Wingnut Noise Machine

Republicans know they are going to loose big time on Tuesday. So what do they do? They attack John Kerry. Yup. John Kerry is not even running for office, but he's become the target, again, of swiftboaters and the 101 Wingnut Keyboardists.

Media Matters explains:

At an October 30 speech at a campaign rally in Pasadena, California, Kerry told a group of assembled college students, "Education, you know, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." In response to the uproar over these remarks, Kerry's staff gave reporters what they claim were Kerry's prepared remarks, which make clear that he intended to criticize Bush's intelligence -- not the troops'. From the November 1 Los Angeles Times article on the controversy:

Kerry's office said the Democratic senator had misread prepared remarks, which said: "Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush."

Kerry's explanation that his comments were a "botched joke"

As Taylor Marsh puts it brilliantly: This is what happens when a political party provides an opening for the opposition by sacrificing one of their own.