Posted on 11/03/2006 12:45:11 PM PST by meg88
Kerry's words do damage to Democrats
We must ask Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry the same question David Letterman asked Hugh Grant after Grant was arrested for soliciting a prostitute on a New York City street: "What the hell were you thinking?"
As most people know by now, Democrat Kerry, just a week before the crucial mid-term elections that could see his party take back control of the House of Representatives and, possibly, the Senate, made what can only be categorized as a massive blunder. Kerry's off-the-cuff remark has been interpreted as saying members of the military who served -- or are currently serving -- in Iraq are not particularly smart.
Kerry danced around the statement, claiming it was a bad joke gone worse, but in the last throes of an election cycle in which the Republicans were spinning into chaos, the Massachusetts senator gave them an opportunity to bring out that old saw about those wanting to get the military out of Iraq being anti-troops.
In the hours after Kerry's unbelievably idiotic statement, here in New Hampshire the Republican distraction machine was moving faster than the speed dial on a phone call-blocking program.
Republican incumbent 1st District Congressman Jeb Bradley issued a statement Wednesday calling for Kerry to apologize and calling on his Democratic opponent Carol Shea-Porter to join with him in calling for the apology.
Even Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Coburn is attempting to make political hay with Kerry's statement. He urged incumbent Democrat John Lynch to return the $4,000 Kerry donated to Lynch's campaign.
Kerry, with a single thoughtless statement, has breathed new life into faltering Republican campaigns all across the country.
His lack of thought, his monumentally poor sense of timing and his personal arrogance as exhibited in his reaction to the furor his remarks have created should be a clear indication to members of the Democratic Party's leadership that Kerry's days as a standard-bearer for the party -- and, perhaps, even his days as a senator from Massachusetts -- should be numbered.
-- Portsmouth Herald
Pretty much the same thing as millions of other Democrats are thinking, but they don't normally get caught saying it on television.
Or, if they do say it on television, they aren't held to account because they aren't United States Senators.
Or, if they are Senators, they aren't former Democrat candidates for the presidency of the United States who are known to be running again.
Hell, this is just like every other Democrat scandal since clinton came into office. Kerry's offense was to get caught and bobble his defense.
There is some good news in this Kerry story.
Max Cleland was not present to pick up the grenade!
It didn't have to be "interpreted", the meaning was clear.
Kerry danced around the statement, claiming it was a bad joke gone worse,...
The explanation he concocted was one that only a stupid person would believe. Since he obviously expected the troops to believe it, he was, in effect, calling them stupid again.
In the meantime, Kerry keeps holding press conferences announcing his non-apology.
Kerry is no victim here.
This is perfect example of "there is no such thing as bad publicity" for someone in his current position. He is milking the limelight on this.
Yeah, I caught that to. First clue the author should be ignored as a reliable source. Anyone that knos who Hugh Grant is, and remembers that incident, has it ingrained in their head the question came from Leno. Except this person obviously.
Kerry doesn't think. That's his problem.
Some otherwise-intelligent people can be infected by liberal blindness disease. Such people have no trouble accepting Kerry's "apology" despite the fact that it makes no sense.
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