Here comes John Kerry again with a big "L" on his forehead.
Karen Tumulty of TIME sums it up:
In other words, Kerry has managed on the eve of what could be a watershed election to remind pretty much everyone what it was they didn't like about the Democrats, and especially what they didn't like about him. It might have made more sense just to say he was sorry — for once to get ahead of a mistake, instead of trying to compensate for it the next time.
I believe Kerry was just trying to take a cheap shot at Bush and bungled the joke -- never forget how dumb Bush is (aside: and how dumb you must have been to lose to him) -- and the joke, as he meant it, wasn't funny either -- but by not apologizing and by keeping himself in the news, he has allowed the Republicans to do what they have been trying and failing to do for weeks. (R) wants to frame the choice as "Which party do you most trust to keep America safe?" (D) wants to keep "Iraq is a quagmire" the only point worth mentioning. Until now, (D) had succeeded at nationalizing the state and district elections on the latter point. What they most feared was another national election on the former point, because they already lost that one, and Kerry was the face of it. This is close to a worst case scenario for a party that was coasting to victory in a policy-free anti-Bush hatefest. Now every Republican candidate has a sword rather than a shield in this final week of campaigning.
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The good Lord works in mysterious ways.
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