JOHNS" !!

[maica]

All this [going after the Swifties] sounds like political harassment to me, but as the shrinks are wont to say, "If it is true for you, it is true for you." For a certitude, left wing Democrats believe whatever they believe is true.

They lie to themselves. That is why they feel no shame when they perpetuate lies on national or local media interviews. That is why pointing out to them that they are speaking lies has zero effect on their brain's ability to process information.

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Well, whenever a woman dies due to a man's selfishness I say she's been "Kennedy-ed."

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[ Swiftboating as hate term ]

It's good to know who hates you, and it's good to be hated by the right people - Johnny Cash

[lancer]

Oderint, dum metuant. Accius

I'm no Latin scholar, but I think this phrase belongs to Caligula.

[Radix]

Swiftboating = hate

War = Peace

Freedom = Slavery

Kerry is now, and always has been a liar and a hypocrite.

Why should he be different than all of the other democrats?

[magslinger]

I'm no Latin scholar either, but I got it from a book of quotes attributing it to Lucius Accius. Did a search and found this.

[lancer]

Thank you; I'm always learning something on FR!