More interesting things about “President” Kerry.
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. wrote a great article about Kerry and the moron vote: “The angry, stupid, political neurotic who has proceeded into middle age convinced that the world is against him/her.”
Tyrrell discusses Kerry’s hypocrisy in making an issue out of President Bush’s military service. Tyrrell always uses big words in his columns, by the way. I love it!
When Senator Kerry first decided to make an issue of his Vietnam service surely there must have been a cautious adviser around to remind him of all the luridly compromising evidence on his record, evidence showing him to be a deeply flawed war hero. Anyone who remembers young John Kerry’s prominence in anti-war and anti-American activities would caution him against making an issue of the easy-going George W. Bush’s past. Yet Kerry is playing to the moron vote. He knows they need to be enflamed. Thus he has bemanured the military record of a guy who flew F-102s and whose flight instructor ranked him “in the top 5% of pilots I knew.” Retired Colonel Maurice H. Udell also ranked the President in the top 1% in the “thinking department.”
Will the evidence that the President served dutifully and was discharged honorably damage Senator Kerry’s candidacy? It certainly will not hurt him with the moron vote. It will not even hurt him if his public record on Vietnam and national security in general becomes an issue. In 1971 this anti-war veteran told Congress that our army in Vietnam was committing “war crimes on a day-to-day basis” that included rape, torture, and murder “reminiscent of Genghis Khan.” Now he calls Vietnam veterans his “band of brothers.” Nor will Senator Kerry be hurt by his 1992 statement that “we do not need to divide America over who served and how” in Vietnam. (He was defending Bill Clinton, a draft dodger.)
Also, check out the post on Evangelical Outpost about “President” Kerry and POWs.
