Kerry says: "I Don't Fall Down" (Drudge's title)

New York Times ^ | March 19, 2004 | DAVID M. HALBFINGER

[Syncro]

No, that Eight year old is more of a Man than Kerryokie...(who as it turns out fell quite a few times.)

On Friday, Kerry, his snowboard strapped to his back, hiked past 9,000 feet on Durrance Peak, then snowboarded down the mountain, taking repeated tumbles. Reporters counted six falls, although Kerry was out of sight for part of the descent.

[Liberal Classic]

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

this guy is not going to make it to the ballot in November. They're going to have to shove him off the deck one way or the other.

The truth is that the "dwarfs" were called that for a reason. Only one had any executive experience - and that was Howard Dean governor of a state with fewer people than probably a dozen U.S. cities. Among people under the age of 40, none of them was exactly a household name before the campaign, either - except Lieberman, and he couldn't draw flies in the primaries.

In a PR sense Kerry is stale, having held statewide office for almost 20 years without seriously challenging for national office. And he failed when he tried for the governorship of Mass!

You would think that the party establishment would play the brokering role of producing an electable nominee, but the primary system has eviscerated the convention system. It's not clear that there is a path from here to a brokered convention nomination of an electable candidate, short of violence which would moot the whole exercise.

The truth is that G W Bush is more like John Kennedy politically than any other president has been - and that the Democratic Party has become so ideological that if John Kennedy were resurrected it could not now nominate him.