Damage Control!

From The Washington Post:

President Bush last night accused Sen. John F. Kerry of disparaging U.S. troops in Iraq, echoing the 2004 strategy of ridiculing the Massachusetts senator to raise anew questions about Democratic leaders and their commitment to the troops. The highly coordinated White House effort came as Republicans sought to shift the focus away from an unpopular war and GOP scandals that are putting their congressional majorities at risk.

The controversy erupted after Kerry told a California audience on Monday: "Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

First of all notice how the first paragraph covers all of the Democrat talking points. Clearly the primary thrust of the article is to assist the Democrats in doing damage control. Damage control which is needed because the blockhead Kerry violated the DNC's endgame strategy of "going dark" in the final two weeks of the campaign.

As I noted in a previous post the Democrats have figured out that they have lost the nation. They cannot win an election (outside of a few left liberal strongholds like the left coast and the Northeast) by being honest about who and what they are.

To aid in their efforts to hide their true natures Democrat bigshots like Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean have crawled back under their wet rock for the final days of the campaign. Kerry just blew this strategy out of the water. I don't know whether he got so comfortable in front of an audience of fellow leftist wackjobs and forgot there were cameras or if this was his brain-dead way of setting up his 2008 presidential run but all he succeeded in doing was putting Democrat hostility to the military back front and center in the public's mind.

Kerry is now attempting to excuse his remarks by saying that they were directed at the President and not the troops in Iraq. This despite the fact that he never mentioned the President. It might be possible for another leftist moron to weasel his way out of this but it isn't going to work for Kerry. The reason is that Kerry is already on record, more than once, denigrating the nations fighting men.

Kerry first gained the public spotlight when he came back from his truncated tour of Viet Nam and testified before Congress, accusing his fellow servicemen of a veritable cornucopia of atrocities of a kind not seen since the Rape of Nanking. Not content to rest on those laurels he recently accused our troops in Iraq of conducting Gestapo-like midnight raids on the homes of innocent Iraqis in order to terrorize the woman and children.

So this latest outburst of hatred for the men and women in uniform is just another day at the office for the Senator from Massachusetts. The question is what will the affect will this have (other than ending whatever forlorn hope Kerry ever had of becoming president). Rush Limbaugh speculated yesterday that the mainstream media would be doing everything in its power to protect Kerry, not because they care about him (they do not) but because of the potential to derail what they believe (hope) will be the giant "Blue Wave" of Democrat victory next week.

If this WaPo article, which could have been written by a DNC flack (and for all we know actually was) is any indication of what the MSM has in store for us Limbaugh was right - again.


UPDATE:

Kerry issued a statement this morning that he was stopping all campaign activities and returning to Washington so as not to be a distraction.

Translation - The Democrat leadership knocked Lurch down and stuffed a sock in his stupid pie-hole because the moron was proving himself genetically incapable of doing anything other than dig himself in deeper.