I haven't seen or heard it...
...but I assume from Andrew McCarthy's comments at the NRO Corner this morning that John Kerry has been running his cakehole against Paul Wolfowitz's nomination to head the World Bank. Here's the money quote from McCarthy:
Shall we take a moment to knock the fake Irishman John Kerry on St. Patrick's Day? I guess so. He tried to present himself as Irish to Massachusetts voters (a lot of Irish in Boston, of course), when there's nothing Irish about him. The guy is about as big a goofball drip as you get to find in American politics. He also pretends to be a Roman Catholic, when that's almost as dubious a claim as the Irish thing was. Does he accept the Church's teaching on the sanctity of human life? Ah, no. So it's just a political pretense that he maintains. I'll thank God this morning that Kerry is not President of the United States.
Senator Kerry’s diatribe boggles the mind. The nonsense about “Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz's repeated and serious miscalculations about the costs and risks America would face in Iraq[,]” is ironic, to say the least, on two obvious levels.Like McCarthy, I greatly admire Wolfowitz, who is a stalwart advocate of freedom and a calmly ferocious opponent of tyranny. One would hope that Bush could find a few men or women of his quality to fight judicial tyranny from the Supreme Court, but that's another topic.
First, Senator Kerry himself has made “repeated and serious miscalculations about” every important strategic issue in the last 30 years – wrong about the Vietcong, wrong about Latin America, wrong about the Soviet Union, wrong about defense spending, wrong about terrorism, etc. If he is bent on attacking someone, I’m not sure track record is the way for him in particular to go.
Second, one thing I left off the above list is Iraq – Sen. Kerry was spectacularly wrong about that, too. And Paul Wolfowitz was right.
Shall we take a moment to knock the fake Irishman John Kerry on St. Patrick's Day? I guess so. He tried to present himself as Irish to Massachusetts voters (a lot of Irish in Boston, of course), when there's nothing Irish about him. The guy is about as big a goofball drip as you get to find in American politics. He also pretends to be a Roman Catholic, when that's almost as dubious a claim as the Irish thing was. Does he accept the Church's teaching on the sanctity of human life? Ah, no. So it's just a political pretense that he maintains. I'll thank God this morning that Kerry is not President of the United States.
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