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[fortdixlover]

This says it all:

http://www.shotinthedark.info/archives/004286.html

Common Decency

Hugh Hewitt's Weekend Symposium question is a good one: "How deep a hole have John Kerry, Mary Beth Cahill and the Edwards dug for themselves? How lasting the damage?

Before I answer this, I have to ask myself a question: how cynical do I feel about my fellow American?

I thought about it for a moment, and answered "pretty dang cynical".

Let's talk about it.

What does it take to be a Kerry supporter in this election?

To buy the Kerry line to the point that you consider him presidential material, you have to simultaneously believe that:

George W. Bush was responsible for a recession that began well before he was nominated to run for the Presidency

That tax cuts on "the wealthy" were responsible for the job losses during the recession,

that "targeted" tax cuts given to score political points rather than foster contribution to the overall economy will be the cure...

...for an economy that's growing at a healthy clip

That Bush "lied" by using a justification for war in Iraq that Bill Clinton and, incidentally, John Kerry and much of the liberal media wholeheartedly endorsed when their party was in power

that John Kerry, internationalist extraordinaire who publicly called for a "global test" on American self-defense, would act first and foremost in America's best interest

That "letting inspectors..." who work for an international body that was paid-off and in the tank for Hussein "...do their job" would ever have twigged to any weapons programs that Hussein did have,

that porous sanctions imposed half-heartedly by paid-off politicians who had a fiscal interest in the sanctions' removal would even remain in force, much less break Hussein's stride

that a candidate who has spent his entire political career subverting and short-changing our military, either by commission (his "Winter Soldier" testimony, his meetings with the North Vietnamese in Paris) or omission (his impatient frenzy to cash in the "Peace Dividend" by downsizing and down-budgeting the military in the nineties, and his votes under a variety of motivations against a fair chunk of our current military arsenal) will be tough on defense in the middle of a war,

that a man who believes that terrorism in the eighties and nineties was ever a "nuisance", and that fat 'n happy, ignorant "nuisance"-hood is a desirable state for the nation's foreign policy has the faintest intention to "hunt down and destroy" terrorists

that a man who has stated he'd respond to "imminent" threats - from an enemy who operates in complete, cloistered secrecy and whose operations are incredibly resistant to intelligence-gathering efforts - is capable of even recognizing the threat we face, much less effectively dealing with it

That ceding our health care system to government control will, in abeyance of market laws, make health care simultaneously more affordable and yet better (all the while with John Edwards' strings being pulled by the Plaintiff's Bar)

That decades of voting for abortion, even partial-birth abortion, are consistent with the rigorous Catholic faith of the good altar-boy

Given a population segment that must simultaneously buy all of those premises (or choke back their horror at them, which may be worse), how big a stretch is it to assume that they'd be equally facile at ignoring the deeply-hypocritical assault on Mary Cheney's privacy and basic human dignity?

To become part of Kerry's base, you must ignore so much reality, suspend so much disbelief, and employ such Kerri-Strug-like logical gymnastics, it beggars the imagination to believe anyone in that base would even bat an eye at their candidate's hypocritical, calculated "faux pas".

Among the swing voter? You must again ask yourself how cynical you feel about your fellow voter.

I live in Saint Paul, heart of liberal darkness, and Twin City of Minneapolis, "Berkeley on the Prairie". I may not be the one to ask.

Posted by Mitch at October 15, 2004 05:04 PM

[helpmycountry]

Have you or did you see the drudge report where Kerry has a girlfried??Do yuo think it is true where the Washington POst and the New YOrk TImes will cover it??
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Swift Boat Veterans called back to war on Kerry
Linda McREA

[scotty61]

Nice post FortDix. But the question should be put, What does a Kerry supporter lack. The answer is simple; the ability to discern the truth.

[Scott]

[SangRun Hunter]

To answer in my own words:

You would have to be blind to any outside information or a complete follower of left.

It's unreal!
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Mad as Hell!

[helpmycountry]

SITTING IN COMMUNIST VIETCONG WITH PATTON SAYING HE HAS SO MUCH BLOOD ON HIS HANDS THAT NO BLEACH CAN WASH IT OFF. WHAT IS THERE TO JUDGE. JUST TRUTH.
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Swift Boat Veterans called back to war on Kerry
Linda McREA

[Fighter Cat]

Why does Sen. Kerry object to releasing all of his military records? Is he hiding something? Does it have to do with that 14 year old that he says he shot as he was fleeing or what? or does it have to do with meeting Jane Fonda?

I heard him say that he himself is a war criminal and everyone was a war criminal in NAM.

I am glad that "Stolen Honor" will be shown so that the American voters, and particulary those under the age of 40, will get educated as to what John Kerry did after he returned from Viet Nam. My ex-husband suffered shame and stigma for 30 years from this traitor and he was not a war criminal.

Kerry is causing a loss of moral now in Iraq as well. He hasn't changed one bit! He's still an ultra liberal socialist who cares more about getting the approval of the UN than us.

[P. Aaron]

What does it take to be a sKerry supporter?

These days, just hatin' Bush. I mean, you can catalogue all that stuff about the Senator, much of it is pretty standard liberal tripe. The worst thing about sKerry is the damage he did to the vets and POW's.

He's just a playboy with no real passion for anything...he's just walkin' around the country club buffet table putting little peices of anything on his plate. I don't see a guy driven by anything. Even a shallow guy like Clinton had a passion for campaigning...at least, and scoring with chicks.
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A willing tool of the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" since 1981.

[Dimsdale]

[army72]

[Armybrat/Armymom]

This is all true.

[BuffaloJack]

What does it take to be a Kerry supporter?
Answer: A Lobotomy.

[Hondo]

I was thinking the answer was "the ability to walk and talk without a working brain" - but BuffaloJack put it better. Kudos.
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse."
-- John Stuart Mill