California Yankee - "Kerry has demonstrated that he is unable to take a principled stand on any issue and stick to it."


I have said for many YEARS that Senator Kerry has no MORAL COMPASS.

Leave it to a WordSmith such as yourself to put it in terms even a Layman can understand.

most voters do not care what either President Bush or Kerry did thirty years ago.

However, and this is key: Many, if not most, voters do care what Bush and Kerry say about what they did 30 years ago, and how well it withstands the scrutiny of historical witness.

Kerry says his memory of Christmas in Cambodia is "seared" into his memory.

Bush says he was in the TANG.

The line to discredit Kerry is growing nearly every week. It now includes the military brass itself. Kerry has back-pedaled several miles by now.

The only ones in line to discredit Bush, are themselves being systematically discredited. In some cases, they are being discredited by the very people the Bush-haters tried to claim as supporters.

I'm just glad this all happened after the Dems' convention, rather than before. The ballots are already being printed, and trying to pull a switcheroo now would only weaken their already pathetic position.

Actually, to me it now matters. It matters because the Democrats have crossed the threshold of partisanship into religionism, from public discourse into FantasyLand, and they want to bring all of us and the entire American democratic process along with them.

We actually have people now saying--- publicly stating ---that it doesn't matter if the Bush Guard memos are fake because their contents are true. We have an allegedly independent major media conglomerate driving a partisan ad hominem narrative that they have essentially contrived out of whole cloth that is now stating that they don't care that they've been caught red-handed, they still have faith in their "story." And they're absolutely determined to try to make it play regardless by simply ignoring their critics. Meanwhile, Kerry is out there hammering away at Bush's "dishonesty" while he simultaneously steadfastly refuses to release his own records, presumably because they contain something embarrassing. How can he get away with this? By ignoring the situation and making sure that he never has to confront it in public.

The Democrats have now dropped any and all pretense in their pursuit of power at all costs, to the point of offending reason itself. The only question that remains is whether or not they are going to get away with it.

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I do not see how this ad works for the Dems. It just makes you say "Well at least Bush didn't testify about war crimes he didn't see", or "Gee, wonder what Bill Clinton thinks of all this." Funny how Dan Quayle's service wasn't an issue when the opponent was Clinton.

The problem with the Dems -- as Dick Morris points out in his column today, and previously -- is that their base is divided. Half opposed the war with Iraq, half supported it. So they cannot push on this as their issue because to bring up Iraq pushes away some of their base. So they need phony issues like this to unify them.

They could also focus on health care and the economy, and move to Bush's right on Homeland security. For the life of me I wonder why they don't.

When you were raised with the best of everything, private school in Europe, Yale graduate, bounced from one rich widow to the other, own 5 houses worth over $23 million and your running mate's worth millions that he bilked from doctors using junk science, when you originally applied for a deferment to study in Paris, which was rejected and ended taking a nice slot on a Swift boat because they were coastal patrols that didn' come close the action......

how big a set of balls do you have to have to point at someone else and call him the "Fortunate Son"?

The more strident they get, the more they send the message "we are losers."

Desperation sends a negative message.

Kerry is so flexible he could outdo Gumbie.

Trouble even he can't spread himself to cover both rabid pacifists and warriors who just want a different leader.

Sen. Joe McCarthy used forged documents and faked pictures
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We actually have people now saying—- publicly stating —-that it doesn’t matter if the Bush Guard memos are fake because their contents are true.

Think Senator Joe would agree with them? ;-)

If the shoe fits, hope they enjoy the taste of leather.

"It doesn’t matter if the Bush Guard memos are fake because their contents are true"
- turn it around!
It doesn't matter if Kerry's medals and citations are genuine because they were awarded on false grounds.

Maybe I'm a little old but the Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Fortunate Son" says, "It aint me, I ain't no Senator's son" I remember that as a reference to Al Gore. His Dad was a Senator. Dad Bush was never in the Senate.

I guess the Democrats were too strung out during this period to remember. They can't even get their own stupid ads straight.

Maybe they can forge a copy of the song to accuse President Bush of being a Senator's Son. Maybe they can take advantage of another elderly woman.

It must be embarassing to still be a member of the party that used to use the word Liberal to mean open minded and open to the facts. Progressive used to refer to Teddy Roosevelt. Now it refers to Marxist/Leninists. (CPUSA) I didn't leave the democrat party, the democrat party left me.

I hope Kerry never gets the opportunity to pull our troops out and leave the people of Iraq to genocide and dictatorship like he did Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. I teach in a high school with a large Indochinese population. You should hear the stories of the atrocities. Only Kerry/Fonda could enjoy it.

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