Kerry is undoubtedly in hiding for other reasons. The big news in Boston this week was the fatality in a Big Dig tunnel -- a woman was crushed by a 3-ton concrete ceiling panel. The tunnel's still closed. Talk radio was about nothing else -- RKO even preempted Rush all week. There's lots coming out about the corruption and incompetence that have marked the project.
Kerry was Lt Gov under Dukakis, who was governor when the whole mess started. And - after he was in the Senate - I heard on the radio that he summoned all the local reporters who were questioning the Big Dig's safety/feasibility years ago and told them we all had to put on a "united front" to keep the federal money flowing.
So in other words, Kerry is hiding under his desk?