I don't think your daughter would want to be stuck with a guy like Kerry, either. And that is a point many seem to be missing here. The target audience isn't the wonks like us who know the facts and who we are voting for. It is the "Security Mom" woman vote, with whom Kerry is doing poorly and needs to reclaim.
Look, we all know Slick Willie, and let me tell you, Senator Kerry, you are no Slick Willie. I recall during the Republican Convention, all the "pundits" slammed Laura Bush' speech. And yet polls the next day showed it did greatly assist the President with the female vote. Kerry's pomposity won't go over well with them.
The best analogy I've heard so far was some guy on PBS who said Kerry looked like the smartest kid in the class and Bush looked like the "seen it all, heard it all" teacher.