Watching Kerry's 1971 testimony on C-SPAN. Well, I was watching it. Not anymore, now he disgusts me.
Maybe I wouldn't feel tha way if I hadn't had prior military experience. But I do, and he makes my skin crawl. I can't imagine what that must have felt like, to hear those words parroted back while sitting in a small cell, courtesy of North Vietnam.
I will not vote for this man. I'm not fan of George Bush, I don't like some of his policies and I think he could have handled the war on terror in a different manner. Specifically, I think we compromise too much in our Middle East dealings. But I'm not the man on the scene, and at least I know there are boots on the ground there killing our enemies by the bucketload, and I am proud of them. Kerry strikes me as someone who is not.I feel that by denigrating my old profession in the past but not repudiating it in the present, he does all veterans a misservice.
Maybe it makes me superficial. Maybe it makes me a single issue voter. Nonetheless, he has not earned my respect. I would not have him as commander in chief of people I know, who are still fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, indeed, all over the globe.
Anyone who doesn't like my reasoning, I hereby give you the finger.