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rsrobinson
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 Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:03 pm Post subject: Mark Steyn: Kerry can't take the heat |
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If you're not reading Mark Steyn on a regular basis then you really should be. In his latest column Steyn rips into Kerry's bizarre Midnight Madness speech and then writes about how ineptly his campaign has been handling the swift boat vet controversy. Here's an excerpt:
| Quote: | That's surely why Kerry is running his kamikaze kandidacy on biography rather than any grand themes. Senator Kerrikaze is running for president because he thinks he should be president -- who needs a platform? One of the most revealing aspects of the campaign this last week were the interviews given by his various surrogates. Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic National Committee chairman, went on Hugh Hewitt's radio show and was asked about the swift boat veterans' ads, and he laughed and blustered and stalled and floundered. That sounded weird. This thing's been going on a month now, and the Kerry campaign still hasn't come up with a form of words to deflect questions about it. If they had an agreed spin, McAuliffe and Co. would be out using it. But the seared senator feels it's lese majeste even to question him. He can talk about Vietnam 24/7, but nobody else is allowed to bring it up.
Sorry, man, that's not the way it works. And if he thinks it does, he's even further removed from the realities of democratic politics than he was from the interior of Cambodia. Instead of those military records the swift boat vets are calling for, I'd be more interested in seeing his medical ones.
As for Bush, to be sure at one level his convention was a ''soft-focus infomercial,'' just as Kerry's was. But the infomercial came into sharp focus just often enough to clarify, piercingly, the differences between the parties. On opening night in Boston, the Democrats staged a tasteful, teary candlelight remembrance of those who died on 9/11. On opening night in New York, the Republicans put up one speaker after another -- John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Ron Silver -- resolved that those thousands of innocents shall not have died in vain.
I remember a couple of days after Sept. 11 writing that weepy candlelight vigils were a cop-out: the issue wasn't whether you were sad about the dead people but whether you wanted to do something about it. Three years on, the two conventions drew the same distinction. If you want passivity and wallowing in victim culture, the Dems will do. If you want to win this thing, Bush is the only guy running. |
You can read the whole thing here: http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn05.html |
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jataylor11
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Amen ---
Thank you to the Swift Vets for bringing to light the true John Kerry. |
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larrygj
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Steyn rocks!
I loved this: "Instead of those military records the swift boat vets are calling for, I'd be more interested in seeing his medical ones."
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rparrott21
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For a hardened war hero who has been shot up like swiss cheese and blown to pieces , he sure is sensitive...
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Stevie
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yeah, you'd think with [ALL his war experience, wounds etc he'd be showing the strong, unwavering, steely strength we see in McCain, Dole and ZELL MILLER.....
Could be he is suffering from the after war stess.... mental anguish and God only knows what else... |
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rparrott21
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| Let's see the x-ray of the sharpnel he's carried around all these years..I still have a pencil lead in my leg where I was stabbed in grammer school, but that doesn't qualify me for a teachers position.. |
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Nomorelies
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| rparrott21 wrote: | | Let's see the x-ray of the sharpnel he's carried around all these years..I still have a pencil lead in my leg where I was stabbed in grammer school, but that doesn't qualify me for a teachers position.. |
I'm not sure that rice will show up on an x-ray. Far more effective than spitballs.
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rparrott21
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| I would have loved to have seen his face when Zell from Hell was on... |
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The Cyber Menace
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Stein is Canadian, btw. We're not all a bunch of armchair socialists.  |
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cjg
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Cybermenace
Yes, all Canadians are not armchair socalists. They are some conservatives up here who care about America and its political
situation.
With great hope Kerry will lose with the biggest loss in the history of
America. Nothing else will do for me.
Mark Steyn is a great columnist and he can get very nasty about
Canada, but then he can get nasty about nearly everything and he
is usually right. Darn him, but I am glad he feels about Kerry as he
does and lets us know very clearly.
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Theresa Alwood
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Canada actually has conservatives?  Who would have thought. By all the MSM polls of Canadians I thought they thought all of us American's are just a bunch of kooks! Good to know that there are some Canadians who like American's.
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