You’ve got to hand it to John Kerry. It takes a rare candidate to single handedly blow two elections in a row. How DID Karl Rove get him to do this?

Kerry belittled our troops; there is simply no question about it. Oh wait, apparently there is some question. Liberal media critic and all around good guy Dan Kennedy is asking,

Isn’t it obvious that John Kerry was referring to President Bush â?? and not to American troops â?? as “stupid”?

In a word, NO.

Scrambling to defend the indefensible, Kerry not only insults his supporters, but all American’s intelligence,

“I apologize to no one for my criticism of the president and of his broken policy.” …If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they’re crazy.”

Do you feel crazy after watching that? Is he calling â??his good friendâ? John McCain crazy?

Kerry “owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country’s call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education.”

Is he calling the National Commander of The American Legion crazy?

“As a constituent of Senator Kerry’s I am disappointed. As leader of The American Legion, I am outraged,” said National Commander Paul A. Morin.

Let’s pretend, for a moment, that we believe Kerry when he says it was simply,

“a botched joke about the president and the president’s people and not about the troops.”

What kind of a moron makes jokes about someone being stupid, when that someone was a better student than he was?

The transcript shows that Kerry’s freshman-year average was 71. He scored a 61 in geology, a 63 and 68 in two history classes, and a 69 in political science. His top score was a 79, in another political science course. Another of his strongest efforts, a 77, came in French class.

Insert your own French joke here. And how about graduate school, surely JFK the Second went to Harvard Law, right? Wrong. He went to Boston College, still a fine school, but no Harvard. George W. Bush, the dummy, went to Harvard Business School.

John Kerry’s not even smart enough to know when to avoid an argument he can’t win,

The simple fact is that John Kerry would not be in such trouble if he did not make his name on the national political stage by trashing our troops. But he did.

He’s finally Swiftboated himself. They’ll still love you here in squalid Massachusetts, but you are toast nationally.

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