The Fallout

The furor over Senator Kerry's comments have resulted in cancellations of his scheduled appearances with Democratic candidates today. At least there's a few Democrats out there with some common sense God gave my dogs.

Kerry was scheduled to appear with Bob Casey in Pennsylvania today and that will not happen. Likewise it seems, all his appearances including ones in Minnesota and Iowa as well have been tabled:

ABC news is reporting that Senator John Kerry has cancelled all appearances today - including a campaign stop in Philadelphia with Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Bob Casey.

In the meantime, the surreal-ness of it all continues. One listener of Don Imus has alleged that the good Senator had to check himself and still almost managed to make the obligatory Vietnam reference this morning:

You have got to get the end of Kerry's comments on the Imus program this morning. He said 'they owe us all an apology for the disaster that is V.... Iraq'. You have to listen
closely but he started to say Vietnam, I swear. Check it out.

Meanwhile, Victor Davis Hanson eviscerates Kerry this morning with these comments. At the same time, Jonah Goldberg's summation of things states the case pretty clearly; Kerry is an ass:

But now he's questioned the sanity, the integrity and the manliness of anybody who could have possibly taken him the wrong way. That means, in effect, that he's calling all these servicemen who understandably took offense at the plain meaning of his words, wusses and nutters. That makes Kerry a tool of the first order. And, if he apologizes now, with some Gilda Radneresque "never mind," it will once again reinforce his metaphysical toolishness. The guy thinks he can be president and he thinks he's doing what the "fighting Dem" base wants him to do. The problem is he has basically radiated himself with the isotope Asinine-90 and the only way the rest of his party can protect itself from radiation poisoning is to sequester the guy in some lime-pit for 10,000 years until his asininity half-life deterioates to managable levels.