Well, over the last few weeks I've become quite accustomed to seeing fresh Democrat/Kerry Campaign outrages hit the news cycle ever day, but that sad familiarity doesn't make mercenary and silly claims like the ones made below seem any more palatable...
Now, as J. Forbes Kerry has himself said, he and his wife Theresa Heinz Kerry are a "team", so for this reason, I don't think it's at all unreasonable to look at THK's statements on the campaign trail as having at least some relevance when pondering the question of whether or not J. Forbes himself would make a good president of the United States. For that reason, I will continue to look at the loopy outbursts of my favorite "African American", immigrant, ketchup queen with an alernating mixture of amusement and horror.
Now, in the latest instance of Theresa Heinz "Stepmoney" Kerry idiocy, in addition to other claims, she's stated that she won't be surprised if the Bush campaign is secretly plotting to launch an "October Surprise" by capturing Osama Bin Laden at a politically opportune moment:
Quote:
Heinz Kerry helps Democrats raise $1M at Phoenix event
Mike Sunnucks
The Business Journal
Arizona Democrats raked in more than $1 million Wednesday night at a fund-raiser headlined by Teresa Heinz Kerry.
Heinz Kerry criticized the Bush administration on tax cuts, Iraq and the war on terrorism at the event, which was held at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa.
In regard to the hunt for terror leader Osama Bin Laden, Heinz Kerry said she could see the al-Qaida chief being caught before the November election.
"I wouldn't be surprised if he appeared in the next month," said Heinz Kerry, alluding to a possible capture by United States and allied forces before election day.
The spouse of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry also hit President Bush on Iraq, saying it should not be equated with anti-terrorism efforts and that the current administration chose to create a "hotbed for terrorism" in Iraq when dictator Saddam Hussein did not pose an immediate threat. Heinz Kerry also said she agrees with her husband that a military draft may be reinstated under Bush.
She said she was embarrassed to receive tax cuts advocated by Bush and supports her husband's efforts to roll them back for higher incomes and use those funds for education, health care and deficit reduction.
Link
|
Now, let me see if I can sort out all of the points that Theresa makes in the above snippet from the Business Journal...
So not only (1) might Bush be plotting to institute a secret draft to be instituted after the election, but also that (2) if Saddam was still in the business of funding terrorists and attempting to gain mass murder weapons the national security of the United States would be much more secure, and (3) she is "embarrassed" to recieve her Bush tax cuts (although Geraldine-Ferraro-like, she refuses to make public her tax returns), and (4) she's claiming that the Bush administration is putting our troops and citizens at risk by refraining from capturing Osama Bin Laden until it is politically expedient to do so until right before the election.
Now, Heinz-Kerry has made a lot of mess in the press over the last couple of months by labelling her critics as "scumbags", by saying that only an "idiot" would disagree with her husband's health care plan (a plan that has yet to be substantively explained or proposed), and by saying that "the Common Man" knows that she isn't "some kind of Wicked Witch".
Now these past gaffes got a lot of negative attention in the press and online, but I would assert that they are far less damning of the character of the "stepmoney" than the Michael Moore like claims she is presently indulging herself in. Does she really believe that the Bush administration is plotting to reinstitute the draft? Does she really believe that we are endangering American lives by holding back from capturing Bin Laden until a date closer to the election?
In my own humble opinion, I would say that if she really does believe these outrageous claims she's probably a damned, purblind fool, and if she doesn't, she's damning herself as a crass, bald-faced liar. In either case, I strongly hope the American voting population recognizes and rejects these latest absurd claims as the conspiracy theory, hallucinatory pap that they are...