Tim Blair

And he told journalists "Be vewy vewy quiet. We're huntin' wabbits, hur-hur-hur-hur".

What next, "youse" in NJ and "y'all" in Tennessee?

Now, now. Let's perfectly accurate here: the good Senator specifically said: "Can I get me a hunt'n license here?"

:^P

In a stunning display of cognitive dissonance, Senator Kerry attempted a Jar-Jar Binks accent at a Star Trek convention...

I'm exhausted from this election, I can't STAND the sight and sound of him anymore, I just can't. PEOPLE FROM BOSTON DON'T TALK LIKE THAT, he's PRETENDING AGAIN!!! PRETENDING TO BE A REGULAR PERSON, IT'S ALL PRETEND!!!!! HE"S ALWAY'S PRETENDING EVERYTHING!!! I'm sorry, I'm getting upset. C'mon election day, I'm counting down the hours.

The really sick thing is that Kerry's little hunting junket wasn't a common election pander, like going to a ball game. According to some press accounts, Kerry is poised to win a significant fraction of the NRA/hunter demographic, which would ordinarily vote Republican. The reason: they don't like Bush's "pro-tree hugger" policies, and there have been hard words on that subject within hunter organizations recently. When Kerry goes hunting, therefore, he's making a very specific appeal.

All this begs the question: what species of idiot thinks Kerry is going to be friendlier to NRA/hunter types than Bush was?

Get it right guys for God's sake. What he said was:

"K'n ah git me a hunt'n lascence hure"

Audio from Limbaugh http://rhhardin.home.mindspring.com/rushcut.huntin.ra

He dropped the reflexive so that the locals would understand him. He threw us off though with ``huntING.''

I saw on Yahoo that Kerry says he's going to pursue Al Quaeda with the same determination with which he pursued the Viet Cong.

Four more months, Osama, four more months.

The reason: they don't like Bush's "pro-tree hugger" policies,

Huh? Lefties keep telling me that Bush is strip-mining the planet and destroying the environment for oil of some such.

"...campaign entourage in tow..."

Hillary Clinton: It takes a village to raise a child.

John F. Kerry: It takes an entourage to get a hunting license.

Maybe he should have bought a spiffy looking flight suit to go huntin' in...

"Huh? Lefties keep telling me that Bush is strip-mining the planet and destroying the environment for oil of some such."

Quentin -- that's what the pissed off hunters are supposedly saying. I'm not commenting on whether it's a rational complaint. (Other than wondering what they must be smoking.)

Ummmmm, in some parts of the US you can buy hunting and fishing licenses at grocery stores, especially in the more rural areas.

Kalroy

""Huh? Lefties keep telling me that Bush is strip-mining the planet and destroying the environment for oil of some such."

Quentin -- that's what the pissed off hunters are supposedly saying. I'm not commenting on whether it's a rational complaint. (Other than wondering what they must be smoking.)"

What's confusing me is that I've heard hunters saying they won't vote for Bush because his policies aren't tree-hugger ENOUGH. They know they need wild land, especially federal land, to hunt on.

Kerry's channeling Jed Clampett!

Tim,

I can be somewhat sympathetic with Tuhrayza. I've had Wendi's chili, once. Of course, nothing can compare to the chili they served in the Nortel cafeteria in Ottawa, Ontario. Just one look, and I wouldn't touch the stuff. It reminded me too much of something my dog did, just before he died. Never trust a Canadian to make chili.

Memo to Kerry campaign managers:
Keep watching the Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Dallas, Petticoat Junction, etc. while feeding Senator Kerry sound bites. The Senator tried to pander to some Houstonians during a long-ago fund raiser. He said he could "jaw bone" with somebody. WTF does that mean? You can use "jaw" or "bone" as an action verb or a noun, but I've never heard anyone but him use that phrase. As a Texan, I'll send you something you CAN use.
"I'm fixin' to see mah ass kicked".
Signed, an early straight ticket votin' Republican.

Speaking of Kerry channeling people...

Anybody ever notice that Kerry is a dead ringer for the walking corpse that kills "Johnny" in the graveyard at the beginning of Night of the Living Dead?

OK, this is obscure. But somebody must remember it.

bc -- I'd give good green money to see Kerry use "bone" as an action verb at a campaign stop.

The goose was plastic!

"Can I get me a hunting license?"

Eek. Reminds of the time when a lily-white, small-town-raised friend of mine whose sole experience of the inner city was a two-week spring break project wrote in an email that he was "giving a shout out to my homies." It hurt just to look at it, because he obviously didn't know what the hell he was doing. Same for Kerry. I await with interest his attempts to say "Y'all."

How could I forget, Mike: "Johnny's got the keys!!!" Yes, JfK does look like the perp, doesn't he?

At least he has used a gun in defence of his country,if that is what the vietnam war was all about.
Speaking of vietnam,what is the difference between Iraq and vietnam?
Bush had a plan to get out of vietnam.

Bush had a plan to get out of vietnam.

I'm not quite sure what that's supposed to mean, in light of the fact that Bush tried to volunteer for service in 'Nam via the National Guard, but we do know Kerry had not just one, but two plans to get out of Vietnam. One involved three purple hearts and the other Cambodia...

"The goose was plastic!"
just like the turkey Bush served to the troops in his Thanksgiving photo-op"

There's no need to worry about US troops because they're tough customers, and well fed ones at that. They were clearly delighted to see the President during his visit, as were the sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Plus, they're in favor of re-electing the President by a 3-to-1 margin. I'm just hoping that their votes get counted, and I have no doubt that Americans of both political parties can agree on that. No doubt at all...

Hey Tim, does Fu deserve his own highlight post for parroting the plastic turkey myth, or will that have to wait until somebody more important does it?

Fu, I guess you're new around here, but you've just made sure that everyone who reads this blog will point and laugh at you when they read your post. And they'll probably laugh every time you make a post in the future, as well. Just thought you should know.

Fu = The new Puce

Ha Ha Ha! FU! BEST IMITATION OF BRAIN-DEAD LEFTIST EVER!!!

Speaking of vietnam,what is the difference between Iraq and vietnam?
Bush had a plan to get out of vietnam.

What's the difference between Bush and Mark Latham?

Bush has won an election.

Boom! I'll be here all night!

If Bush wins, it will be a tragic day for the earth.

If Kerry gets a gun licence, it will be a tragic day for mother earth.

Hmmm... I'm as confused as a Labor party front bench.

Nobody disrespects me! Not Snake Plisskin, not nobody!

marklatham:

I just can't track you lefties. If Bush was the foot dragging, Vietnam-evading, military-avoiding panty-waist, butt-pawing, substance-abusing slacker you say he is, you should be kissing his ass. That was your model for the ideal American male until Kerry came along.

FU:

The inside truth on FU is that the "U" doesn't stand for "You", it stands for "Up".

"Yokel Pandering?" What the hayull is we'm s'posed t'do with them funny teddy-bears?

"The goose was plastic!"
just like the turkey Bush served to the troops in his Thanksgiving photo-op

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

Thanks, FU, I needed a good laugh this weekend.

And FU? Rhod hit the nail on the head with "Up".

Someone here asked if Kerry would say "youse" in New Jersey and any variation of "y'all" in southern or midwestern states. He might have to say "Eh, hoser?" around the Midwestern Candadian border, "You cahn't get theah from heah" in New Hampshire and "Get the f*** away from me you piece of sh**" if he was back on Beacon Hill in Boston.

A local lad tells a story that Kerry saved his life once, like he did Rasmussen. A couple red-faced thugs were beating him up near Kerry's home in Boston. Kerry walked by and said "That's enough."

I read the goose he shot was 40 FEET away- he** even I can hit something with a pistol that's only 40 feet away. Bet he said "pull" too. (so he could brag about getting it in flight)

They looked an awful lot like Canada Geese to me. Can you legally shoot them in Ohio? Around here you need to push your way through them to get to a watershed of any kind. Easy targets.

Rhod, easy targets are what Kerry lives for, especially after his 4 months in Vietnam. He was there, didn't you know?

The Real JeffS:

(extended laughter)

KERRY WAS IN VIETNAM???!!!

Kerry's speech affectations tend to come and go. During the last debate he twice clearly said "ide-er", a decidedly J.F.Kennedyesque pronunciation of "idea." I'm not the only one who heard; Jay Nordlinger noted it too on National Review Online. That one probably backfired because it only reminds the voter of his New England (read liberal) background. Funny how when Kerry does this it's either barely not noticed at all, or it's charming. When Bush uses a Texanism like "nucalur" it's proof that GWB's a drooling idiot.

Paul:

I expect some lefty etymologist would disagree with me...and undoubtedly they exist, but I was born and raised in New England, long enough ago to remember ethnic neighborhoods, idioms and peculiarities of language.

In my experience, "ide'er" for "idea" was extant in working class Eastern European neighborhoods, with a similar usage by Irish kids of all classes. The substitution of "for" for "because" existed side by side with "ide'er".

That JFK used it always surprised me because it seemed to originate in another "class", as it were. Kerry seems to slip in and out of localisms depending on the time of day and who he perceives his audience to be. He is, for the most part, without quirks of "accent" except the Thurston Howell pomposity he picked up in private schools.

If he said "ide'er", for that moment he was chanelling John Kennedy. As small is this seems to be, it is an example of how utterly vapid this man is.

My sister-in-law's mother is from Brooklyn and attachs the "-er" to all sorts of things. Sof-er for sofa, etc. She kept mentioning the "akiter" was doing this, and the "akiter" was doing that. Wha?? ...oh, Akita. That took a few weeks. Anyway, I kept waiting for JFKerry to start talking about "Cuber," as in the island nation. Another JFKism.