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Man oh man, this incident with the Secret Service guy is huge, in my opinion. It shows how thin-skinned, vain, intemperate, and just plain stupid Kerry is. It is a real window into the guy's soul.

W and Rove are going to absolutely mop the floor with this guy. He cannot open his mouth without saying something stupid. He can't stop acting like an idiot even when he's on vacation and his biggest challenge is observing the most elementary rule of skiing safety: you are responsible for avoiding people in front of you.

I'm telling you people, 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. He's going to drag the Dems to an absolute unmitigated disaster.

Watch for Hillary to pull a Lautenberg!

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If he had any sense whatsoever he would be out there profusely apologizing for his comments to the Secret Service Agent. I think you are right, that he is not going to make it onto the ballot at this rate. Here comes Hillary!

Since this was published in the NYT, it gives the other members of the media permission to talk about it. I doubt they will point out that he hit the Secret Service guy, though.

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.