There He Goes Again

Instapundit : "Kerry's suggestion that the troops in Iraq are dumb failures is not only reprehensible, but false on the facts. In other words, a typical Kerry performance, just in time for the elections. Democrats must be wondering what they were thinking to nominate him in 2004, and why he won't go away now."

Blogger Austin Bay : "Sheesh. Kerry is stuck on Vietnam, almost as stuck on Vietnam as he is stuck on his own self-absorbed, narcissistic bio-mass . . .

"Why didn't Senator Kerry just apologize? 'I'm sorry for what I said. I meant to crack a joke and it came out sounding like an insult to US troops. Forgive me. We owe our defenders so much.' "

Captain Ed takes great umbrage:

"John Kerry has never hidden his contempt for the armed forces very well, not even when he served as an officer in the Navy. Monday the mask slipped a little bit . . . At a political rally for California's Democratic challenger to Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor, Phil Angelides, Kerry told the Pasadena City College crowd to study hard and get an education -- or wind up like the losers in the military:

" '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.'

"Wow. Just wow. It's worth recalling that Kerry at one time aspired to command these same men and women from the White House, and claims to still want to lead them. How would these people react to taking orders from a Commander-in-Chief who believes them to be uneducated, lazy losers?"

Speaking of dumb political moves, check out this video of George Allen's aides tackling a not terribly aggressive heckler.

Meanwhile, the White House is playing the Fox card, big time.

You can't turn on Fox News these days without seeing the president or vice president. Monday was a two-fer, with President Bush and Vice President Cheney appearing in separate interviews. Sean Hannity had the president, Neil Cavuto was with the vice president.

This follows Bill O'Reilly's sit-down last week with Bush, which ran over three nights.

Could the administration possibly, just possibly, be playing to the base in the final days before the midterms?