You know, if I was at a dinner party, and said something like - "I will pass on the cream spinach, I don't want to be like my fat wife" - regardless of whether or not it was a botched joke, I had better be contrite and sincere pretty damn quick to the wife.
With one stupid utterance Kerry has managed to make Kerry the topic of the last week of the campaign. Someone has got to be mad. The orchestrated corruption/perversion/Iraq campaign that started with Foley has been running for a month now.
Kerry has dropped a bomb and it went off in his and the Dem's face. The longer someone with power does not tell him to shut up, the worse it will be for this cycle. This story only does damage. It demoralizes the Dem base (what an idiot), and engages the other on a hot button issue.
Of course, since he is still making a fool of himself on Imus today, it means it is already too late. The next story will be about others shunning Kerry, and now you see a less unified party, in disarray as it spins itself out of control.
I predict a really stupid apology by Friday.
Like a grenade in a basket of rice?
If he does it will be one of those; "I'm sorry that my words were misunderstood" exercises.