Tammy Bruce: The Kerry Meltdown

The Kerry Meltdown

Here I am, finally, with the post on the extraordinary morning filled with the meltdown of John Kerry. I expanded a great deal on this during Tammy Radio while the blogosphere did a great job assessing, commenting, and managing the unfolding story. I think most of what needs to be said has been said. Kerry's original comment speaks for itself, and his follow up statement was so bizarre I had my radio producer double check to make sure it wasn't some Onion-like parody hoisted upon us. Unfortunately for Kerry, it was all too real.

John McCain demands an apology, Tony Snow castigates Mr. Teresa Heinz with aplomb, and now the president has come out with some wonderfully strong words about the fiasco. Courtesy of the great folks at Hot Air, you can play the footage of the president's salient remarks, over and over again. :)

While we have many disagreements with the president, he is at his best, and I am reminded why I love him, when he comes out bold and clear as he has with this. I saw my Cowboy today, I loved it, and was grateful, once again, that he's The Man.

Now this is one October Surprise no one can blame on Karl "International Man of Mystery" Rove. No matter how much Kerry tries to point to everyone else, insisting we look at everyone except him, the bottom line is, this is about him, and only him. Giving the Dems a microphone is like giving them a few feet of rope.

Pajamas has details, commentary and the text of Kerry's presser today, with which they give the "Short version—blames the White House, Republicans, GOP, people who haven’t served in the military, Iraq yea-sayers, who “lie, distort and misled Americans.”

Yeah, the repercussions of him being an ungrateful, arrogant elitist is everyone else's fault but his. he will not apologize, and he should. If he doesn't it will get bigger and bigger, giving the Republicans a Godsend of a distraction within a week of the election.

Not only was Kerry astoundingly insulting, he is also just plain wrong about the intellectual prowess of our military. The fact of the matter about our highly educated military is brought to us by the Heritage Foundation. Their Just four days ago thy released a new research report on the national Security, focusing on our military:

"Who Are the Recruits? The Demographic Characteristics of U.S. Military Enlistment, 2003–2005," which describes the most educated and intellectually successful military in the world--ours.

In general, the higher quality of recruits compared to equivalent civilian population has held steady during the war years.

The previous study noted the significant difference between the national recruit high school graduation rate of 98 percent and the national youth graduation rate of 75 percent. This strong distinction continues among the 2004 and 2005 recruits when compared to the national educational attainment levels reported by the Census 2004 American Community Survey (ACS).[4]

In 2004, 92.1 percent of active-duty officer accessions held baccalaureate degrees or higher.[5] From 2000 to 2005, between 10 percent and 17 percent of active-duty officer accessions held advanced degrees, and between 35 percent and 45 percent of the active-duty officer corps held advanced degrees.[6] This indicates that officers continued their education during the course of their military service...

Additionally, in the most recent edition of Population Representation in the Military Services, the Department of Defense reported that the mean reading level of 2004 recruits is a full grade level higher than that of the comparable youth population.[8] Fewer than 2 percent of wartime recruits have no high school credentials.

In other words, the men and women serving this nation, defeating the enemy and bringing liberty to the world, enter the service at every level--enlisted and officer--with higher educational achievements and more intellectual skills than their peers in the civilian population.

On this Halloween, we're reminded that the fact that John Kerry and that moonbat wife of his got so close to the White House is about as scary as real life can get.

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Posted by Tammy · October 31, 2006 03:37 PM · Permalink
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Well, it's an October surprize, but in the right direction. This will help the GOP in the elections, no doubt.

Posted by: Craig C at October 31, 2006 04:33 PM

It just wouldn't feel like Halloween without Lurch dropping by. That John F'n Kerry is quite a charmer, isn't he?

Posted by: Checkpoint Charlie at October 31, 2006 05:39 PM

Tammy ... Thanks for having me on the show today. You did a great job with the story. As I said on the radio, this was classic Kerry. He might as well have just said "I was for the troops before I was against the troops." Although I suspect he was never "for" the troops. By insulting our heroes and heroines in the military, he succesfully completed his audition to become Secretary of Defense under President Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Posted by: ConnecticutBruce at October 31, 2006 05:43 PM

John Kerry is a vile human being, a liar, and a coward. He insults our troops in the field (during a month when over 100 of them gave their life for this country) and then turns around and lies about what he just said to save his political hide. This is the same moron who came back from Vietnam and joined forces with Hanoa Jane Fonda and accused our troops in Vietnam of war crimes. He has also accused our troops in Iraq of war crimes just like he did 30 years. The man is a coward and a traitor and when I think of how close he came to winning the election in 2004 it makes my skin crawl. I don't want an apology from this guy, all I want is for him to shut up and crawl back underneath the rock where he lives.

Posted by: SteveOk at October 31, 2006 07:00 PM

Kerry's behavior can be perfectly explained, "Malignant Narcissism"! He bragged to high school clasmates, that he would one day be President, took a typewriter and a movie camera to Vietnam, threw his Medals (actually someone elses)over the White House fence, marries only rich women and he will appologize to no one, for anything, EVER. This man has no business in politics.

Posted by: templarWahrheit at October 31, 2006 07:53 PM

After reading John Kerry's statements about how Republicans are afraid to debate him and that they prefer debating straw men to real men, I did the only thing I could think of doing.

I challenged John Kerry to a debate next time he's in Iowa.

No word yet from the Kerry camp, but I figure someone who is such a skilled debater wouldn't mind taking me on, who is still a registered Republican but closer to a classic liberal. If the debate happens, I will let the good folks here know.

Posted by: TLindaman at October 31, 2006 09:14 PM

The real John Kerry showed himself in the swift boat book, a superficial opportunist. It was a crime the abuse that the authors had to endure just for telling the truth. They saved us from finding out how really bad Pres. Kerry would have been.

My favorite Kerry saying: Who among us in not a fan of Nascar?

Ralph

Posted by: irregardless at October 31, 2006 11:02 PM

My favorite Kerry saying: Who among us is not a fan of Nascar?

Ralph

Posted by: irregardless at October 31, 2006 11:02 PM

And I bet he still wonders why he lost the election...he's such a jerk...

STEVEOK summed it up for me...good one!

Posted by: Marie at October 31, 2006 11:32 PM

John Kerry is just the gift that keeps on giving. Has he been snacking on Terasa's gin soaked raisins?

The true face of JF'n Kerry was shown to the world today, he could have diffused it, but his press conference in Seattle just showed how stupid and egotistical that fake is.

This man was the selected nominee of the Democratic party! The party has abdicated it's soul to idiots who want America to become like the dhimmitude Europeans.

Posted by: Skeptic at October 31, 2006 11:33 PM

John F'n is still living in the 60's and he still thinks we are fighting the Vietnam war with a drafted military. What a dufus! Our military is all volunteer and is full of educated patriots...something Mr. Hienz would know nothing about!

Posted by: SLABBOTT at November 1, 2006 02:42 AM

The worst part of this is some members of the military had probably already mailed their ballots from overseas. I'm sure a lot of them have a different perspective on who to vote for now.

Posted by: Craig C at November 1, 2006 05:02 AM

If John Kerry really had been joking on Monday night, here is what he should have said yesterday in his news conference:

"Last night when I was addressing the students in California, I committed a most unfortunate slip of the tongue. While I meant to say that President Bush "got the country stuck" in Iraq, it came out wrong. I meant no disrespect to our military and I apologize."

But he didn't ... and that shows me that either
1. he is too arrogant to do the right thing
2. he really DID mean to disparage the troops
or
3. both

I vote for number 3.

Posted by: ConnecticutBruce at November 1, 2006 05:17 AM

True to form, the establishment media is now attempting to present this as being about President Bush's (politically motivated) criticism of Kerry's (asinine!) comments and John Kerry bravely fighting back.

John Kerry is a buffoon.

Posted by: Kimj7157 at November 1, 2006 07:40 AM

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