Rats From A Sinking Ship

I was reading the DUmmie FUnnies over at Free Republic. It is truly a sight to behold. Yesterday, the inmates at the Democratic Underground were hailing John Kerry as a "hero," a "fighter," and all that for his crazy rants and refusal to apologize for what he said. Now, however, the tables have turned. They are all over him, mad as heck now that they see that his remarks, and non-apologies afterward, have hurt the Democrats, not helped them. I won't reprint the DUers' remarks here because those people can't form a sentence without profanity and at least one "F" word, but one Freeper response was really good:

DU inmate: Aren't most politicians supposed to be aware...and careful of what comes out of their mouths?

Freeper response: Ohhhhh, but Kerry has EXPLAINED his remarks (trial balloon #3, I think, with the first two being that 1) it was clearly meant to be a jab at the Bush admin, not the troops, and 2) it was just a botched joke). Trial balloon #3 says that he left the word, "us", out of the sentence. He MEANT to say that if you don't study and try to be smart (yadayadayada), or whatever it was, "you get US stuck in Iraq", and so clearly he was talking about Bush.

OK, Senator, I'll be happy to go there with you. Let's see...President Bush went to Yale (like you did) and got an MBA from HARVARD, was twice elected Governor of Texas, and then was elected and re-elected as the President of the United States. He beat YOU during his re-election campaign. And oh, by the way, he also had a better academic record than you did at Yale. AND he is bright enough to have been able to learn how to fly some pretty complex aircraft.

All true. So who is the stupid one here?

JASmius adds: You know what they say - "Stupid is as stupid does."

Speaking of which, have you ever stopped to think of the last time that the President committed a gaffe of any kind? Not mispronunciations like "nucular" or "strategery" or "misunderestimated," but boneheaded utterances that got him in PR trouble? I can't think of a one since he referred to the New York Times' Adam Clymer as a "major league asshole" near a mic he didn't know was on back in the 2000 campaign. And even that was an accident, not a comment intended for public consumption.

For a man so much maligned for his mediocre oratorical skills, Dubya just does not verbally piss himself like Democrats do on a more or less daily basis. There's a lesson to be learned there - or would be if Donks weren't convinced they already know it all, and so insecure about everybody else knowing it as well.