Will Kerry's Gaffe sway voters?

[Hypnogator]

David Letterman sees it: "John Kerry is such a bad politician that he loses elections when he isn't even running!"

Kerry's "misfired joke" serves as a reminder of the elitist, disdainful view that many prominent Democrats take of our armed forces. The one good thing about Iraq (as opposed to Viet Nam) is that our country is by and large fully behind our servicemen and women.

What's your opinion? Will voters be more or less inclined to vote Democratic now that they've been reminded of how the Democratic leadership really feels about our armed forces?

 

[fourays2]

yup HUGE foot in mouth moment. I just wonder what the real "october surprise" is that karl rove has planned and whether it will still get rolled out this weekend.

 

[Biker]

I don't believe that it will make a difference one way or another.

Biker

 

[Joe Demko]

First, he was mocking GWB, not the troops. Read the transcript of the speech and you will see the context.
Second, Kerry has no future in comedy and should avoid trying to be funny, as it seems to backfire on him.
Third, does this really have anything to do with RKBA?

 

[BigG]

Right off the Demo talking points hot sheet as usual, Golgo. The public heard Kerry's disdainful, scurrilous remarks about the troops wrong, hmm?

 

[Thin Black Line]

Wow, ppl are still talking about this? This has created far more of a
stir than when this earlier "gaffe" came out:

In [General] Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy. Kissinger often took up a post outside the doorway to Haig's office and dressed him down in front of the secretaries for alleged acts of incompetence with which Haig was not even remotely involved. Once when the Air Force was authorized to resume bombing of North Vietnam, the planes did not fly on certain days because of bad weather. Kissinger assailed Haig. He complained bitterly that the generals had been screaming for the limits to be taken off but that now their pilots were afraid to go up in a little fog. The country needed generals who could win battles, Kissinger said, not good briefers like Haig.

<snip>
On another occasion, when Haig was leaving for a trip to Cambodia to meet with Premier Lon Nol, Kissinger escorted him to a staff car, where reporters and a retinue of aides waited. As Haig bent to get into the automobile, Kissinger stopped him and began polishing the single star on his shoulder. "Al, if you're a good boy, I'll get you another one," he said.

BTW, Kissinger was a Republican serving Republican administrations. So I
guess we should give some more historical context to what elitists in
both parties really think about the military shouldn't we?

 

[Joe Demko]

BigG
I don't know why it pleasures you to use my old screen name, but knock yourself out with that if you find it fun.
I've probably told you this before, but I'll go through it one more time:
1. I'm a Libertarian, not a Democrat.
2. Every day is free-fire day on Democrats here, if I seem to pick on your Republican favorites, it's because I think they don't get enough of the right kind of attention.
3. This thread isn't really about RKBA and trying to irritate me still doesn't make it about RKBA.

You may now return to your GOP apologia, BigG; but try reading the entire speech first.

 

[bouis]

Maybe it was a self-depreciating comment -- after all, Kerry's grades at Yale were worse than Bush's, and Kerry voted for the Iraq war, at least, before he voted against it.

Oh, wait, right, hypocrite, yeah.

The GOP was already going to hold onto both houses of Congress. Maybe this "gaffe" will remind a few voters of what the alternative is and save a couple more seats, but probably not many more.

 

[Art Eatman]

Drifting and wandering...

, Art