| Kerry Trying to Prove He's a Guy |
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August 16, 2004 |
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 RUSH: Get this. Kerry was going to go windsurfing in Oregon to look like a real guy. Democrat candidates have to pass the guy test. So he crawls around on his belly while he's hunting deer instead of just standing up and shooting them. He gets dirty out there and he does all these guy things. He goes skiing and windsurfing. Well, he was going to go windsurfing in Oregon but there wasn't enough wind or something and he ran out of time. He's got a vacation starting, and he's back at the wife's ski chalet in Idaho. But he made a point to tell reporters he was going back to Oregon today or tomorrow to get the windsurfing in because he promised them he would do that. And he said, hey, look, you know, anybody, you know, 250 bucks to fly out there and fly back, that's no big deal, I'm just a regular guy. And you've got to understand who these windsurfers are. These are carpenters and these are plumbers. I mean, he's trying to pass the guy test. It's 250 bucks. You're not flying commercial out there, and even if you did, it would cost more than that.
His trip on the chartered Kerry for President plane, my guess, 50 grand by the time he goes out there and comes back, well, maybe not. It would be close to it, it's a 757, depending with all the stuff he's gonna have on that thing. You have to take the press with him. So I mean it's just amazing to watch the campaign staff around Kerry try to massage what he says at the moment he says it, because they're just afraid he's going to blow it. You know these Democrats try to prove they're guys, and that's always a risky proposition anyway for anybody to try to be something that you're not. Or to try put forth an image rather than just being who one is, and they know that if Kerry steps forward, as he is, the first thing is nobody will notice, and the third thing is, the people that do notice won't like it. He's a northeastern erudite effete snob liberal.
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 RUSH: John Kerry, this is from the American Spectator's The Prowler column today. "John Kerry doesn't believe he's an elitist. In fact, he thinks he's a pretty regular guy. And he's gone out of his way to prove it. He hunts deer by stalking them on his belly, in what many "regular guy" hunters think is one of the oddest methods they have ever heard of (most hunters either use tree stands or remain immobile, or move stealthily through the hunting grounds)." But Kerry is out there crawling on his stomach making all kinds of noise.
"'His approach is definitely something most hunters I know would never do,' says a hunter hobbyist in Idaho. 'Maybe that's what they do in Massachusetts.' And of course, Kerry does other 'regular guy' stuff like pheasant shooting, speeding around in a $200,000 cigarette boat, or on a $2,500 racing bike, or a $10,000 motorcycle, or wind or kite surfing. That was what Kerry planned to do on Saturday in Oregon on the Columbia River Gorge. But low winds and a vacation schedule in Idaho threw those plans off. But not to worry. Kerry intends to fly back to Oregon on Monday for his windsurfing expedition."
Not enough wind. See, the windmills are in the wrong place. The windmills are up there, and they want to build them in Martha's Vineyard and elsewhere. They need windmills at the Columbia River Gorge so Kerry can go kite surfing out there. Now, the cost for flying back to Oregon to fulfill his promise to Oregonians to go kite surfing there, "Kerry told reporters on the plane that any shlub would pay the $250 air fare to travel from one state to another to windsurf. Never mind that Kerry's trip will probably run around $50,000, not counting the costs to the American taxpayer for security and preparations by the U.S. Forest Service. Kerry seemed to realize what he was telling reporters, because he quickly added, 'Look, the guys who do this [i.e., windsurf or hunt pheasant] are local guys, like plumbers, construction workers.'" (Laughing.)
You know, I know a little bit about this. I don't windsurf, but I know people that do. I mean, it's not going to happen. You're not going to find plumbers and construction workers out there unless they're being organized now to be out there windsurfing when Kerry shows up. Nothing against them, don't misunderstand, I have no special affinity for windsurfing or kite surfing or whatever you want to call it. I just have been on vacations with people who do it, and I can tell you where it's done, and you're not going to find plumbers there unless your yacht bathtub or toilet backs up. That's the closest that you're going to find a plumber to a kite surfer or windsurfer. Kerry staffer said, "With this kind of stuff, we're in a no-win situation. Every candidate, especially a Democrat, feels the need to pass the 'guy' test." Now, this is a Kerry spokesman here, folks. This is not me, and it's not anybody else making this up. "Every candidate, especially a Democrat, feels the need to pass the guy test." You know, Gore had to dress up in earth tones and go out there and hire, who, Naomi Wolff? And then Dukakis but on the Beetle Bailey helmet. It happens. "We have him throw a football around, or play softball. The hitch with our guy is that he likes to do stuff that most blue collar guys just don't do. He really thinks windsurfing is a regular Joe kind of thing. He thinks pheasant hunting is a regular joe kind of thing. Cheney pheasant hunts with Supreme Court justices who are considering a case involving him -- is that what 'normal' people do?" (Laughing.) They're worried he's out pheasant hunting because it's what Cheney does. (Laughing.)
This campaign, I'll tell you, if the book is ever written on what really goes on in this campaign, it's going to be one of the most entertaining works of nonfiction that we've ever read.
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Headline: A Mighty Wind
Subheadline: Nose in the Air
Source: American Spectator
Dateline: August 16, 2004
John Kerry doesn't believe he's an elitist. In fact, he thinks he's a pretty regular guy. And he's gone out of his way to prove it. He hunts deer by stalking them on his belly, in what many "regular guy" hunters think is one of the oddest methods they have ever heard of (most hunters either use tree stands or remain immobile, or move stealthily through the hunting grounds). "His approach is definitely something most hunters I know would never do," says a hunter hobbyist in Idaho. "Maybe that's what they do in Massachusetts."
And of course, Kerry does other "regular guy" stuff like pheasant shooting, speeding around in a $200,000 cigarette boat, or on a $2,500 racing bike, or a $10,000 motorcycle, or wind or kite surfing. That was what Kerry planned to do on Saturday in Oregon on the Columbia River Gorge. But low winds and a vacation schedule in Idaho threw those plans off. But not to worry. Kerry intends to fly back to Oregon on Monday for his windsurfing expedition.
The cost? Kerry told reporters on the plane that any shlub would pay the $250 air fare to travel from one state to another to windsurf. Never mind that Kerry's trip will probably run around $50,000, not counting the costs to the American taxpayer for security and preparations by the U.S. Forest Service. Kerry seemed to realize what he was telling reporters, because he quickly added, "Look, the guys who do this [i.e., windsurf or hunt pheasant] are local guys, like plumbers, construction workers."
Aides aboard the plane immediately sensed a gaffe coming and eased in around Kerry as if to remind him that he might be stepping into touchy territory. Although no cameras were running, print reporters were taking notes from the on-the-record conversation.
"With this kind of stuff, we're in a no win situation," says a Kerry staffer. "Every candidate, especially a Democrat, feels the need to pass the 'guy' test. We have him throw a football around, or play softball. The hitch with our guy is that he likes to do stuff that most blue collar guys just don't do. He really thinks windsurfing is a regular Joe kind of thing. He thinks pheasant hunting is a regular joe kind of thing. Cheney pheasant hunts with Supreme Court justices who are considering a case involving him -- is that what 'normal' people do?"
According to another Kerry staffer, advisers sought to tweak Kerry's schedule so that he wouldn't be able to go back to Oregon. But Kerry insisted, saying that if he only gets to do one or two fun things in the coming months, this is one he wants to do.
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