ABOUT FRANCOIS KERRY

"Whatever he [Francois Kerry]may or may not have intended (and 'I was making a joke about how stupid Bush is but I'm the only condescending liberal in America too stupid to tell a Bush-is-stupid joke without blowing it' must rank as one of the all-time lame excuses), what he said fits what too many upscale Dems believe: that America's soldiers are only there because they're too poor and too ill-educated to know any better. That's what they mean when they say 'we support our troops.' They support them as victims, as children, as potential welfare recipients, but they don't support them as warriors and they don't support the mission.

So their 'support' is objectively worthless. The indignant protest that 'of course' 'we support our troops' isn't support, it's a straddle, and one that emphasizes the Democrats' frivolousness in the post-9/11 world. A serious party would have seen the jihad as a profound foreign-policy challenge they needed to address credibly." -- Mark Steyn

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