From his “magic hat” to “I voted for the 81 billion before I voted against it” to his most recent episode of foot-in-mouth:

You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.

I guess president Bush could say something similar. “You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well — like become President of the United States. If you don’t, you get stuck in the Senate, playin’ with your magic hat.” Heh! But seriously, Kerry’s remark — even if a severely botched joke — is not being taken well by our military personell, and not at all well by those Democrats in close elections for House or Senate seats. If only I could write this succinctly. From Hugh Hewitt:

The American military did not deploy half way around the world to free 50 million people at the cost of 3,000 of their comrades killed and thousands more wounded to allow a has-been politician to insult them and a leftwing media excuse it away. The military does carry on the vast war so that Kerry has the freedom to make such slanders, but I very much doubt if they and those they love or those who admire and respect what they do will be accepting a whitewash any time soon.

But none of us should hold our breath waiting for his-highness Kerry to apologize to anyone, in fact he came out and said that he would NOT apologize to anyone. Michelle Malkin comments that this is SOP for those on the Left, to bash our military, that is:

I devoted an entire chapter in Unhinged to the anti-military animus of the Left. The Democrats have long set the tone for bitter, anti-military sentiment–from liberals in city government declaring “nuclear free zones” and driving military subs away, to liberals banning military recruiters on college campuses and in public schools, to spiteful yellow ribbon-snatchers and veterans’ memorial vandals in your neighborhood. It’s a phenomenon that stretches from Santa Cruz to San Francisco to Seattle to Washington, D.C.

John Kerry’s elitist anti-military smear is no errant remark. It’s emblematic. (…)

So now, the airways of talk radio and cable TV are awash in this new Kerry debacle, instead of Mark Foley, instead of any other issues that the Democrats could hope to use against their opponents. Kerry might just cause them to lose their chance to gain control of either the House or the Senate. At least he gives them an “excuse” for the loss — instead of them having to come to terms with their failure to have a plan for the direction of the country and for their constant hate-Bush rhetoric, they can blame it all on John Kerry. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving, “magic hat” wearin’ guy! (db)

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