April 28, 2004
Incredible shrinking Kerry
Kerry is a terrible, terrible, terrible candidate.
So writes John Podhoretz in the New York Post.
This flap over whether presumptive Democrat nominee John Kerry threw his Vietnam medals (or ribbons), or someone else's medals or ribbons over a fence in a 1971 protest, is devastating to a candidate already with a reputation as a flip-flopper. This country simply isn't going to select a candidate who doesn't know whether to brand himself as a war hero or radical pacifist in times that require a leader for a battle against radical Islam and terror that may last generations.
Even the left-wing Village Voice has bailed on Kerry: "John Kerry Must Go," writes a columnist there.
I wrote on March 15, in a blog entitled John Kerry, fog machine, that Kerry reminded me of failed Maryland Dem candidate for governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who generated not one iota of excitement within her own party.
My earlier blog appeared six weeks ago. Now an avalanche of criticism from within his own party threatens Kerry.
Somewhere, Hillary Rodham Clinton is smiling.
