The Measure of a Man II: Democrat Defense
1 November 2006Yesterday I wrote about John Kerry’s ignorant remarks about the troops serving in Iraq and his subsequent refusal to apologize for those remarks, choosing instead to blame Republicans and the President for “twisting” his words. Amazingly Kerry actually believes he can convince people beyond the rabid left that what he said meant something other than what the words meant.
Today I write about the response of Democrats to Kerry’s actions. Watching Hannity and Colmbs last night I was amazed to see Alan Colmes defend Kerry, constantly repeating Kerry’s defense as if it was believable! Colmes repeated Kerry’s assertion that it was crazy to think that a war time veteran would ever do such a thing. Selective memory is wonderful thing, isn’t it? Colmes and other Kerry defenders seem to forget that John Kerry has a history of attack our troops in war. Going back to his testimony before a Senate committee during Vietnam, Kerry has repeatedly made baseless accusation against our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. Most recently he accused the troups in Iraq of terrorizing women and children in the dead of night! Democrat supporters pretend these and other Kerry fax paux never happened. Even this Senator John Breaux is on TV defending Kerry along with countless Democrat strategists and politicians.
No one but John Kerry is responsible for the words he spoke. He alone can be credited with the content of his remarks. But as the Democrat nominee for President in 2004, Kerry is not just any Democrat. He was the leader of his party and as such, others in his party must deal with what he says. They, however, along with him, continue to defend him and blame Republicans. As I said yesterday, you can tell a lot about a man by his response to his own mistake. The same is true of groups. Do they take responsibility and deal with the situation or do they attempt to blame others, thereby shaming themselves?
The answer in this case is clear. Like Senator Kerry, the Democrats refuse to deal with the issue, preferring to blame Republicans for the fact the issue even exists. Their presidential nominee said what he said but it’s all Republican’s fault. Yes indeed, you can tell a lot about people and groups by how they deal, or fail to deal, with their mistakes. Like Senator Kerry, the Democrat party doesn’t measure up and it will end up hurting them next week.
They obviously understand, on some level at least, that this is a problem for them. Senator Kerry had numerous campaign stops planned for the coming days, stumping for various Democrat candidates. No more. No one wants to be seen with Senator Kerry. Democrats know he was wrong and they know he should apologize. They just can’t bring themselves to say so.
You can tell a lot about a man or a group by how they deal, or fail to deal, with their mistakes.
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November 1st, 2006 at 10:27 am
I am glad that I am not the only one who feels that John Kerry is an idiot and he says some pretty stupid things. But I also agree that trying to cover up his stupid comments as a bash against Bush is another stupid assertion. We all know what he meant…and as Michelle Malkin said….there are reasons he said what he did….the first reason is…..HE MEANT IT…..
I also have a post on this on my blog:
Tired of all the Liberal Rhetoric out there
http://robertgarding.tripod.com/index.blog
God Bless America
God Bless our Troops
-Robert-
November 1st, 2006 at 11:50 am
You are precisely right Robert. I’ll be writing another post later today entitled, What They Really Believe where I’ll detail how Kerry’s remarks are typical of the liberal attitude toward the military. Senator Kerry did not botch a joke, he made the joke he intended to make his audience got it and laughed. They all think this way and they sometimes forget that most of the country doesn’t.