[Sarastro]

Free Republic mentioned.

This is pretty critical of Kerry considering the source.

[RoseofTexas]

OH WOW, FR is becoming a source to reckon with!! HEY YOU, NYSLIME lurkers...SHOVE IT!! :p

[nuconvert]

OKay, who gets credit for that line?

Speak up

[Tijeras_Slim]

Typical NY Slimes, making us evil "sneering" conservatives... we were probably laughing at Ketchup boy.

[LibFreeUSA]

-"But despite his legacy at Yale and the weekends in Kennebunkport, Me., Mr. Bush manages to pull off the common-man routine without question."

His legacy is that he grew up and was raised in Texas, no matter how much they may want to paint him 'like' Kerry.

[Tamzee]

"But somehow the image of the yacht really clings to Kerry,"

Uhhh... maybe because he's the only candidate that actually HAS one?

[Lijahsbubbe]

"But somehow the image of the yacht really clings to Kerry," he said. "Largely because Republicans have made the stereotype so natural. If a liberal drives an S.U.V., it's the car of the elite, if a Republican drives one it's instantly the car of the common man. They have a whole stereotype that they've spent years building."

No, it's because he's an elitist phoney, and no photo ops can fix that problem.

[Horatio Gates]

there are lots of plumbers and construction workers windsurfing off Cape Cod and in the lakes of Iowa

Yes, but their not running for president, nor do they look like dorks in the process. IMHO

[avital2]

like "windsurfing" is the problem. Hey NYT, it's the CANDIDATE, stupid!

[wildwood]

the truth is, his hair just looks goofy when he's out there on that windsurfer. I can't believe I'm saying this, but it just boils down to the hair."

no, the guy is an ass. it's NOT his hair, but his contemptuous beau brummell pompous pompadoured head with the creepy little smile that is the problem. he is a spoiled diva, bar none.

duh

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"I would have expected it to go over well, the stodgy, overserious guy trying to do something hipper," said Robert J. Thompson, a professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University.

He was TRYING to do somehting HIPPER.

Another girlie man posing as something he is not.

[toupsie]

Oh please, like his view of Iraq, even Senator Kerry's hobby depends on which way the wind blows.

[BonnieJ]

He'd come across better with his "sports" without the outfits he wears for them. As Zell Miller said, "What sort of man wears spandex?" And always so colorful.

Of course, if he went to work in the Senate occasionally, took a break from the slopes, waves, etc, we might all feel a little less judgemental!

[Semper Paratus]

("He married the all-inclusive package," sneered one posting on freerepublic.com. "EVERYTHING is included.")

Typical. Can't tell the diffrence between sneering and LOL.

[don'tbedenied]

The cluelessness of the MSM is astonishing. Clearly the image Kerry has is caused the the Jedi mind tricks of Karl Rove.

[Samwise]

Out-of-touch, elitist Massachusetts liberal? What would give people that idea?

[Sabatier]

Wind-surfing doesn't look good on anybody over forty.
And Kerry's vacations from his vacations look bad on a rich man.

[Lil'freeper]

("He married the all-inclusive package," sneered one posting on freerepublic.com. "EVERYTHING is included.")

"The New York Times is SUCH a JOKE," sneered another poster on freerepublic.com. She continued, "There are few things more pathetic than the most pompous legacy media establishment (NYT) continuing to operate under the delusion that it is relevant."

The NYT can quote me on that. I even wrote the quote for them so they'll get it right when they plagerize it.

[MoralSense]

Let's see, he's losing...it must be image. Yeah, that's it. It's image. And those terrible Republicans are winning because they're so much better at...image-building! Yeah, that's it! Image-building!

[deadhead]

LOL, you have been quoted

"These pictures capture him running from one vacation activity to another in pastimes that are really for a much younger generation."

"He married the all-inclusive package. EVERYTHING is included."

87 posted on 07/18/2004 8:22:03 AM PDT by Watery Tart (Kerry is bin Laden's Man/Bush is Mine)

[PJ-Comix]

Actually windsurfing is the one thing I can't criticize Kerry about. Last weekend I saw somebody kite surfing (not to be confused with windsurfing) at the beach and became absolutely FASCINATED with the sport. One big reason is the kite surfer was zipping along on the ocean about as fast as a jet skier. I have done some research on the Web and kite surfing isn't expensive nor as hard to learn as I thought (one guy told me it would cost over $1000 for the kite alone---NOT true). I have to say, if I were a presidential nominee and had the choice between kite surfing or campaigning, I would probably choose the former.

Any kite surfers out there? If so, what do you think of the sport? I am SERIOUSLY interested in this.