He jumped the shark when he became the front runner for the nomination.
Third Purple Heart.
Thanks y'all!
That kind of thinking is "a little unhealthy" at this point!
That's going to scream off the podium.
For me, the moment was months and months ago, when Effin' rode his motorcycle onto the set of the Jay Leno show.
I thought to myself "whattadork!", and haven't been proved wrong at any moment since then.
For Dukakis: rape question. People were floored by his coldness on that one.
I remember when Clinton was running in 1992 and SNL spoofed the debates, with Phil Hartman as Clinton.
Hartman is asked: "Governor Clinton, whta would you do if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered."
He responds jovially: "While no one wants to see Kitty Dukakis raped and murdered, if she were, I would hope that it would be in Arkansas where we have one of the toughest death penalty statutes in America!"
I think it happened when he was sweating while addressing the nation. Good grief, couldn't they have had an air fan in there or cranked up the A/C? It didn't make him look all that presidential. Not that the speech helped either - it sucked. But first impressions are everything cause its hard to change someone's view of you later.
Oh, you mean when the REST of the country saw him jump the shark. Gotta be that hamster story, or the idiotic "reporting for duty"...
It was his awful acceptance speech, begun with that hokey, badly-executed salute, and replete with a too-rapid delivery of empty platitudes and an abundance of flop-sweat. That was quite a trifecta!
Right after the Munsters was cancelled.
It was when he uttered, "It's none of your business" to a question about which world leaders supported him.....
I think it happened way back when Kerry decided to play the "war hero" card as his main selling point to a party that has no particular respect for war heroes. But then, that IS about all he's got...
I think voters have been waiting for a chance to walk away from the Kerry campaign. The Bubble Boy photos were their excuse.
Here in the northeast the the anti-Bush sentiment is very strong. This means that for lots of folks who don't pay a lot of attention they just assumed they would be voting for Kerry. Now they have seen, with the photos and the convention, what a loser Kerry is and they are having serious second thoughts.
If Bush starts to get some separation in the polls the effect will be to pull in more and more of these folks who do not pay much attention. The separation in the polls will then increase substantially.
The idea that the electorate is decided is nonsense.
Maybe but since the alphabet networks weren't covering it, probably not the speech. Could be the "shove it" comment, but I doubt it.
Lots of choices:
The Bunny Suit
The acceptance speech that was all rhetoric and no substance
The dour looking marine having a talk with Kerry at the Wendy's
Although the media praised Max Cleland's speech, I thought his reference to the Bible he gave Kerry was perhaps the most transparent remark of the night.
Reminded me of a car salesman we encountered one time. We had stopped at a car lot after church to check out a car, and the car salesman spotted a Bible in our car. During our discussion of the car deal, he said, "I just want you to know I talk to the 'man upstairs.'" We promptly excused ourselves from the deal and left. That's what Cleland's speech reminded me of...a shifty "say anything to make a deal" car salesman (no offense to any reputable car salesmen reading this, LOL.)
Racing through his convention speech while gesticulating wildly, yelling, and covered in "flop sweat."