[per loin]

The Kerry debacle in Wisconsin leaves the media in a delicate situation. The story that they refuse to acknowledge exists, except to say that it has been debunked, almost threw Wisconsin to Edwards, despite predictions that Kerry might win the state with a majority.

So far, Susan Estrich is the only talkface on TV that I've seen with the balls to state that the Dems are running in secret backroom terror over the Kerry sex scandals. To admit now that the scandals are having effect is for the media to admit how much power they have lost to the internet.

[Redcoat LI]

Sentor Sleazeball is hearing footsteps.
I wonder if that non-story about the woman he did not have an affair with influenced the Wisconsin voters.
It would be a shame if the liberal media ignored that story for nothing.

[LADY J]

"For a serious man running for a serious job, Kerry has not made a policy speech since December, when he was nobody."

Could it be because he has no policy speech to give! He is still a nobody - except in his own mind.

I love the reference to the RATS.

[.cnI redruM]

Kerry is a Potemkin. A put-up job. The most frightening thing he could face would be actually winning and having the buck stop at his desk. I'm not sure why he even wants the job. It must be some sick form of inertia.

[Shermy]

It was a stab in the back.

If he felt that way, he could have waited for Wednesday.

Dean might support Edwards...

And Kerry ever more forced into a Clark's well-lubicated arms...

[terilyn]

You really do post the best stuff!

[meema]

bunp to finish reading later

[Paul Atreides]

"CAN I GET A LOVE OFFERING?"

[Lancey Howard]

If Dean had taken the Grossman gas pipe and announced he would quit, I believe his anti-establishment vote would have split 2 to 1 for the Southerner Edwards, putting him way over the top — and in Wisconsin, by yimminy, where voters can hardly understand a word he's saying.

Maybe it's the (political) season and Bill is re-energized or something, but Safire has been churning out some very astute, very entertaining columns lately.

[lonestar]

I think Edwards would be harder to beat and not nearly as much fun as Kerry.

Go, Kerry, go!

[Verginius Rufus]

If the American media had played the Polier story the way that the British media did, Kerry might have come in 3rd in Wisconsin...even with Alex's denial.

It's hard to say which scenario works best for Bush...maybe to have Kerry win most of the remaining primaries, and then for another bimbo eruption to occur.

[Nick Danger]

Although Dean is not a kingmaker, he can be the frontrunner-maker.. By throwing his waning strength (and Web fund-raising) to Edwards, he could help transform a routine Boston coronation into a neck-and-neck race down the homestretch.

I'd prefer the routine Boston coronation, thankyouverymuch.

As I understand this game, delegates are only pledged to vote for the candidate whose name they ran under on the first ballot. If nobody wins on the first ballot, they start to compromise, which rhymes with thunderthighs, and that spells H-I-L-L-A-R-Y.

Let's not get all terrified of Kerry because the media is having multiple orgasms over the guy. They always do that. He's a Democrat, and so are they. But Kerry is McGovern in a Dukakis hat, and he's going to go down the same way.

Let's take that while we can still get it. If Kerry doesn't walk in there with enough delegates to put himself over the top on the first ballot, the nomination will be decided by some serious smash-mouth backroom politics. That process is almost certain to produce Hillary Clinton as the "compromise" nominee.

Go, John, go! All the way to the convention! After that you're toast, but you'll be fun to bat around for a few months.

[Constitution Day]

Indexing to Edwards Watch...