As soon as I heard that Kerry was going to have a press conference to "explain his remarks", I just knew that he'd take this from a self-inflicted Dim wedgie to lighting an M-80 and stuffing down the front of their pants. He's just so stupid and so arrogant that the thought probably never even crossed his mind that he should just say that he screwed up, apologize and then let the DBM put the fire out.
If he had, this would have been at most a two day story - the GOP would have gotten a little bit of mileage out of it, but there would have still been a few days for the Dims to go back to their prevent defense of staying out of sight until next Tuesday. But he's still so sure that the Swiftees screwed him by pointing out how phony his military record is, he's still so sure he'd be POTUS if only he'd hit back at them harder, that he just lost control and lashed out wildly, and may well have cost his own party any chance they may have had at recapturing the House and Senate. He's kind of like a baseball player who's so determined to cover himself in glory that he hacks away at every pitch trying to put it over the fence and ends up striking out, when all he needed to do was rap out a single that would have brought the man on third home and won the game.
Come to think of it, I'm gloating some, too. God knows we haven't had much to gloat about during this campaign - I think we've earned a little chance to do it.