[Conservative_boy_in_Bangkok]

Whats Kerry thinking? How is this going to help his reelection bid? Apart from playing to the Far left? This will go down as yet another example of the traveling freak show that is the Kerry Campaign.

[concerned about politics]

Whats Kerry thinking? How is this going to help his reelection bid?

The Republican rebuttal is too easy.
Bring up Kerry's own words. He committed even worse atrocities.
All Rumsfield has to say about resigning because of enemy abuse is "You did it first. You resign first. Set a good example."

[lonestar]

Whats Kerry thinking?

Me! Me! Me! It's all about ME!

[sissyjane]

He's trying to shore up his base.

Must be slipping badly in their internal polling.

[El Gato]

Apart from playing to the Far left?

I think he's given up on the mainstream, so called middle of the road types who live in "fly-over country" and is concentrating on energizing his base. He'll keep up "reporting for duty" BS just to try to de-energize Bushes base, and get the fence sitters to thinking "Not a dimes worth of difference.".

While I'm real happy with Bush on many issues, there is a big difference. It's between "barely acceptable" and "no way, no how, over my dead body".