Phil Brennan
Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Hillary must be ecstatic. Her party's voters have produced a sure loser, which opens the door for her to waltz through to the nomination in 2008. She could even help Kerry lose by becoming his running mate and sabotaging his campaign from the inside. And don't put that past this scheming, duplicitous woman. Don't, for that matter, put anything past her.

Now I realize that our splendid media are all agog with the idea that a fellow elitist is going to be pitted against the hated plebian George Bush, and they will do everything in their power to help the oh-so-elegant Mr. Kerry win. But thanks to the alternative media, talk radio and Fox News, their ability to misinform the electorate has sharply dwindled.

They simply can no longer succeed in their routine cover-ups. As Mr. Shakespeare told us, "Murder will out." As will scandal and, ultimately, the truth, no matter how hard the New York Times and other such modern voices of Karl Marx try to suppress it.

Ignore a story deemed unfavorable to their side and lo and behold, here comes Matt Drudge, Fox, NewsMax.com, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Reagan and Sean Hannity.

Which brings us to the aristocratic gigolo and half-Boston Brahmin who, as you must know, since he keeps telling us over and over, served in Vietnam for a ghastly four months, committing atrocities and getting "wounded" the three times required for him to bug out and go home to slander the Americans he left behind and to further the cause of the enemy.

If I were George Bush, I would be thanking the Lord for giving me such an opponent. For months on end Kerry had been slandering him as he fought for the nomination, and Mr. Bush kept quiet, much to the consternation of many of his supporters, who thought he should have been firing back.

But Mr. Bush had sense enough to heed the advice of William Prescott, the American officer at the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American War for Independence, who told his men: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."

They weren't in sight until John Kerry had all but wrapped up the National Democratic Socialist Abortion Party nomination. Once that happened, Kerry was fair game and George Bush unlimbered his artillery and began to respond to Kerry's negative campaigning with ... gasp ... some of his own negative campaigning.

And what happened? Kerry quickly wilted under fire, exposing his Achilles' heel - his sheer inability to withstand legitimate criticism. In short, he panics under harsh criticism and says and does stupid things such as bragging that he's the favorite candidate of unnamed foreign leaders and sneering at a questioner who wanted to know the names of those foreign leaders, shouting at the man that it was none of his business.

Kerry may not be stupid, but he has a habit of doing and saying stupid things. He is also proving unable or unwilling to deal with many of his vulnerabilities, such as his post-Vietnam consorting with the enemy. His strategy seems to be to ignore questions about his dalliances with the likes of Hanoi Jane Fonda and giving aid and comfort to an enemy in the process of killing Americans in Vietnam.

And the more he tries to turn his back on this shameful period of his life, the more questions will be asked by the voters and the louder will be the demands that he release his military records, as did George Bush, including the details of his "wounds' that got him out of the war. As many veterans of the war have noted, there is something very fishy about the whole thing.

Kerry is going to have to explain the inexplicable, such as seeming always to be on the opposite side from America, as he was when he was an ardent useful-idiot supporter of the so-called nuclear freeze movement engineered and promoted by Moscow back in the Cold War days.

The freeze would have frozen in place the Soviet edge in troops and nuclear weapons in Europe. As Ken Timmerman recalls in his new book, "The French Betrayal of America," then-French President Francois Mitterand described the freeze movement by noting that "The Euromissiles are in the East, while the pacifists are in the West." Among them was useful idiot John Kerry.

Anybody who has dealt on a personal level to any extent with America's WASP elite - of which Kerry is a certified member, thanks to his mother's side of the family - recognizes that despite the Swiss finishing schools and elegant WASP breeding schools such as Groton and Yale, there is a large and dangerous gap in their education and experience.

They haven't got the street smarts acquired by the majority of Americans in their formative years. This is the disability of a class who could say with Marie Antoinette, "Let them eat cake," without having any idea what an outrage that was.

John Kerry may be multilingual, a self-proclaimed poet and student of the esoteric, but he lacks the basic knowledge most of his fellow Americans learned in the school of hard knocks. This has proved to be a fatal flaw for members of his class seeking the presidency, as the late Adlai Stevenson could have told us.

George Bush escaped falling into the WASP nest thanks to his down-to-earth Texas upbringing. Yale simply could not erase the good ol' boy lessons he learned down there above the Rio Grande.

So did FDR - his painful disability and the incredibly vicious ill treatment he received at school from his elitist classmates hardened him and taught him how to cope with the real world and outsmart it. The WASP elite called him a "traitor to his class," but what he was really was an escapee from his clueless class.

John Kerry is what he is, a member of that class, and what he is now about to become as a result is a loser.

Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s.

He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.

He can be reached at phil@newsmax.com

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