My favorite Kerry photo: After losing to Dubya, forced to cower in the background to these "mental giants."
Posted on 02/19/2014 7:51:01 AM PST by raccoonradio
A guy in The Wall Street Journal yesterday had a question about the secretary of state that I feel qualified to answer.
“When John Kerry speaks,” Bret Stephens wrote, “people wonder: Is he seriously clever or totally oblivious? Profound or void? Detective Columbo or Chance the gardener?’
The answers are: totally oblivious, void and Chance the gardener.
But Stephens is posing the wrong questions here. It’s not his fault, because you’re supposed to take a guy with Liveshot’s supposedly impeccable resume seriously. But the fact is, Kerry is an empty suit’s empty suit, and the only thing about him that should be taken seriously is his career as a gigolo.
First he married Julia Thorn, from the Main Line, who was worth maybe $300 million. She dumped him, and he ended up sleeping on his ex-brother-in-law’s couch.
But then he again struck gold, and I do mean gold, as in gold-digger. This time it was U.S. Sen. John Heinz’s widow, Mama T. She’s worth close to a billion, and by the time he became secretary of state, he had gone from a net worth of perhaps $2.78 to “the richest man in the Senate.”
He made his money the old-fashioned way. He married it.
Otherwise, what exactly has he done? The phrase “idiot savant” comes to mind, if it’s defined as “intelligence in one or several areas (but) lacking or without common sense.”
Think of all the idiotic things he’s said over the years. He’s the Democrats’ Dan Quayle.
“Can I get me a hunting license here?”
“I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against the $87 billion.”
“If you don’t (study) you get stuck in Iraq.” (Followed by his if-possible even dumber explanation: “It was a botched joke!”)
“This tunnel will be a bargain!” (He was talking about the Big Dig.)
“The Iraqi army is in such bad shape, even the Italian army could kick its butt.”
On former Gov. Bill Weld: “The guy takes more vacations than a guy on welfare.” (Should a world-class gigolo really be ripping anyone else, even bums, for their leisure time?)
In the Journal, Stephens wrote that Kerry seems like a “true believer” in global warming, or whatever the moonbats are calling their cult this week. Actually, Bret, Liveshot just believes what he thinks all the other kool kids believe right at this moment — anti-Vietnam, pro- Sandinista, nuclear freeze, now global whatever-they-call-it. The Israelis think Liveshot hates them because he’s trying to jam a crappy peace deal with the Palestinians down their throats. Nothing could be further from the truth. He doesn’t care about the Israelis or the Palestinians one way or the other.
He only cares about a Nobel Peace Prize. All the kool kids have one.
Newt Gingrich this week called Liveshot “delusional.” Is this supposed to be news?
My favorite Kerry photo: After losing to Dubya, forced to cower in the background to these "mental giants."
Steyn said it best: “Vainglorious buffoon”
After all this man has been awarded
The Silver Star
The Croix de Guerre avec Palm
The Pour le Merité mit das Ritterkreutz und Diamants
The Order of the Thousand Elephants
and has three (3) Purple Hearts.
The fact that these honors were self-awarded is unimportant. His clandestine swim up the Mekong to track down NAZI spies on Christmas Eve at the orders of soon-to-be President Nixon shows an uncanny ability to deal with even those on the politically opposite side of the philosophical spectrum and will live forevermore in the military annals of our great nation, especially if he has anything to say about it. I am as proud of this Irish-American hero as I would be proud of Elizabeth Warren if I were a Native American. (Or if he were actually Irish, or she an Indian, anyway)
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