Kerry's woes

Kerry had another disastrous day, all due to the fact that people are seeing him close up. I don't think the populace has ever realized how vastly wealthy he is. I didn't. But hearing the story of his sale of his villa in Italy for over $7 million to George Clooney prior to running for president, may cast a different light on all of his blather about opposing special interests and all the left's attacks on Bush's privileged background. When Bush gets time off, he's back at his ranch clearing brush. Kerry is at Sun Valley denying that he ever falls off his snowboard, unless some sonuvabitch Secret Service Agent gets in his road.

He and Ted Kennedy have about as much insight into the lives of ordinary Americans as the Jacques Chirac, and about as much in common.

OK, I've seen it twice now. It's officially a rumor and speculation that the Democrats may dump Kerry before the election because he has turned out to be a lemon of a candidate. Hugh Hewitt calls it "pulling a Torch [as in Toricelli] replay." It's starting to appear possible given Kerry's inability to take a position, to make a simple statement without equivocation, or to quash his own aristocratic snobbishness and arrogance.

It would be fun to watch the Democrats implode, it weren't so nerve-wracking.