More on "Kerry Toons"

Having already inserted his not-inconsiderable foot into his not-inconsiderable mouth by effectively questioning the intelligence of anyone who'd be dumb enough to serve in the U.S. military, John Kerry continues his arrogant attempt to blame others for his casual dissing of military intelligence, proving convincingly that he possesses little in the way of intelligence himself.

The always readable Victor Davis Hanson blasts the Massachusetts Idiotarian with both barrells in today's National Review Online:

Kerry surely must be one of the saddest Democratic liabilities around. Some afterthoughts about his latest gaffe, which is one of those rare glimpses into an entire troubled ideology:

(1) How could John Kerry, born into privilege, and then marrying and divorcing and marrying out of and back into greater inherited wealth, lecture anyone at a city college about the ingredients for success in America? If he were to give personal advice about making it, it would have to be to marry rich women. Nothing he has accomplished as a senator or candidate reveals either much natural intelligence or singular education. Today, Democrats must be wondering why they have embraced an overrated empty suit, and ostracized a real talent like Joe Lieberman.

Hansen ticks off several additional points, each as devastating as the last. Broadening his scope, he cites, and blows away, one of the enduring Democrat memes. Dems are "for the soldier" but "against the war." Oh yeah?

(5) The mea culpa that Democrats are blaming the war and not the warriors is laughable after Sens. Durbin, Kennedy, and Kerry have collectively compared American soldiers to Nazis, Pol Pot's killers, Stalinists, terrorists, and Baathists.

Hansen broadens out further, to examine just where "intelligence" might reside these days. And he doesn't find it on college campuses:

What is striking about visiting Iraq is the wealth of talent there, from privates to generals. Without being gratuitously cruel, the problem of mediocrity is not in the ranks of the military, but on our university campuses, where half-educated professors and non-serious students killing time are ubiquitous. Personally, I'd wager the intelligence of a Marine Corps private any day over the average D.C. journalist. Every naval officer I met at the USNA, without exception, seemed brighter than John Kerry, whose "brilliance", after all, has managed to offend millions of voters on the eve of a pivotal election.

Hansen puts the final nail in the coffin here:

The Democrats should use this occasion to have an autopsy of Kerryism, or this strange new tony liberalism, that has turned noblisse oblige on its head. It used to be that millionaire FDRs and JFKs felt sympathy for those of the lower classes and wished to ensure that the hoi polloi had some shot at the American dream. But today's elite liberals-a Howard Dean, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, George Soros, Ted Turner-love the high life and playact at being leftists simply because they are already insulated from the effects of their own nostrums that always come at someone poorer's expense while providing them some sort of psychological relief from guilt.

We don't mind taking some credit for this kind of observation which we've been making, in various ways, right here in HazZzMat for over a year now. (Although Hansen does it so well!) Dems like Kerry, Kennedy, et. al. are much richer and much dumber than the average American. Their "concern" for the poor and the middle class thus rings hollow, as, were they really "concerned," they'd sell off all their assets and give them to the poor as an ancient Jewish Prophet once suggested.

Fact is, the poor and the middle class are eminently dispensible to the Hate Amerikkka Democrats, serving merely as pawns who underwrite public forums for the classic Big Mouths of the Left. The Democratic Party has basically transformed itself into a cadre of sneering, condescending rich bastards who clearly regard themselves as better than you and I. For which reason, of course, we should all shut up and do as they tell us to.

This essentially adolescent behavior no longer cuts it with an increasing number of Americans, many of whom will be going to the polls next week. Kerry's childish outrage, which leads him to blame others for the loose cannon of his faux intellect, is typical of a vampiric left that feeds off the taxpayers—and lately off the dead bodies of our brave soldiers—to enlarge its own preening ego. The collective left can no longer exercise self-control, and so their anti-American anti-Western culture prlotting is becoming more and more obvious to even the most casual observer.

There's less than a week now before Real Americans will get their opportunity to send a strong message to Kerry and his ilk. The result will be an "October Surprise" that the Democrats will never forget. Until the next election.

Meanwhile, feast on the rest of Hansen's critique right here.