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Michelle Malkin on Kerry's failure to counter the effectiveness of the Swift Vote ads:

http://www.vdare.com/malkin/kerry_mr_perfect.htm

John Kerry: Mr. Perfect for President?
By Michelle Malkin

TV cameras are brutally unforgiving—especially during high-stakes election debates. They amplified the angst on Richard Nixon’s brow, the inexperience in Dan Quayle’s eyes, and the vulgarity of Al Gore’s visage.

How will Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry hold up under the spotlight? What will the cameras reveal?

Beneath the Christophe-coifed hair, unnaturally taut skin, and artificially enhanced tan, there are some naked attributes Kerry cannot conceal:

His spite. His haughtiness. His condescending core.

John Kerry detests his opponents. He detests his own staff. He detests anybody and anything that interferes with his political ambitions.

Since returning from Vietnam, his main contribution to public discourse has been contempt, not courage. He possesses resentment, not hope. He does not inspire. He sulks.

Much has been said about Kerry’s superior argumentative skills. He was a champion debater at Yale; his former Republican opponents in Massachusetts have effusively praised his quick recall and rhetorical agility.

This will no doubt impress the like-minded lefties in America’s newsrooms and Hollywood salons. But in America’s living rooms, a man’s unvarnished character—how he carries himself, how he treats others, how he responds to adversity—speaks volumes over the stilted platitudes and smoothly memorized factoids that come out of his mouth.

This isn’t a race for prom king or Jeopardy! champion. It’s a race for leader of the free world.

Throughout the course of the campaign, Kerry has demonstrated a holier-than-thou hubris that continues to alienate security moms, Reagan Democrats, and swing voters of all backgrounds.

It’s not just his disingenuous vacillation on foreign policy (he was for the war before he was against it, but he’d vote the same way) that bothers folks.

It’s not just the Kennedy-esque photo-ops of Kerry in athletic settings that scream vanity instead of vigor.

It’s the ugly little things that pile up and create the indelible image of a Royal Jerk:

Such as publicly calling one of his own Secret Service agents a "son of a [bleep]" for accidentally knocking him down on his snowboard during a press availability in Ketchum, Idaho. "I don’t fall," Kerry sniffed to reporters as he cursed the Secret Service agent on the record.

Such as badmouthing NASA for releasing routine publicity photos of Kerry, dressed in a goofy-looking "bunny suit," while on a campaign visit to the shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center. After the pictures caused unforeseen embarrassment, Kerry sent his spokeswoman onto the cable news to falsely suggest that NASA had played a dirty trick.

Such as burning his own campaign staff over his failure to effectively counter the claims of the Swift Boat Veterans. "The candidate is furious," a longtime senior Kerry adviser told the New York Daily News. "He knows the campaign was wrong. He wanted to go after the Swift boat attacks, but his top aides said no."

Such as ridiculing President Bush for remaining with schoolchildren for a few extra minutes after learning of the Sept. 11 attacks, while neglecting to mention his own emotional paralysis at the Capitol that morning

And such as using an Outdoor Life magazine question about what his favorite gun is to tout his Vietnam War hero status again, then faulting his campaign staff for fabricating the weapon he named in his interview. "My favorite gun is the M-16 that saved my life and that of my crew in Vietnam," Kerry is quoted as saying in the October issue. "I don't own one of those now, but one of my reminders of my service is a Communist Chinese assault rifle."

Now, according to Monday’s New York Times:"Senator John Kerry's campaign said yesterday that Mr. Kerry did not own a Chinese assault rifle, as he was quoted as saying in Outdoor Life magazine, but a single-bolt-action military rifle, blaming aides who filled out the magazine's questionnaire on his behalf for the error."

This is the paragon of strong moral leadership who will bring victory in the War on Terrorism and restore America’s values?

This Botox-ed egomaniac? This serial waffler? This ruthless buck-passer?

Proverbs 18:12 counsels: "Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility."

It’s a lesson Mr. Perfect will learn too late.

[Anker-Klanker]

That quote is a little out of context, I think. Kerry probably was privately furious about the SBVFT ads, but the proper context for the NYT quote was that he was furious with his staff for advising him not to counter the SBVFT ads immediately after they appeared.

Small deal, but we need to stay on the straight and narrow.

[openfish24]

she is so right on the money.

It is amazing to me that the man is getting a single vote.

semper fi

[buffman]

Gosh, she is brilliant! And so true.
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If I was 30 years younger, I'd like her to be the mother of my children....

Then again, if I was 30 years younger, I'd be spitting out sand from my Wheaties and canned milk, somewhere near Falujah, and I'd only see her great articles....
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[kmmpatriot]

[GenrXr]

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I think what *really* sticks in Kerry's craw is ToD has what? 38,000 total sales? And UFC is well on its way to 1,000,000 and no signs of it slowing down.....
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[God and Country]

Guys, Michelle Malkin is married with children.


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[BillB]

GenXr wrote: " I have met with many world war II vets and they are clueless to what we face."

Well here is one WW II vet who is glad you're remark doesn't apply
to me. Course I served into the beginning years of the Vietnam era
so maybe that helps explain my understanding.
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