The most precious part of the American Spectator article appears at the end, where Kerry and Teresa run up a $400 dinner tab (wonder who paid?) and inconvenience the whole island. Arrogance, thy name is Kerry.

2 joint press conferences ahh..I mean debates should be max. In all fairness Nader should be there also.

Jackson Ms would be a good location.

Fred:
When I caddied on Nantucket we figured we were ahead of the game if the folks at the Chanitcleer didn't run us over.

The iron links between the punditocracy and the campaign professionals prevent any honest criticism of inept campaigning. I have a hard time believing that Kerry is 'running his own campaign.' First, as a Democrat in Massachusetts, he's never had a really tough campaign in his life. Second, he's never run nationwide. This is a big country with a whole lot of different kinds of places and electorates. Third, he's just not a strong character. His marriages have been to wealthy women with strong personalities, he's an aging gigolo like Jefferson D'Arcy on Married With Children. Would you let your spouse treat you in public the way that Tereza treats him? I'd have long since gone to Divorce Court or rented a wood chipper and bought some trash bags. If he has the self-awareness that G-d gave a sea slug, he'd know that he has to rely on others to do his thinking for him.

Once Kerry brought up Vietnam in the general election and made reference to his service and Bush's purported lack thereof, this race was over. He opened the door to questions about his dubious bravery, he opened the door to the obvious contradictions between his current 'braggart soldier' routine and his anger at American 'war criminals' in Nam, and he opened the door to people asking why we are talking about the 60s when it is 2004, why we are talking about Vietnam when we have troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, why Kerry isn't talking about his 3 terms in the Senate and his accomplishments there, and why Kerry isn't talking about policy prescriptions beyond vague promises of better health care, lower gas prices and limits on outsourcing. He simply makes promises without even the merest scintilla of an idea, the slightest soupcon of a notion of how to achieve his desired ends.

If a nearsighted math geek like me can see these obvious campaign miscues, you would think that even somebody who has run for City Council in Oshkosh could see them. The kind of big-money professionals that Soros' and Tereza's piles can buy him should certainly see that and those professionals certainly don't need to hitch their boats to the 21st century Titanic that is the SS Kerry. It's just blatant incompetence. You'd think that they'd be like rats fleeing the sinking ship.

Bart said "you would think that even somebody who has run for City Council in Oshkosh could see them."

I'm like you Bart, the professionals are failing Kerry bigtime. The only office I ever ran for wasnt much more prestigious than Oshkosh City Council, but anyone oughta be able to see that he is losing traction. Greenfield this morning said he couldnt fathom why Kerry hasnt called on Carville, who seems to be the only Dem strategist with a rudimentary grasp of the electorate--and maybe reality.

Is it not possible that there is a VLWC dedicated to throwing the election to GWB in the belief that this means a clear Democrat win with HRC in '08.

Uncle Bill,

I've said as much in other posts.

If, or as it now seems when, Kerry loses this election, who is there in the Democratic Party to oppose Hillary? Certainly not Weird Al? After November, Edwards will go back to ambulance chasing. Gephardt is gone. Daschle may be defeated. There is no opponent. She'll get a free ride, and she can't win an election any other way. If her opponent is smarter than your average short Welsh herding dog, she loses.

Bill, if you look at all the things Terry McAuliffe has done over the past three years since 9/11 as the party's supposed strategist, you'd have to conclude he's either the most incompetent party chairman in modern history or he's following a "scortced earth" strategy to not only wipe out the 2004 nominee, but pretty much derail any other Democrat besides Hillary of any stature to make her the party's default 2008 choice as of Nov. 3, 2004.

That would make Terry the same type of idiot/evil savant that the Democrats try to paint GWB as, and the same image they tried for years to hang on Reagan. But I think that gives him too much credit -- odds are he's just incompetent, but its an incompetence that has a silver lining as far as his main benefactors are concerned.

McAuliffe is just a stupid crook, one link on the food chain above the guy, while wearing a black mask and a shirt with horizontal stripes, who breaks a jewelry store window and grabs some of the display in broad daylight and then hopes to outrun the cops. Kerry has the delegates. Kerry will select the next chairman. So McAuliffe will be out.

On TV, he seems minimally coherent and as if he's on something. He was probably Clinton's Dixie Mafia connection.

"The kind of big-money professionals that Soros' and Tereza's piles can buy him should certainly see that and those professionals certainly don't need to hitch their boats to the 21st century Titanic that is the SS Kerry. . . You'd think that they'd be like rats fleeing the sinking ship."

They are just hired guns. They are only in it for the money. They will cash those checks and move on to the next payday.

"Kerry will select the next chairman. So McAuliffe will be out.

On TV, he seems minimally coherent and as if he's on something. He was probably Clinton's Dixie Mafia connection."

He was Clinton's guy and Kerry hates him. The chairman will be a Kennedy acolyte, but he will probably find out what happened to Ron Brown.

But if Kerry loses, will he be in a position to select anyone?

The rules of the DNC put him in the position to select the new Chairman.