John Kerry and his distended, airy head
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To the Face, 'Afore the Election |
Senator John Kerry has handed the Republicans, struggling through the six-year itch election cycle and the ramifications of their own unConservative foibles, the gift that will keep on giving, the multi-news cycle visual aide that serves to remind the vox populi just what the alternative to the incumbent Elephants is, but one week before said voices alight the air with their song.
I will deviate from the Republican sheet music for but a moment to say that in Monday’s now infamous flight of podium fancy the benighted Senator from the electorally ridiculous state of Massachusetts did indeed intend his assault on the intellect of solely the President, not each and every member of the armed services.
But to answer the question bandied about in the 1992 Presidential campaign, character does count, and Kerry has played directly to it three times (thus far) in the playing out of any chance of his attaining higher office.
It is this man that the Democrat Party chose as their standard bearer just two years prior not because he did it the most for them (Howard Dean did), but because they made the determination that he was the most electable.
That this was likely the case speaks in no small part to why the Republicans will again be ruling the roost when next the Congress convenes.
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First, while not demonstrating disdain for the troops this time (just their Commander in Chief), he has, at great length and depth, done so on numerous prior occasions.
To name but two, there was his December 4th, 2005 appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation, during which he uttered, “And there is no reason, Bob (Schieffer, host), that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs. … Iraqis should be doing that”.
To translate his Liberal-ese, why should we be “terrorizing kids and children (is this redundancy, or a reference to young goats?) and, you know (we do?) women”, when the natives are perfectly capable to so do?
This Eye Network anti-American inanity falls right in line with his now notorious 1971 Winter Soldier Congressional diatribe, which launched his political career (such as it is, now) and contained the panoply of charges, for which he has ever since stood, against his fellow soldiers, his government and his nation.
Which leads us to Playing to Character Moment #2. Kerry’s unreconstructed invective on Tuesday of his vainglorious week, in which he demanded an apology from the man he had just one day prior labeled an uneducated idiot, and insisted that he himself would never expiate “to anyone”.
Kerry, it seems, (wrongly) thinks his lack of a timely and proper response to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth cost him the 2004 run for the Presidency. In his mad dash to avoid again being “Swift Boated” by Republicans, or Conservatives, or whomever, Kerry beat all the usual suspects to the punch and did it himself.
This is, of course and in actuality, the very same person culpable the first go ‘round. Liberals like Kerry of the Wind possess the perpetual penchant for thinking that their words and deeds will remain unanalyzed and devoid of consequence.
Once Upon a Media Time this was the case; no longer.
His adamancy about being impenitent lasted less than twelve hours. His Tuesday tirade went over so very poorly that he was forced to quietly post an apology on his website the very next day.
In which we find Playing to Character Moment #3, or, more specifically, attempting to play it all off by going outside of character. Kerry’s affront, you see, was nothing more than a “poorly stated joke”, which was simply “misinterpreted” and was not meant to “wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform”.
As stated before, this I get, but excuse me, Ladies and Gentlemen, no one has ever confused the comic stylings of John Kerry with anyone, you know, at all humorous. He has been in the public eye for his entire adult life, and he has, at the very least, failed to cultivate the reputation as a witty, or even a funny, guy.
Under the grandest of spotlights, whilst running for the highest of offices, not a trace of (intentional) humor was to be detected in the man.
So to endeavor to dismiss this horrific political gaffe, so calendarially close to the finish line, as but a one liner gone awry does not resonate with the pure tone of truth.
The dulcet pitch to be taken in is that Kerry is, and always has been, as he appeared on Monday and Tuesday: self-righteous, aloof, elitist, condescending and, realistically, unintelligent. And, most important of all, anti-American.
It is this man that the Democrat Party chose as their standard bearer just two years prior not because he did it the most for them (Howard Dean did), but because they made the determination that he was the most electable.
That this was likely the case speaks in no small part to why the Republicans will again be ruling the roost when next the Congress convenes.
