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Mark Steyn: Kerryâs just parroting his speechwriters
Senator Flippy has now decided this line is nonoperative. As he told the chaps at the (Wall Street) Journal, ââYou know, I called a couple of times to overzealous speechwriters and said âLook, thatâs not what Iâm saying.â Well, itâs good to know the senator has finally found a way to neutralize the flip-flop question. Many of us assumed that, when he was for the war and then he was against it and then he was for it again, that he kept changing his mind. But now itâs possible he was just being entirely consistent -- heâs always been for it, or against it, itâs just that his ââoverzealous speechwritersââ kept putting the wrong words in his mouth. Boy, those Benedict Arnold speechwriters who take the hard-earned money of decent, honest American politicians and salt it away in their Cayman Islands bank accounts, there oughta be a law against it. Given their uncanny ability to make Kerry say what he doesnât mean at six campaign stops a day, is it possible these overzealous speechwriters are part of the ââRepublican attack machineââ? Who is John Kerry? They werenât his medals he threw away, just some non-name World War II vet he happened to bump into. Those arenât his four gas-guzzling SUVs in the drive, just ones owned by his ââfamily.ââ Theyâre not his words coming out of his mouth, just words wholly owned and operated by employees of a subsidiary unit of his wifeâs holding company, Benedict Arnold Heinz Kerry Campaign Rhetoric Inc., registered in Bermuda. It takes a big man to blame everyone around him. Which is at last a rationale for the Kerry campaign: If youâre the kind of fellow who likes blaming your underlings, at least when youâre president thereâs no end of underlings to blame. Steyn is on a roll. Read the whole thing. Posted by: RWV 2004-05-09 |
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