Kerry Does the Time Warp Again

John Kerry is on the 2008 presidential campaign trail. He spoke at Grinnell College in IOWA on Saturday.

I'm sure Kerry thinks fondly of that fly-over state, reflecting on his triumphant derailment of the deranged Howard Dean in the 2004 Iowa caucus.

No offense to Grinnell College, but I think its location was a factor in Kerry's speaking engagement at the 1,500 student institution. Also, Kerry may have been lured by the Peace Studies Program, reminding him of his Vietnam protesting glory days.


Inexplicably, Kerry is relying on the failed strategy of his 2004 campaign, invoking Vietnam to bash Bush.

I think it's about money. Kerry knows that the aging activists of the 1960s are willing to donate to an anti-war candidate. He's trying to get a piece of Russ Feingold's territory and appeal to knee-jerk anti-war Leftists.

GRINNELL, Iowa -- The Massachusetts Democrat said the Bush administration is targeting opponents of the Iraq war in much the same way he was attacked for protesting failed policies in Vietnam in the 1970s.

"Dismissing dissent is not only wrong but dangerous when America's leadership is unwilling to admit mistakes, unwilling to engage in honest discussion and unwilling to hold itself accountable for the consequences of decisions made without genuine disclosure or genuine debate," Kerry said.

He added, "The spirit of intolerance for dissent has risen steadily, and the habit of labeling dissenters as unpatriotic has become the common currency of the politicians currently running our country."

That's absolutely false. When has Bush said that dissent equals a lack of patriotism?

I don't recall him ever saying anything remotely like that, ever.
Dems bring up the patriotism thing all the time. Perhaps they feel guilty.

...During his visit to Iowa he repeated his call for a deadline for American troops to be pulled out of Iraq by the end of the year.

"The Iraqis have shown they only respond to deadlines," he said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I think you've got to be tough here."

I bet it bugs Russ Feingold when Kerry calls for an end of the year deadline for troop withdrawal. Russ said it first!

Kerry is a pretender.

..."Once again, we are imprisoned in a failed policy," he said. "And once again we are being told that admitting mistakes, not the mistakes themselves, will provide our enemies with an intolerable propaganda victory."

And once again, Kerry is imprisoned in a time warp, talking about Vietnam.

Someone should inform him that thirty-five years have passed. Global dynamics in the post-9/11 world are dramatically different from those during the Vietnam War era.

Kerry's failure to acknowledge those important differences indicates that he cannot be trusted to handle the terrorist threat.
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From Jewish World Review, there's a bit of news about Teresa Heinz Kerry.

In a piece about illegal immigration and the May Day protests, Greg Crosby writes:

What the television stations didn’t show you was the true “diversity” of the marchers who participated in the parades, marches and demonstrations. (Interesting, too, that these demonstrations were held on the day that is traditionally a socialistic, Communist holiday.) Yes, there were plenty of poor Mexican illegals in the streets, but they weren’t the only ones. Gang members were brazenly out in force too, as were many other militant youth groups, marching in packs of ten to twenty-five and carrying signs that read “Viva La Revolution” and waving upside down American flags.

The Communist front group, ANSWER, was out there along with other far-left hate groups. Teresa Heinz, wife of Senator John Kerry, has donated money from the Heinz Foundations to support the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, a radical group that has joined with the Open Society Institute to help organize the recent protests by illegal immigrants. The Open Society Institute is backed by billionaire leftist George Soros.

...While there may have been a party-like atmosphere among some, clearly many marchers had an attitude of hatred. Anti-Bush signs were everywhere and many young people were dressed in guerilla warfare clothing, wearing hoods and looking not unlike terrorists of the Middle East. But the networks never showed you any of that.

For the most part, the media spun (and continues to spin) the debate as being either pro or anti immigration and ignoring the fact that this is really all about obeying the laws of the land and protecting our boarders from invaders. Of course no reasonable American is against LEGAL immigration, it is the illegals that bug people. And it is not about race, either. But the media and the leftists would like to spin it that way too.

FACT: Teresa is a radical Leftist, a rich radical Leftist.