Lando 
Posted on 11/05/2006 7:02:10 AM PST by KeyLargo
Swift Boater No. 1
November 5, 2006 12:50 am
John Kerry's painful self-expiation
SEN. JOHN KERRY'S little joke about smarts and soldiering in Iraq turned out to be, pardon the expression, not much of a swiftie. If the Kerry Correlation is true, the senator's performance at a California city college last week qualified him to be dropped off alone in middle of the Sunni Triangle with a rifle, pack, and desert uniform with a stitched-on name patch: Doofus.
If that scenario sounds suicidal, Mr. Kerry's remark about the lazy and ill-educated "get[ting] stuck in Iraq"--he claimed later he was talking about President Bush, but Mr. Bush is a fellow Yalie--was political hari-kari. Speaking of Mr. Kerry's presidential prospects in 2008, the amoral political genius Dick Morris says, with a brevity that precludes dissent, "Kerry is dead." One commiserates with Mr. Kerry, returning home to Teresa after immolating their First Couple hopes, perhaps trying to explain things while dodging every shoe in her closet. She probably has a lot of shoes. Mr. Kerry may not have encountered hostile fire this intense on the Mekong.
Actually, the senator's lethal gag might be better likened to a suicide bombing: Not only did he blow up himself, but he also blasted shrapnel at Democratic candidates in tight races, some of whom disinvited him from campaign appearances. A week before a watershed election, apathetic GOP voters were sharply reminded why they might want to keep Congress from falling wholly into the hands of the party that just two years ago ran John Kerry for commander in chief.
Mr. Kerry's lapsus linguae , as Dick Mephistopheles Morris pointed out, may have been Freudian. The senator may really look down on the troops. But the current U.S. military got off easy--Mr. Kerry implied that they are merely ignorant--compared with their forebears who fought in Vietnam. Young John likened them to the brutal minions of Genghis Khan, only with grenades.
There are dirty politics, and there are pseudo-dirty politics, tossed unjustly by skilled liars into the skullduggery cell. One widely accepted falsehood is that Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, the Democrats' 1988 presidential candidate, was "smeared" by George H.W. Bush's Willie Horton ads. In fact, as governor, Mr. Dukakis had backed the furlough program that allowed Horton to rape a Maryland woman and half-kill her fiance. Another crystallizing canard paints the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth as a GOP front group devoted to ruining Mr. Kerry's Vietnam War record just in time for the 2004 election. While that group went too far in impugning the basis for Mr. Kerry's combat awards, it brought overdue reckoning to a man who had branded hundreds of thousands of living and dead warriors as berserk brutes.
Now Mr. Kerry self-administers final justice to his political career. Dr. Freud, how we love thee.
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qualified him to be dropped off alone in middle of the Sunni Triangle with a rifle,
Why would he get a rifle? After he surrendered it would only be used by his captors.
Hey, dirtboy, this guy stole your excellent analogy :)
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Only someone who has never read 'Unfit for Command' could make that statement.
Lando
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Maybe it is Iraq-ancide, instigated by a Kerry speechwriter who was a Hillary acolyte.
DOOFUS
I would disagree with this statement. John Kerry's actions relieved his Swift Boat detractors any obigation towards forbearance they would otherwise have shown any other veteran.
When someone spends 4 months out of a 12 month rotation in a combat zone, gets three purple hearts, one for having metal splinter removed with tweezers and a band-aid placed over the "wound". He is a scumbag who was using his military service as a political springboard, everyone at the time knew it, and all of them were glad to see him leave. That says volumes to me, as does the vicous and traitorous slander he committed upon his return home. I live in MA, and it is a disgrace to have him as a Senator. It embarasses me deeply.
This is what I had on my car for two years...
John Kerry: If you do not have class,
You cannot buy it.
You cannot marry into it.
You cannot get it from politics
You cannot get it from Yale or Harvard.
You cannot get it by serving in the military, especially from an abbreviated and dishonorable service.
You cannot get it by learning a foreign language.
You cannot get it by getting a $500 haircut.
You cannot get it by buying a tailored suit.
You cannot get it by riding a bike.
You cannot get it by snowboarding.
You cannot get it by verbally abusing a Secret Service agent who would put his life on the line to save your sorry ass.
You cannot get it by throwing a football or kicking a soccer ball.
You cannot get it by donning hunting gear and "gettin yerself a hunting license".
You cannot get it by holding up dead geese.
You cannot get it by painting your face orange.
You cannot get it by running for President.
You won't get it hanging around with the Kennedys.
You cannot get it by drinking wine or eating brie.
You most definitely cannot get it by ingratiating yourself with the French.
You either have class. Or you don't.
You don't.
"...He is a scumbag.."
Yep
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
It'd better be a topic on all the Sunday blab shows or I'll be pissed off...we need this hanging out there as long as possible.
Yeah, they can't cover Kerry, they're too busy looking for Mark Foley.
The DNC pimp media is simply, terrible.
Too far?
Q. Since when has telling the truth been going too far?
A. When it exposes a leftist fraud.
But...this is just stating the obvious. Sorry.
-- who had a higher G.P.A. at Yale than Kerry did.
You're right. Just arm him with a M18A1 Claymore strapped to his chest.
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