Not that I wanna...

indulge vulgar Freudianism or anything, but does anyone else out there think that George Bush suffers from a sort of displaced penis envy when it comes to John Kerry's many medals from the Viet Nam War?
The current GOP propaganda line which includes the usual "troubling" doubts about JK's first purple heart and a "spontaneous" appearance by an anti-Kerry group of Viet Nam vets has all the hallmarks of repressed homoerotic longing.
If Bush can't have what Kerry earned in battle, then the President (ever the spurned lover) will tear our candidate to pieces like an enraged drag queen.
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And not for nothing but who are these hammerheads that La Famiglia Arbusto hired to staff "Swift Veterans for Truth" or whatever it is...?
The media is spinning this as an attack by "every one" of Kerry's superior officers in Viet Nam.
In fact three of the heavy hitters in this group , Lt. Colonel James Zumwalt, Captain Adrian Lonsdale, and Lt.Commander George Elliot (who nominated Kerry for the Silver Star) all but ENDORSED Kerry during his hard fought re-election fight
in 1996!
Now of course these yobs are all up in arms about Kerry's work with the Viet Nam Veterans against the War....activities that they knew all about in 1996.
If they were that hung up about Kerry's antiwar activities then why did they endorse and defend him?
It's all on the front page of today's Boston Globe if you want tor ead about it.
Honest to Ghod Karl Rove must be desperate to dredge up a howler like this.
Oh I'm under no illusions here, the headline for the next week will all be about "NEW TROUBLING ALLEGATIONS" and all like that.
The simple truth is though, you've got to walk some hard miles in the Bush White House before you can find anyone with as heroic a record as John Kerry's was in Viet Nam.
He earned every medal while our current President was drunk before noon in the Texas Air National Guard's infamous "champagne unit".
That remains the starkest contrast between the two men...and I devotely hope the American people hear about it soonest.