Yup. At this point, with Teraysa's $ and the liberal press holding his waterwings, Kerry thinks he can walk on water.
Well put. Frustrating and corrosive as is the liberal bias of the media, intelligentsia and popular culture icons, it is a double-edged sword. It's enabled the left to be politically dominant for decades, but at the same time has intrinsically weakened the left while strengthening conservatives.
With slow, Darwinian inexorability, the left have become hothouse flowers, adapted to and dependent on the adulation of the intelligentsia. It's support has meant they didn't have to construct or justify their policy with intellectual rigor, or confront and acknowledge it's failures. Their foibles are discretely overlooked, while conservatives are continually peppered with challenging questions and accusations. Far left extremists (even literal Stalinists and Maoists!) are seldom outed as such by the press, and so influence liberal policy and contribute to the drafting of Democratic talking points, while the right and Republicans have been under constant social compulsion (if it our instinct anyway) to marginalize and repudiate our own wackos and extremists.
A new generation of conservatives, led by the political genius of Bush/Rove, understands these liberal weaknesses and how to exploit them, while the left clings to the old formulas, in fact increasingly reverts to them in spite of the example set by The Rapist's DLC triangulations. Clinton was a kind of Darwinian monster (as well as moral monster). He could thrive -- for a time, at great cost -- outside the liberal hothouse, but most leftists simply can't anymore.