An Observation of More Recent Vintage
In today's "Inside the Beltway" column of the Wasington Times, John McCaslin reminds us of what Nantucket's Most Desperate Sack of Shit said only seven years ago (emphases mine):

During a 1997 debate on CNN's "Crossfire," Sen. John Kerry, now the Democratic presidential nominee, made the case for launching a pre-emptive attack against Iraq.

So reveals Rep. Peter King, New York Republican, who appeared with Mr. Kerry on the program.

Mr. King says the U.N. Security Council had just adopted a resolution against Iraq that was watered down at the behest of the French and the Russians. Yet the candidate who now criticizes President Bush for ignoring French and Russian objections to the Iraq war blasted the two countries, claiming that they were compromised by their business dealings with Baghdad.

Yep. The guy is a total fucking worm.

"We know we can't count on the French. We know we can't count on the Russians," said Mr. Kerry. "We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it's in our national interest."

Got that, comrade? The only thing more interesting to me than the neurological disorder that causes assholes to think that John Kerry's views on Iraq are actually knowable is the strategic and rhetorical phenomenon Kerry must be witnessing right now in which he knows that what he actually says is irrelevant to his political appeal. What a liberating sensation that must be! To know that, no matter what sort of ignorant, droning, hypocritical, or deceitful shit climbs out of your pie-hole, you cannot lose roughly half of the votes in this country! The pressure's off. Be the self-serving treasonous asshole you've always been, lieutenant! And vive le France!

UPDATE: The guys at the Power Line are not too sure about this quote from Kerry. Maybe I've been hoodwinked by the Moonies. If so, I'll apologize after I stonewall for a week and half. And, then, I'll say the quote was inaccurate, but true.

UPDATE to the UPDATE: Let me just say that somebody ---McCaslin or Peter King or one of their aides--- is a sack of shit for putting out what might, charitably, be called a poor paraphrase of Kerry's words in that Crossfire appearance. It's shit like that that makes dumbasses like me look bad. We've had enough lately of liars in the media and I don't want to track that stuff into my little blog. Thanks.