March 20, 2004

WANNA BET HE'S BACK BY MONDAY?:

Some Democrats Say Kerry Must Get Back on the Trail (DAVID M. HALBFINGERand ADAM NAGOURNEY, 3/21/04, NY Times)

[A]s Mr. Kerry disappeared to regroup on the slopes of Sun Valley this weekend, he left Democrats recoiling at the disparity between his campaign in the works and that of the White House, which has devoted six months to preparing for this moment.

As the White House greeted Mr. Kerry's claim on the Democratic nomination with an avalanche of advertisements and attacks, the challenger seemed at least a little spent as he faced the challenges of raising money, building a staff, responding to all of what his aides called the "incoming," and retooling his campaign to appeal to a general election audience.

Après ski, of course.


If nothing else, this vacation indicates the Democrats have written off the South and NASCAR dads.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 20, 2004 9:26 PM
Comments

No doubt the Kerry campaign planned this vacation to show off Kerry's connections to Hollywood liberals. They're building on stories earlier this week about George Clooney buying his Italian mansion for $7.8 million, having heard about it Kerry's neighbor Brad Pitt.

Posted by: pj at March 20, 2004 11:07 PM

Speaking of campaign ads; Moveon.org's Danish ad was cute. I hope they do more like it and spend as much of Soro's money as they can.

Posted by: genecis at March 21, 2004 1:11 PM

Where the heck does a middle-aged man find the time to learn how to snowboard?

Posted by: Rick T. at March 21, 2004 4:01 PM

Rick T.,

Are you consider 60 years-old guy a middle-aged man? He is senior citizen in my book.

Posted by: Paul at March 21, 2004 4:35 PM

Anybody who's thirty or younger now has at least a 50/50 chance of seeing 120, so 60 would be "middle-aged".

Right now, Kerry has a life expectancy of about twenty-five more years, given that he's a rich, well educated, white male.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at March 21, 2004 11:31 PM

Michael: Oh, yeah, I'm expecting to make it to 120. I'll probably celebrate 98 on my faster than light scoutship, with my family, cyborg mistress, and best friends from Epsilon Eridani IV onboard.

How bad is it that the Times is making French jokes about M. Kerry?

Posted by: Chris at March 22, 2004 7:51 AM
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