I’ll question his commitment to defend this country and I will question his patriotism and I will question his fitness to serve as commander-in-cheif. And I did volunteer to serve and I am in Iraq!

Posted by: soldier in iraq at September 3, 2004 07:29 AM

“unfit to lead this nation.”

???

We have just had 3.5 years of documented leadership to point to. Do I have a nose on my face?

This is like an inferior football team getting down and resorting to wild “Hail Marys.” Usually they are run back by the other team.

Posted by: jones at September 3, 2004 07:41 AM

The best defense is a good offense.

MoonBat offense loses every time.

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at September 3, 2004 07:48 AM

!GNAB

Posted by: aebrain at September 3, 2004 07:55 AM

Spontanous Combustion. Implosion.

Perhaps all the botox removed the wrinkles from the cerebral cortex as well?!

Posted by: DevilDoc at September 3, 2004 08:18 AM

DevilDoc :

I don’t question Kerry’s undoubtedly keen intelligence.
I don’t question his high level of education.
I don’t question his courage.
I don’t question his patriotism.
I don’t even question his morality.

But his judgement sucks. We’re talking 50-60 GigaLindas here.
It sucks worse than the entire 97-years of production at the Hoover factory.
It sucks worse than a galactic black hole.

I’m saying that under pressure, he makes Dukakis look good, and Teddy Kennedy positively statesmanlike.

Posted by: aebrain at September 3, 2004 08:45 AM

This
is
your
wake
up
call

5 words?

Posted by: FredRum at September 3, 2004 09:19 AM

This is just Ed Muskie crying in the snow.

(Sorry, for the Gen X-ers here, but you won’t get the reference.)

Posted by: DWC at September 3, 2004 09:21 AM

Why is the DoD checking on Kerry’s Medals? Because tampering with Military Records is a Federal Crime.

—==—

Steal this sig:

Why did John Kerry meet three times with the representatives of the Viet Cong and Communist North Vietnam?

Some times it takes a while to sell out your country.

New Soldier html

What is the War Hero Afraid of?
Form 180. Release ALL the records

Posted by: M. Simon at September 3, 2004 10:06 AM

I got five words for you, Senator Kerry.

SWIFT BOAT VETS FOR TRUTH

Ouch! That hurt when I pulled that danged Bandaid off my arm…

Let’s see who REALLY signed the forms.

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at September 3, 2004 10:22 AM

It was embarrassing, it was infuriating, and it oozed desperation.

Kerry’s temper tantrum was one of a petulant, spoiled, self-aggrandizing poltroon wrapped up in “I served in Vietnam, so you can’t ever ever criticize me on anything” insufferable conceit.

Anyone who viewed that “performance” and still seriously considers voting for Kerry ….. well, I seriously question their rationality.

Posted by: Darleen at September 3, 2004 10:48 AM

5 words:
1)This
2)is
3)your
4)wake
5)up
6)call

GWB may not be Chruchill, but the man can count, can JFnK?

Posted by: billhedrick at September 3, 2004 11:56 AM

Maybe he was counting in French?

Posted by: TexasGal at September 3, 2004 12:07 PM

Whoa. Dennis Prager really hits the Kerry issue square on. When he heard Kerry’s schtick “RNC stands for Really Not Compassionate” all he could thought was this kind of stuff is done in 7th grade, but not among adults.

Voting for GW is making sure an adult is in charge; Democrats have become a party of childishness.

Posted by: Darleen at September 3, 2004 12:13 PM

That’s it? Wake-up isn’t one word? Stunning.

Posted by: bananas at September 3, 2004 01:14 PM

And I suppose Cambodia is bordered by the Mekong too, right bananas?

Would it have hurt Kerry to have gotten some sleep and let his speech writers work through the night? Or to stop being such a milksop? Every comment about him at the RNC was tame compared to all the bushitler nonsense. If G.W. can take three years of that, Kerry should be able to weather a few comments about his senate votes.

Posted by: Brian at September 3, 2004 01:42 PM

Kerry is looking weak on this. He can’t take the heat and the campaign is getting warmer and warmer.

Some in the Democrat camp are threatening retaliation but what worse could they say? How much more mud could they sling?

It seems to the Democrats that anything mentioned about Kerry is somehow a smear. Pointing to his voting record, or quoting him is some how dirty pool.

Will Kerry repudiate his testimony in 71? Will he stand up and renounce the words of Whoppi Goldberg and others who he called “the heart and soul of America”?

Come on Democrats, as you sew, so shall you reap. Toughen up or shut up.

Posted by: skip at September 3, 2004 01:52 PM

Back Off! The man knows how to connect with the people through sports.

ELECTION 2004
Kerry wrong about Red Sox
Incorrectly claims Boston team gained on Yankees

Posted: September 3, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

In the opening statement of his response to President Bush’s GOP convention acceptance speech, Sen. John Kerry claimed the Boston Red Sox moved to within 2.5 games of the division-leading New York Yankees.

He was wrong. The Red Sox began the night 3.5 games behind the New York Yankees and ended the evening in the same place as both teams won

.Link

Posted by: capitano at September 3, 2004 01:57 PM

Unfortunately the brilliance of the Midnight Madness strategy and the power of Kerry’s speech had a downside — former President Bill Clinton was so impressed he suffered a Klong and was admitted to the hospital for bypass surgery.

Posted by: capitano at September 3, 2004 02:11 PM

This just shows that Kerry is a delusional paranoid. Question his patriotism when his war service is praised (to applause no less)? I saw the speeches. No one questioned his patriotism. It is possible that Carl Rove or John O’Neill are secretly planning Kerry’s demise. But, again, everything Kerry alleges last night I personally witnessed so this simply does not fly. It is a very short extrapolation about what is going on behind closed doors to conclude those conspiracies also are purely in Kerry’s vivid imagination. (Consider if Kerry is right. We should put Rove the Svengali in charge of counter-terrorism because he could convince OBL to surrender merely because it would re-elect GWB.)

What happens when a foreign country has a different interest than our own? Will Kerry interpret it as a personal insult and drop the big one on them? Last night proves Kerry has the wrong temperament to be Commander in Chief. The same could probably be said of Zell Miller — challenging France to a duel at twenty pacess — but he at least isn’t running for POTUS.

P.S. Wake-up would be hyphenated so he go the word count correct. John Kerry for Math Teacher.

Posted by: Rich Blinne at September 3, 2004 03:20 PM

Brian

You suggest it was impossible for Kerry to perform a Swift Boat mission in Cambodia, and that every comment about Kerry at the RNC was ‘tame compared to all the bushitler nonsense’. Back those up. Handy hint: Bush’s name was mentioned 4x less often at the DNC than Kerry was mentioned at the RNC. Start with the DNC quotes.

Unless you want to skirt around the addresses given by DNC speakers and talk about the opinions of other parties. I can see why you might want to do that.

Posted by: bananas at September 3, 2004 03:23 PM

dirk/bananas…

Please.

While your at it, WHICH horse do you have in this race?!?

Thought so.

Posted by: DevilDoc at September 3, 2004 03:35 PM

The great fruited one is now resorting to math to spin Kerry’s dreadful response.

It’s a worthy effort but to no avail. The left has had ample opportunity to impugn Bush’s reputation and now as the say in dueling they must stand and take fire.

I applaud Zell’s handling of that blow hard Matthews. The analysis of this offered today on NRO gets it exactly right.

Matthews is a partisan, and that’s OK, but not when he’s parading as a “journalist”. Further, as alternatives to the MM grow in popularity people like Zell Miller will have less reason to kow tow to pimps like Matthews. Hopefully more people will take Chris Matthews on. Hey hardball is hardball.

And I agree with Zell Miller that were this a time when duelling was acceptable, Matthews would have to act differently. If he knew that his behavior might get him a challenge to pistols for two and breakfast for one, he might actually mind his manners.

Posted by: skip at September 3, 2004 03:51 PM

Bananas, what Kerry did last night was positively brilliant. If you see Senator Kerry tell him to do it again and again and again. Please.

Posted by: Rich Blinne at September 3, 2004 04:13 PM

I looked up the Vice President’s viscous slander against Senator Kerry:

“The President’s opponent is an experienced senator. He speaks often of his service in Vietnam, and we honor him for it.”

Posted by: Rich Blinne at September 3, 2004 04:33 PM

Dave Dubé to Private 1st Class Krystian Andrzejczak, Corporal Grzegorz Rusinek, Private 1st Class Sylwester Kutrzyk, Lance Corporal Paul David Trevor Thomas, Captain Yuriy Ivanov, Sergeant 1st Class Jeroen Severs, Private Marc Ferns, Private Lee Martin O’Callaghan and Private Christopher Gordon Rayment - drop dead.

Nobody wants to confirm Brian’s risible implication that a Cambodia mission could not have been performed by Kerry. Nobody seems willing to address the falsehoods in Miller’s or Cheney’s or even Bush’s speeches. Miller’s great rant included a chunk of a prank email - surely a contributory factor to his last-minute exclusion from Bush’s intimate circle. And if anyone here is still seeing Miller’s Hardball performance in a positive light then line up with the serried ranks of sprained boners in Freep/LGF land. Watching their slavering posts mount up amused me greatly. Stroke the base, guys. Stroke the base.

Posted by: bananas at September 3, 2004 05:14 PM

Bush’s name was mentioned 4x less often at the DNC than Kerry was mentioned at the RNC. Start with the DNC quotes.

Perhaps that was because the DNC had to edit all the speaches before they would let their apostles on the stage, except of course on Rev. Al Sharpton made up for all of them. Maybe it was because they realized it was best that they didn’t remind any TV audience of George Bush by calling his name too much. And just maybe that’s the very reason why the RNC decided to use Kerry’s name. It made a great comparison.

Posted by: TexasGal at September 3, 2004 06:03 PM

YellowSkinnedHerb Would you mind running that last post through BabelFish before we continue this civil discourse?

It made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Would you be so kind as to point out the falsehoods?

BTW - I told nobody to drop dead, much less you.

Leave it at the FruitStand next time, will ya?

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at September 3, 2004 06:40 PM

TG

The Dems are clearly Satan’s spawn. Surely a brisk fisk is worth your while? It’ll reflect well on the GOP. Let’s have a convention quote-a-thon (with factual citation backup, naturally, otherwise, well, falsehoods (we call them lies over here) could be traded to no great effect). Hmm, have I terminated all relevant parentheses? This arguin’ is hard!

Have at it. First up, if you like… Disprove Cheney moved to nix the same military progs that Kerry was criticised for voting against at the RNC. Or, throw up some hard-hearted personal bs directed at their political opponents by the Dem keynote speaker, VP nominee or Kerry. Or alternatively lose interest, as I am doing while I type this. I won’t blame you. I’ll blame that dang two-step! Which seems to be nothing more than a clunky method of declaring victory and moving on.

Moving on…

Cap

Ignoring you for months - to no avail. You said, as you have said before

dirk/bananas…
Please.
While your at it, WHICH horse do you have in this race?!?
Thought so.

Well, that dead horse. That’s my horse. You’ve utterly dismissed my entire being before. Why should I be surprised that you consider the deaths of the aforementioned peripheral? They, and I, do not have a horse in this race. You’ve said so. Excuse us for living. And dying.

And for fuck’s sake, always with the insults. I’ve ignored you for months - the last response I remember making resulted in you presenting me with a Google search term and calling it an argument - have you not realised? I mean, you’re pushing 60 and BananaPooPoo? For fuck’s sake. Take your faux piety and shove it up a headless child’s corpse whose interring you endorsed. Fuck off. I’ve had it with you. Give my regards to God, hypocrite.

Posted by: bananas at September 3, 2004 07:10 PM

Whoaaao. Everyone chill. Doc … back off. Bananas … don’t go … well, bananas. Waaayy to personal, this rant. On big happy partisan family, OK? Thanks.

Posted by: Alan at September 3, 2004 07:54 PM

One big happy … you know what I mean. I’m drinking and smoking a cigar. Forgive me.

Posted by: Alan at September 3, 2004 07:55 PM

Or alternatively lose interest, as I am doing while I type this. I won’t blame you. I’ll blame that dang two-step! Which seems to be nothing more than a clunky method of declaring victory and moving on.

Dirk/bananas et al,

Yep, your horse is dead. The DNC put a bullet in his head when Terry McAuliffe (Global Crossing) decided the candidate didn’t matter, only the Anybody But Bush philosophy should prevail. I wish to take this opportunity to thank all my liberal colleagues for their short-sightedness in over-looking the value in placing Joe Lieberman as the challenger.

Actually it’s not that I loose interest in a tit-for-tat quote-a-thon, but it appears to be an unnecessary use of my time. I realize you are at a disadvantage because of your location. But it was widely reported here that the DNC pulled in the reigns on their stallions for fear they had already capitalized on the hate-base in their party and to continue that course would be counter-productive.

The fact of the matter is Dirk/bananas et al, you never really had a horse, it was one of those stick ponies with a stuffed head and good hair. That’s all. Fiberfill for brains and ‘yarn’ for a mouth.

But never fear, GWB will continue to work to keep you and your countrymen safe.

Posted by: TexasGal at September 3, 2004 09:44 PM

Alan (1) I will NOT back off. Not from Dirk, or any other commentor who likes to take the sarcastic low-road, and question (however nuanced it might be) my moral fiber. To whit:

“Dave Dubé to Private 1st Class Krystian Andrzejczak, Corporal Grzegorz Rusinek, Private 1st Class Sylwester Kutrzyk, Lance Corporal Paul David Trevor Thomas, Captain Yuriy Ivanov, Sergeant 1st Class Jeroen Severs, Private Marc Ferns, Private Lee Martin O’Callaghan and Private Christopher Gordon Rayment - drop dead.”

Posted by bananas at September 3, 2004 05:14 PM

(2)“Cap Ignoring you for months - to no avail. You said, as you have said before”

dirk/bananas…
Please.
While your at it, WHICH horse do you have in this race?!?
Thought so.

Well, that dead horse. That’s my horse. You’ve utterly dismissed my entire being before. Why should I be surprised that you consider the deaths of the aforementioned peripheral? They, and I, do not have a horse in this race. You’ve said so. Excuse us for living. And dying.

I did not make that comment. READ THE COMMENT that I made, and you will find no reference to YOUR horse, be it dead or alive.

And for fuck’s sake, always with the insults. I’ve ignored you for months - the last response I remember making resulted in you presenting me with a Google search term and calling it an argument - have you not realised? I mean, you’re pushing 60 and BananaPooPoo? For fuck’s sake.

You can’t use Google??? Or are you just disturbed that what you found when you did take the time to use it, made your argument (in YOUR terms) a rotting banana?

“Take your faux piety and shove it up a headless child’s corpse whose interring you endorsed. Fuck off. I’ve had it with you. Give my regards to God, hypocrite.”

Uncalled for. My faith is not the issue here. Your sarcasm (sick as it is) has been questioned, only because it makes for nothing more than a poor argument.

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at September 4, 2004 10:37 AM

“Fiberfill for brains and ‘yarn’ for a mouth.

YEEEHAW! ROFLMAO, TexasLady!

Yarn. Is that the same as a BigFatLie?

The italicized portion Posted by: TexasGal at September 3, 2004 09:44 PM

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at September 4, 2004 10:40 AM

Yarn. Is that the same as a BigFatLie?

Yeehawww!

Cap’n, I can feel the ground shaking in the South.

I think there’s a STAMPEDE COMING!

Giddy-up John-John!!

Posted by: TexasGal at September 4, 2004 03:36 PM

The silence is stunning, Dirk…

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at September 5, 2004 10:53 AM