Sen. John F. Kerry . . . Political Coward
Oh, my, gosh! Sen. John F. Kerry hung tough . . . for all of six days! The Great Equivocator is now calling for the removal of all U.S. troops from Iraq by July 1, 2007. Look just two posts below and notice that on June 14 the Great Equivocator was calling for surrender on December 31, 2006. In six days he moved six months. Why?, you ask. Are you ready for this? To get more support for his resolution. If you have to hunt around for the "right" date, what kind of leadership is that? Heck, submit a questionnaire to the entire Senate, compile the results and then draft the resolution . . . if all you want to do is have a resolution supported by a majority. Finding the longest line and then jumping in front of it does not make anyone a leader, well, the liberal media thinks it makes Sen. Kerry a leader.
I'd prefer my leaders to identify the best solution for any question or problem and then lobby their peers to support the best solution, but then I guess I have a strange idea of leadership.
The letter:
Editor,
The Great Equivocator, Sen. John F. Kerry, freely admits that he is pushing the date for removal of all troops from Iraq by six months for the purpose of building “support” for his cut and run resolution (Kerry extends troop withdrawal date, June 20, A2).
Okay, if Sen. Kerry honestly thinks that December 31, 2006 is the proper surrender date but is now extending it by six months to build support, how, exactly, does he ask the U.S. servicewomen and servicemen to be the last servicewomen and servicemen to die for his political cowardice? For, surely, brave women and men will die in Iraq between December 31, 2006, his original date, and July 1, 2007, his equivocation date.
Will the Senator push it another 6 months if he still does not have the votes? Will he push it again and again and again; he of so much demonstrated conviction. Or, will the Senator finally show some leadership and influence people? That’s what real leaders do. (End of letter.)
Oh, my, gosh! Sen. John F. Kerry hung tough . . . for all of six days! The Great Equivocator is now calling for the removal of all U.S. troops from Iraq by July 1, 2007. Look just two posts below and notice that on June 14 the Great Equivocator was calling for surrender on December 31, 2006. In six days he moved six months. Why?, you ask. Are you ready for this? To get more support for his resolution. If you have to hunt around for the "right" date, what kind of leadership is that? Heck, submit a questionnaire to the entire Senate, compile the results and then draft the resolution . . . if all you want to do is have a resolution supported by a majority. Finding the longest line and then jumping in front of it does not make anyone a leader, well, the liberal media thinks it makes Sen. Kerry a leader.
I'd prefer my leaders to identify the best solution for any question or problem and then lobby their peers to support the best solution, but then I guess I have a strange idea of leadership.
The letter:
Editor,
The Great Equivocator, Sen. John F. Kerry, freely admits that he is pushing the date for removal of all troops from Iraq by six months for the purpose of building “support” for his cut and run resolution (Kerry extends troop withdrawal date, June 20, A2).
Okay, if Sen. Kerry honestly thinks that December 31, 2006 is the proper surrender date but is now extending it by six months to build support, how, exactly, does he ask the U.S. servicewomen and servicemen to be the last servicewomen and servicemen to die for his political cowardice? For, surely, brave women and men will die in Iraq between December 31, 2006, his original date, and July 1, 2007, his equivocation date.
Will the Senator push it another 6 months if he still does not have the votes? Will he push it again and again and again; he of so much demonstrated conviction. Or, will the Senator finally show some leadership and influence people? That’s what real leaders do. (End of letter.)
posted by Zack at 7:53 AM
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The process ZacklyRight criticizes is the democratic process as it's been practiced in Congress for as long as I know. There is a very fine line between effective leadership, and effective legislating (getting the best possible legislation passed, which of course is in the eyes of the beholder). ZacklyRight will undoubtedly suggest that, as is his wont, the Great Equivocator has cut and run too quickly on the proposal he initially made, but I merely point out the thin line on which ZacklyRight is walking.
P.S. as an aside, those wishing to buy ZacklyRight a Christmas (not X-Mas) gift this holiday season, might consider the following (which I've cut and pasted from his second favorite publication, the NY Times):
"An A-to-Z Book of Conservatism Now Weighs In
By JASON DePARLE
Published: June 21, 2006
WASHINGTON, June 20 — It has red states and blond pundits; home schoolers and The Human Life Review; originalists, monetarists, federalists and evangelists; and no shortage of people named Kristol.
It is a big deal, in terms literal — 997 pages — and metaphorical. Few insults have stung the movement's thinkers as much as the barb from Lionel Trilling, the literary critic, who said conservatives had no ideas, "just irritable mental gestures."
A half-century later, 251 contributors have weighed in, not so irritably, with a four-pound response.
"Feel the heft of it," said Lee Edwards, a former aide to Senator Barry Goldwater, who appears in the volume with a byline and an entry. "It's more than a book. It is, if you will, an estimate — it shows the maturation of the conservative movement."
And a timely one, at that. Sixteen years in the making, American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia appears with American conservatism, the political movement, warring over its future direction.
"We've gone from history's adversary to destiny's child, but governing has brought a whole new level of challenge," said Jeffrey O. Nelson, publisher of ISI Books, the conservative press in Wilmington, Del., that produced the encyclopedia. Criticizing what he called the "big education, big spending, big war, big government" conservatism of Republican leaders, Mr. Nelson said he hoped that the book, whose list price is $35, would help the movement return to its small-government roots.
Conscience, it is demonstrably true that Sen. Kerry is both unacquainted with leadership and legislating. Six days! I'm not the one that has made an entire empty career out of saying, "how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" My goodness, if this war is wrong, he should be calling for an immediate pull-out, if that is what he believes. I run into people that hate the USA PATRIOT Actof 2001 but love Sen. Kerry. Well, guess what, he voted for it. "Oh, he would have been tarred and feather as unpatriotic if he voted against it." Then, please stop telling me he's anything but a coward. Leaders lead. They stand up. They make an argument (ohmigosh, I'm in the movie A Few Good Men). Followers, cowards and prima donnas act exactly like Sen. Kerry. Again, hi-jacking the spot at the front of a line doesn't make you a leader of that line. Anyway, in 20 year career, there is not a single piece of legislation that the Senator can claim as significant that he also sponsored or co-sponsored. During the debates, he mocked President Bush for lack of proper air cargo inspection, "how safe do you feel about that?" he asked the viewers. You guessed it, no legislation had been drafted and submitted by the Senator. His last attempt was some minimum milage requirement for automobiles and his own Party rejected it. He's so lame. He's a political coward. Here's a chair, Senator, sit down. Six bloody days and he folded his argument. I just finished David McCullough's, 1776; there's a story about some great men.
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