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Brad,

So where are we on our deal?  (Ford for Fine)

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On 11/1/06 11:47 AM, "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> The 2006 election cycle is over for me - I voted. Let the chips fall where
> they may!  This Kerry thing is overblown like everything is during an
> election run-up, but, the guy is a first class pri$5k, nerd, uh, loser. The
> donkeys have some talented people on board, they're just not hanging around
> the fringes.  Evan Bayh, Richardson, Obama,  anyone?
> 
> Here's Professor Hanson's observations:
> 
> 
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> 
> *Wednesday, November 01, 2006
> 
> Kerryism* [Victor Davis Hanson<%61u%74ho%72%40%76i%63t%6f%72h%61nson.c%6f%6d>
> ]
> 
> Kerry surely must be one of the saddest Democratic liabilities around. Some
> afterthoughts about his latest gaffe, which is one of those rare glimpses
> into an entire troubled ideology:
> 
> (1) How could John Kerry, born into privilege, and then marrying and
> divorcing and marrying out of and back into greater inherited wealth,
> lecture anyone at a city college about the ingredients for success in
> America? If he were to give personal advice about making it, it would have
> to be to marry rich women. Nothing he has accomplished as a senator or
> candidate reveals either much natural intelligence or singular education.
> Today, Democrats must be wondering why they have embraced an overrated empty
> suit, and  ostracized a  real talent like Joe Lieberman.
> 
> (2) How could Kerry possibly claim that he was thinking of the uneducated in
> the context of George Bush, who, after all, went to Harvard and Yale?
> 
> (3)     Some of the brightest and most educated Americans are not only in
> the military, but veterans of Iraq. Two of the best educated minds I have
> met-Col. Bill Hix and Lt. Col. Chris Gibson, both Hoover Security
> Fellows-were both Iraqi veterans. What is striking about visiting Iraq is
> the wealth of talent there, from privates to generals. Without being
> gratuitously cruel, the problem of mediocrity is not in the ranks of the
> military, but on our university campuses, where half-educated professors and
> non-serious students killing time are ubiquitous. Personally, I'd wager the
> intelligence of a Marine Corps private any day over the average D.C.
> journalist.  Every naval officer I met at the USNA, without exception,
> seemed brighter than John Kerry, whose "brilliance", after all, has managed
> to offend millions of voters on the eve of a pivotal election. If the
> Democrats lose, it will be almost painful to watch the recriminations
> against Kerry fly.
> 
> (4)     This is not the first, but third, time he has denigrated soldiers in
> the middle of a war-and there is a systematic theme: John Kerry's assumed
> superior morality allows him to pass judgment from on high about supposedly
> lesser folk who become tools of a suspect military: thus we go from
> limb-loppers and Genghis' hordes to terrorists to dead-beats. The only
> constant is that the haughtiness is always delivered in the same
> sanctimonious, self-righteous, and patronizing tone.
> 
> (5)  The mea culpa that Democrats are blaming the war and not the warriors
> is laughable after Sens. Durbin, Kennedy, and Kerry have collectively
> compared American soldiers to Nazis, Pol Pot's killers, Stalinists,
> terrorists, and Baathists.
> 
> (6)   The problem is that Kerry is not just a senator, but the most recent
> presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, and thus in some sense,
> especially given the diminution of Howard Dean, the megaphone of the entire
> party.
> 
> (7)      His pathetic clarification, as he blamed everyone from Tony Snow to
> Rush Limbaugh, displayed the same Al Gore derangement syndrome, and thus
> raises a larger question: what is it about George Bush that seems to reduce
> once sober and experienced liberal pros to infantile ranting?
> 
> (8)       And why is the supposedly lame Bush so careful in speech, and the
> self-acclaimed geniuses like a Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, or Howard Dean
> serially spouting ever more stupidities? For all the Democrats' criticism of
> George Bush, I can't think of a modern President who has so infrequently put
> his foot in his public mouth, and, by the same token, can't think of any
> opposition that on the eve of elections seems to have an almost pathological
> death wish.
> 
> The Democrats should use this occasion to have an autopsy of Kerryism, or
> this strange new tony liberalism, that has turned noblisse oblige on its
> head. It used to be that millionaire FDRs and JFKs felt sympathy for those
> of the lower classes and wished to ensure that the hoi polloi had some shot
> at the American dream. But today's elite liberals-a Howard Dean, Al Gore,
> Ted Kennedy, George Soros, Ted Turner-love the high life and playact at
> being leftists simply because they are already insulated from the effects of
> their own nostrums that always come at someone poorer's expense while
> providing them some sort of psychological relief from guilt. Poor Harry
> Truman must be turning over in his grave-from bourbon, cigars, and poker to
> wind-surfing and L.L. Bean costume of the day says it all.
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