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Here it is:
Note the name of it: “Scaramouche.” Scaramouche is:
A stock character in commedia dell’arte and pantomime, depicted as a boastful coward or buffoon.
Which matches up nicely to Roger L. Simon’s description of Kerry:
Capitano or “The Braggart Soldier” is one of the stock figures of ridicule in commedia dell ‘arte. (I had to memorize them, alas, when John Kerry and I were at Yale.) Actually this figure goes back to Roman times, as does much of commedia, to Plautus and “the swaggering soldier.” So there is nothing particularly new about Kerry in the history of military braggadocio, but it is unique, I imagine, that such a man is running for President of the United States.
(Hat tip to Andrew Breitbart ).
