A “Ron Note:”
Regarding Coulter’s
statement: One has to stand in awe of Kerry’s military
service, I for one won’t “stand in awe.”
Kerry was in Vietnam
for four months. The vast majority of us who served there and lived to
tell about it did at least 12 months time…and the vast majority of us
received nothing more that a Vietnam service ribbon.
I think there is something
very phony about Kerry and his medals. I look forward to the real story
coming out.
Excerpt from recent
Ann Coulter essay on John Kerry
Kerry was indisputably
brave in Vietnam, and it’s kind of cute to see Democrats pretend to admire
military service. Physical courage, like chastity, is something liberals
usually deride, but are tickled when it accidentally manifests itself
in one of their own. One has to stand in awe of
Kerry’s military service 33 years ago. Of course, that’s where
it ends, including with Kerry — inasmuch as, upon his return from war
in 1970, he promptly began trashing his fellow Vietnam vets by calling
them genocidal murderers.
But if Bush can’t
talk to Kerry about the horrors of war, then Kerry sure as hell can’t
talk to anyone about the plight of the middle class.
Kerry’s life experience
consists of living off other men’s money by marrying their wives and daughters.
For over 30 years, Kerry’s primary occupation has been stalking lonely
heiresses. Not to get back to his combat experience, but Kerry sees a
room full of wealthy widows as “a target-rich
environment.” This is a guy whose experience dealing with tax problems
is based on spending his entire adult life being supported by rich women.
What does a kept man
know about taxes?
In 1970, Kerry married
into the family of Julia Thorne — a family estimated to be worth about
$300 million. She got depressed, so he promptly left her and was soon
seen catting around with Hollywood starlets, mostly while the cad was
still married. (Apparently, JFK really was his mentor.) Thorne is well-bred
enough to say nothing ill of her Lothario ex-husband. He is, after all,
the father of her children — a fact that never seemed to constrain him.
When Kerry was about to become the latest Heinz family charity, he sought
to have his marriage to Thorne annulled, despite the fact that it had
produced two children. It seems his second meal ticket, Teresa Heinz,
wanted the first marriage annulled — and Heinz is worth more than $700
million.
Kerry claims he will
stand up to powerful interests, but he can’t even stand up to his wife.
Heinz made Kerry sign a prenuptial agreement, presumably aware of how
careless he is with other people’s property, such as other people’s Vietnam
War medals, which Kerry threw on the ground during a 1971 anti-war demonstration.
At pains to make Kerry
sound like a normal American, his campaign has described how Kerry risked
everything, mortgaging his home in Boston to help pay for his presidential
campaign. Technically, Kerry took out a $6 million mortgage for “his
share” of “the family’s home” — which was bought with
the Heinz family fortune. (Why should he spend his own money? He didn’t
throw away his own medals.) I’m sure the average working stiff in Massachusetts
can relate to a guy who borrows $6 million against his house to pay for
TV ads.
Kerry’s campaign has
stoutly insisted that he will pay off the mortgage himself, with no help
from his rich wife. Let’s see: According to tax returns released by his
campaign, in 2002, Kerry’s income was $144,091. But as The Washington
Post recently reported, even a $5 million mortgage paid back over 30 years
at favorable interest rates would cost $30,389 a month — or $364,668
a year.
The Democrats’ joy
at nominating Kerry is perplexing. To be sure, liberals take a peculiar,
wrathful pleasure in supporting pacifist military types. And Kerry’s life
story is not without a certain feral aggression. But if we’re going to
determine fitness for office based on life experience, Kerry clearly has
no experience dealing with problems of typical Americans since he is a
cad and a gigolo living in the lap of other men’s money.
Kerry is like some
character in a Balzac novel, an adventurer twirling the end of his mustache
and preying on rich women. This low-born poseur with his threadbare pseudo-Brahmin
family bought a political career with one rich woman’s money, dumped her,
and made off with another heiress to enable him to run for president.
If Democrats want
to talk about middle-class tax cuts, couldn’t they nominate someone who
hasn’t been a poodle to rich women for past 33 years?
Don’t forget:
John Kerry is strong
on defense
He voted to kill the
Bradley Fighting Vehicle
He voted to kill the
M-1 Abrams Tank
He voted to kill every
Aircraft carrier laid down from 1988
He voted to kill the
Aegis anti aircraft system
He voted to Kill the
F-15 strike eagle
He voted to Kill the
Block 60 F-16
He voted to Kill the
P-3 Orion upgrade
He voted to Kill the
B-1
He voted to Kill the
B-2
He voted to Kill the
Patriot anti Missile system
He voted to Kill the
FA-18
He voted to Kill the
B-2
He voted to Kill the
F117
In short, he voted
to kill every military appropriation for the development and deployment
of every weapons systems since 1988 to include the battle armor for our
troops. With Kerry as president our Army will be made up of naked men
running around with sticks and clubs.
He also voted to kill
all anti terrorism activities of every agency of the U.S. Government and
to cut the funding of the FBI by 60%, to cut the funding for the CIA by
80%, and cut the funding for the NSA by 80%. But then he voted to increase
OUR funding for U.N operations by 800%!!!
Is THIS a President
YOU want?
I SAY NO!