Tim Blair

First!!

I think my girlfriend broke up with me, but I'm not sure. And I'm afraid to ask, because if she hasn't, I don't want to give her any ideas.

A few weeks ago the NY Times had a "less is better" article on Kerry. As a former consituent of his, I can't disagree witht he strategy.

For those of you not in Boston, I can guarantee that this mess will NOT be fixed by next month's convention. Kerry is going to be in quite a conundrum at that point, but I'm confident that he will find some way to take both sides of the issue. The local press, especially the Boston Globe, will applaud him for his "nuanced" approach to the issue. "Nuanced" being the French word for "retarded", I believe.

I hear he's going to appear in drag!

He crossed a picket line at the sanctuary of St Vincent's if he fronted for communion. Many of the bishops, after all, are 'working to rule' and advocating Senator Kerry's exclusion from the sacrament. These ecclesiastics include the Most Reverend Sean Patrick O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston.

"Boston Archbishop Says Pro-Abortion Politicians 'Shouldn't Dare Come to Communion'".

John-boy will tunnel underneath the picket line to get into the convention. He'd dig the tunnel with a popscicle stick if he had to, in order to claim the nomination.

I figure he'll be winched down from a hovering helicopter onto the roof of the convention center. He was in Vietnam, y'know!

He was in Vietnam? Why doesn't his campaign ever mention this? I would. I imagine he served at least two or three full tours of duty. My breath smells like cat food.

He'll cross the picket line. After all, he's changed every other position he ever took.

There was a time when Massachusets elected officials knew how to answer striking policemen. Calvin Coolidge is spinning in his grave.

Even if Kerry were to tunnel or helicopter into the Convention Center, wouldn't he be alone in the hall? How would all of his French mime supporters get in without crossing over?

Jim Geraghty provides a form guide to John Kerry’s potential VPs. Who may have to speak in Kerry’s absence.

That assumes that Kerry will have picked one by the time of the convention. If he hasn't, and he doesn't appear...hmm, Battle Royal for the veep slot as the convention main event?

The secret plan is to make Comical Ali spokesman for Kerry, then when he crosses the line, Ali will pop up and say what line? There's no picket line here. You Americans don't know what a picket line looks like. Wait until Uday and Qusay are back from vacation.

One day while at the county fair,
I didn't hear a candidate who wasn't there,
He wasn't there again today,
He'll get my vote if it stays that way.

-The American electorate-

Mark Latham seems to have a bit of Kerryitis. He gets a boost in the polls when he says nothing and reveals no policies.

but when he starts yapping about anything important...

Jim Geraghty provides a form guide to John Kerry’s potential VPs. Who may have to speak in Kerry’s absence.

Geraghty forgot Wilbur Post.

You have all missed the point. Surely everyones memory is clear on the Kerry gambit over not accepting the nomination at the Convention. In that way he could continue to spend his war chest money vice the gov. funds.

If he refuses to cross a picket line in Boston it gives him an easy out. He can say he stood up for his ideals and will accept the nomintion at a later date. All the while continuing to spend his own funds and closeing the gap with the Bush war chest.

Simple and VERY DEVIOUS, just as Kerry likes it.

Well, in that vein I enjoyed Mickey Kaus's idea a few weeks ago that Kerry should simply never accept the nomination and (if elected anyway) become a figurehead president who doesn't actually do anything besides jet around and "represent".

Or perhaps the Dems could put a "Generic Democrat" on the ballot against Bush - which would be just as well, since Generic Democrat has pulled better head-to-head numbers against Bush than Kerry has in almost all polls since Iowa and New Hampshire...