October 24, 2004

HELL HATH NO FURY:

Cooking His Own Goose: George W. Bush needed to shock and awe to prove he was no wimp. John Kerry shot and ate. (MAUREEN DOWD, 10/24/04, NY Times)

In yet another attempt to prove to George W. Bush that he is man enough to run this country, John Kerry made an animal sacrifice to the political gods in a cornfield in eastern Ohio last week.

Four dead geese are not too high a price to pay for a few rural, blue-collar votes in a swing state. As long as Mr. Kerry doesn't slip and ask Teresa to purée the carcasses into foie gras.

Tromping about in a camouflage costume and toting a 12-gauge double-barreled shotgun that shrieked "I am not a merlot-loving, brie-eating, chatelaine-marrying dilettante," the Democratic nominee emerged from his shooting spree with three fellow hunters proclaiming, "Everybody got one, everybody got one," showing off a hand stained with goose blood.

One of my first presidential trips was going to Texas one weekend to cover Ronald Reagan hunting with James Baker at Mr. Baker's ranch. President Reagan came back proudly empty-handed. He didn't want to shoot any small animals.


Mr. Kerry did, to his credit, keep the polls close enough that he's only going to get a week of his side turning on him.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 24, 2004 10:05 AM
Comments

But they will be riding his butt for the next 4 years, worse even than they did to Al Gore.

What is Kerry going to say when he rises in the Senate to oppose the GOP (3 or 4 months from now)? I wouldn't be surprised to hear someone shout "Sit down, you prissy fool!". Or, "Shut up, we've heard it all before!".

Such comments won't be coming from the gallery.

Posted by: jim hamlen at October 24, 2004 12:20 PM

Sure, sure. But does he shoot prarie dogs?

Posted by: bigfootsix06@yahoo.com at October 24, 2004 1:04 PM

If he'd make it legal for me to shoot the geese in the parks around here, I'd vote for him.

Posted by: David Hill, The Bronx at October 24, 2004 2:08 PM

Does anyone think Kerry will be hurt enough that he might lose his next senatorial election?

Posted by: PapayaSF at October 24, 2004 7:23 PM

Papaya:

Bill Weld, Paul Cellucci, and several others are already lining up to run against him, but why would he stay in the Senate?

Posted by: oj at October 24, 2004 7:37 PM

Why would Kerry stay? I'd guess inertia.

Posted by: PapayaSF at October 24, 2004 10:11 PM

MoDo's column is more evidence the internal polling numbers at the Times must not look as good for Sen. Kerry as the stuff the paper and its parter, CBS News, are sending out to the general public. Writing stuff like this a week before the election and if Kerry wins, Maureen is already off the initial 'A' list party circuit for Washington at the start of the new administration and, dagnabit, she's been waiting four long years for celeb-filled D.C. swoirees to come back in style.

Posted by: John at October 24, 2004 10:54 PM
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