Dissecting John Kerry

After losing to GWB in 2004, we all kind of hoped that John Kerry would just go back to being the Senate's longest-winded blowhard. When I say we, I mean Donks and GOP'ers alike.

Unfortunately that didn't happen. Just like the defeated Al Gore, the press still fawns attention on these two bloviators as if what they say is of some type of import.

It's beginning to look as if Kerry will be running in 2008 and he's setting up his newest strategy:

GRINNELL, Iowa - Sen. John Kerry accused the Bush administration on Saturday of stirring up a "spirit of intolerance" to suppress dissent over the war in Iraq.

Kerry said the Bush administration is targeting opponents of the Iraq war in much the same way he was attacked for protesting failed policies in Vietnam in the 1970s.

Kerry was attacked for protesting policies during the Vietnam war? What exactly did these attacks consist of, Senator? Just because someone thinks you're a misguided moron for what you believe does not mean they're attacking you, they're attacking your views. To normal, intelligent people, that's evident. To a whiny lefty, it's not so much. BTW, did you know John Kerry served in Vietnam? He has movies and several versions of the same scene to prove it, because in war, you can't have action shots of you from a bad angle.

"Dismissing dissent is not only wrong but dangerous when America's leadership is unwilling to admit mistakes, unwilling to engage in honest discussion and unwilling to hold itself accountable for the consequences of decisions made without genuine disclosure or genuine debate," said Kerry, D-Mass.

There was a long debate, I believe too long but I am just a humble blogger. The Bush folks went to the UN and everything. They even built up a "unilateral" coalition. You debated the issues in front of the American public during your failed presidential bid, Senator. The American people heard your dissent and decided they just couldn't deal with seeing and hearing you for four years.

Kerry, the Democratic nominee for president in 2004, spoke at Grinnell College. During his visit to Iowa he repeated his call for a deadline for American troops to be pulled out of Iraq by the end of the year.

"The Iraqis have shown they only respond to deadlines," he said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I think you've got to be tough here."

You see, this is a great strategy. You call for the troops to be pulled and when Bush does decide the time is right, Kerry can say to the American people that he was a leader in getting them home. It's a win-win situation for Kerry. BTW Senator, tough would be releasing your miltary records that you promised to allow the American people to view two years ago. That would be tough.

"Once again, we are imprisoned in a failed policy," he said. "And once again we are being told that admitting mistakes, not the mistakes themselves, will provide our enemies with an intolerable propaganda victory."

Kerry always hearkens back to the failed policies of Vietnam. Of course he never discusses who implemented those poor policies. By playing the Vietnam angle, he's appealing to the aging hippie generation, a bloc of voters without the numbers to put him over the top. He has to appeal to the younger voters who don't know about the Vietnam era and to be honest, probably don't care. These younger voters can't be bothered to learn how to find Louisiana or Iraq on a map, what makes the good Senator think they will vote for him because he protested a bygone war?