Kerry Lashes Out

Regime change? Yeah, we’re all pretty familiar with Kerry’s little quip in New Hampshire last Wednesday. Is it unpatriotic, or even worse treasonable? I’m not so sure that it’s either one, but Tom Delay said it best when he called the comments “desperate and inappropriate.” What kills me though is Kerry is taking it so as to make it a personal crusade. I love this little line:

“If they want to pick a fight, they’ve picked a fight with the wrong guy,” Kerry said in a telephone interview.

OOOH!!! Now the anti-war movement is magically personified in the deity known as John Kerry. Now I’m all fired up, John! Good politics I suppose, but only if you want the stoned undergrad vote. Who knows, it could be helpful in replacing that Irish-Catholic vote he just lost be claiming to be Irish. . . and not having a drop of Irish blood in him. I suppose not even highly-decorated anti-war ‘Nam vets are beyond pandering when they have to.

Yes I’m being harsh on the guy, and not because he’s a Democrat. If you’re going to make a statement like that, that’s fine – say it and back it up. But don’t backpedal and make yourself a victim of the criticism you justly brought upon yourself. Spin is one thing, but making comments to the effect of “now you’re questioning my patriotism *sob* ” is beyond weak, it’s exactly the kind of low pandering that turns people away from politics altogether.