He did later...
Posted on 09/29/2004 3:00:37 AM PDT by jalisco555
Susan Lampert Smith, a columnist for the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, was sprawled on her couch in Mount Horeb on Sunday afternoon, like so many others in her state, watching the Green Bay Packers and looking forward to a nap.
Suddenly, as she tells it, the phone rang and her friend Mary was on the line. "John Kerry's at the Main Street Pub watching the Packers," Mary told her.
"I just thought she was pulling my leg," Smith told E&P Monday. Smith had written a column for that day's State Journal challenging the pointy-headed Kerry to visit a small-town Wisconsin beer joint, watch the Pack and buy a round for the bar, because, as she sees it, he's "got to start acting more like a regular guy. Bush is really good at acting like a regular guy even though he's not."
Then Smith heard some chanting in the background. Suspecting there might be some truth to her friend's story, she headed to the pub, where she found gawkers, cops and Secret Service types.
Sure enough, Kerry himself emerged, waving and shaking hands as he made his way up Main Street to Schubert's café. Apparently Kerry picked up a chocolate malted there and then left town, after the 40-minute stopover.
When Smith entered the tavern, a place she and her family frequent for Friday night fish fries, she spotted a copy of Sunday's State Journal on the bar. She was told that Kerry came for the kickoff, bought a round, and split. "It was a little freaky," she told E&P. "I have no power in real life; I can't make my kids do anything, but I can make a presidential candidate buy a beer."
Smith said she had no actual confirmation from the Kerry campaign that his actions were inspired by her column. Still, she joked, "I think he should hire me as his Midwestern adviser."
Bartender Sheila Meyers told her Kerry had a Leinenkugel's and a cheeseburger. The Associated Press would later move a photo of Kerry in the bar, lifting a stein.
Then, on Monday, according to Smith, Kerry waved a copy of a newspaper showing such a photo to the crowd at a rally elsewhere in the state. "He was holding it up and saying, 'See? I went to a bar and drank a Leinenkugel's,'" Smith said.
Smith wrote her piece "more tongue-in-cheek," she said, not expecting Kerry to act on it. Reviewing her experience in a column on Monday, she asked, "What if I had suggested that Kerry wear a hula skirt and dance on Main Street?"
And Kerry is a "regular guy"?? Whoever wrote this is a dope.
Actually, I took this article to be a slam against Kerry, suggesting his campaign is so pathetic that it is reduced to taking advice from columnists on how to act like a regular guy.
So do I!!! He looked like a tard!
I'll believe he's a regular guy when he shows up at "Lambert" field in December and freezes his ass off on the concrete cheap seats.
Why not suggest that the poor schlub grow a spine?
Hire? All the other journalist are carrying his water for free...
Actually....we could use some help in our secondary up in "Lambart"........did you see our game against the Colts last week in the RCA dome? :) 'Course...I don't think I could deal with a 'loompa flopping his way down trying to defend the pass....
Oh, Kerry's just trying to emphasize that he is able to go in and "have a beer with the boys" unlike President Bush. I thought he looked sort of dazed myself.
Well, hula dancing isn't exactly what he looks for in his sports photo ops, but it might be close enough.
"Bartender Sheila Meyers told her Kerry had a Leinenkugel's and a cheeseburger."
The only sensible thing he has done to date
What, no brat and an Old Style?
I think Kerry and the Democrats were getting a sign of events to come. Even if he leaves the race, they're too far behind now to mount a comeback.
Some regular guy...had his photo op and left....hes a fraud
bump
At first, I thought he had made a stop in San Francisco.
There's something fishy about this story. It's hard to believe that Kerry actually paid for a round.
Maybe Teresa's upped his allowance for the next few weeks.
He did later...
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