Kerry can not take the heat. LIBERALS HATE AMERICA!


I would add, not just Kerry, Liberals in general cant take what they
dish out..................

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"'I have five words for Americans,'' he thundered. ''This is your wake
up call!''

Is that five words? Or is it six? Well, it's all very nuanced,
according to whether you hyphenate the ''wake-up.'' Maybe he
shouldhave said, ''I have four words plus a common hyphenated
expression for Americans.'' I'd suggest the rewrite to him personally,
but I don't want him to stare huffily at me and drone, "How dare you
attack my patriotism."

"That seems to be the way John Kerry likes it. Americans should be
free to call Bush a moron, a liar, a fraud, a deserter, an agent of
the House of Saud, a mass murderer, a mass rapist (according to the
speaker at a National Organization for Women rally last week) and the
new Hitler (according to just about everyone). But how dare anyone be
so impertinent as to insult John Kerry! No one has the right to insult
Kerry, except possibly Teresa, and only on the day she gives him his
allowance."

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Kerry's showing he just can't take the heat

September 5, 2004

BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Advertisement

Both candidates gave speeches late on Thursday night. George W. Bush
was more or less expected to. John Kerry didn't have to, but reported
for duty even though nobody wanted him to. Unnerved by sagging
numbers, he decided to start the post-Labor Day phase of the campaign
three days before Labor Day. The way things are going, Democrats seem
likely to be launching the post-election catastrophic-defeat
vicious-recriminations phase of the campaign round about Sept. 12.

At any rate, less than 60 minutes after President Bush gave a sober,
graceful, droll and moving address, Kerry decided to hit back. In the
midnight hour, he climbed out of his political coffin, and before his
thousands of aides could grab the garlic from Teresa's kitchen and
start waving it at him, he found himself in front of an audience and
started giving a speech. As in Vietnam, he was in no mood to take
prisoners: ''I have five words for Americans,'' he thundered. ''This
is your wake up call!''

Is that five words? Or is it six? Well, it's all very nuanced,
according to whether you hyphenate the ''wake-up.'' Maybe he should
have said, ''I have four words plus a common hyphenated expression for
Americans.'' I'd suggest the rewrite to him personally, but I don't
want him to stare huffily at me and drone, "How dare you attack my
patriotism."

By about nine words into John Kerry's wake up call, I was sound asleep
again. But this was what he told Ohio's brave band of chronic
insomniacs:

''For the past week, they attacked my patriotism and my fitness to
serve as commander in chief. Well, here's my answer. I'm not going to
have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who
refused to serve.''

Oh, dear . . . growing drowsy again . . . losing the will to type . ..
what's he saying now?

''Two tours of duty''

Ah, yes. As usual, he has four words for Americans: I served in
Vietnam. Or five words if you spell it Viet Nam.

So we have one candidate running on a platform of ambitious reforms
for an ''ownership society'' at home and a pledge to hunt down
America's enemies abroad. And we have another candidate running on the
platform that no one has the right to say anything mean about him.

And for this the senator broke the eminently civilized tradition that
each candidate lets the other guy have his convention week to himself?
Maybe they need to start scheduling those Kerry campaign shakeups
twice a week.

There was an old joke back in the Cold War:

Proud American to Russian guy: ''In my country every one of us has the
right to criticize our president.''

Russian guy: ''Same here. In my country every one of us has the right
to criticize your president.''

That seems to be the way John Kerry likes it. Americans should be free
to call Bush a moron, a liar, a fraud, a deserter, an agent of the
House of Saud, a mass murderer, a mass rapist (according to the
speaker at a National Organization for Women rally last week) and the
new Hitler (according to just about everyone). But how dare anyone be
so impertinent as to insult John Kerry! No one has the right to insult
Kerry, except possibly Teresa, and only on the day she gives him his
allowance.

Several distinguished analysts have suggested that the best rationale
for a Kerry presidency is that it would be a ''return to normalcy'' --
a quiet life after the epic pages of history George W. Bush has been
writing these last three years. Even if a ''return to normalcy'' were
an option, I doubt whether John Kerry would qualify. As we saw in
those two Thursday speeches, Bush takes the war seriously but he
doesn't take himself seriously -- self-deprecating jokes are
obligatory these days, but try to imagine Kerry doing the equivalent
of Bush's gags about mangled English and swaggering. The president is
comfortable in his own skin, which is why he shrugs off the Hitler
stuff. By contrast, Kerry doesn't take the war seriously because he's
so busy taking himself seriously. If ''return to normalcy'' means four
years of a grimly humorless, touchy, self-regarding Kerry presidency,
I'll take the war.

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






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