Defeat America first?

We may need to postpone the presidential election by a week. It's gonna take at least that long to analyze how thoroughly wrong John Kerry is for America. The latest example came today as the former war protester proclaimed that George W. Bush should apologize for Iraq just as John F. Kennedy "apologized" for the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

From the Associated Press:

"When the Bay of Pigs went sour, John Kennedy had the courage to look America in the eye and say, `I take responsibility, it's my fault," Kerry said, referring to a bungled invasion of Cuba in 1961. "John Kennedy knew how to take responsibility for the mistakes he made and Mr. President, it's long since time for you to start taking responsibility for the mistakes you made."

Forget that John Kerry would like to win Florida, yet just reminded an electorally significant number of Cuban Americans why they naturally distrust Democrats in the White House. Ignore the fact that in Iraq we did not send in an assault team of expatriot Iraqis and decide not to back them up. No in Iraq we went in, we kicked ass and took names, and we have stayed to clean out the nest of vipers who either have remained in hiding or who have crossed over the sands from other countries to engage in terror. Forget that President Bush did not go wobbly, and has pledged to see this thing through until victory is won for the Iraqi people.

Forget that the Cuban people are still in political and social bondage 43 years after the Bay of Pigs survivors were thrown into the harshest of Fidel's confinements.

As Kerry Spots Jim Geraghty says, "The brilliance of this strategy eludes me."

Deacon at Power Line calls it "The joy of defeatism."

We have noted before how John Kerry seems to regard Sept. 12, 2001 as a shining moment in American history because much of the world was united in feeling sorry for us. He has now found another high point -- the day that his hero, JFK, took some responsibility for his ignominious failure to keep his promise to support the Cuban ex-pats he sent into battle against Castro. And Kerry apparently remains quite proud of that magic day when he himself took responsibility, before a Senate Committe, for the crimes of the "army of Genghis Khan." One shudders to imagine what great new moments await our country if Kerry becomes president. Quite possibly a Kennedy-style betrayal of the Iraqis, for starters.

Finally, Val Prieto nails it down with a post that deserve a full read, not an excerpt, entitled "Brave men spin in their graves."