“Whip up old Frat Buddies to discuss his youthful drinking habits?”

Actually, I’ve already seen a story about this, and how Bush was terribly shy and used to drink so that he would have the courage to talk to girls.

And the sun is hot, and puppies are cute. Could this be any more frickin’ obvious? Why the hell else do guys drink in high school and college? Was the author of this “attack” the treasurer of the environmental club at his high school?

It sure as hell didn’t taste very good (especially with our low tastes and lower budgets). It usually led to spending a couple of hours talking on the porcalin cel phone to Yaweh, and a crashing hangover on Saturday (see: beer, cheap and drinks, mixing). We drank so that we would think we were witty enough, cool enough and good-looking enough to talk to girls. Fortunately, there were just enough girls who also lacked self-confidence and were willing to imbibe stupid amounts of grog that sometimes it acutally worked.

After a while, we learned that we could be at least somewhat witty and cool without being smashed – that’s called growing up. Most of us also learned to drink in moderation and to enjoy the taste of a nice Shiraz, a good microbrew and a well aged single malt scotch without getting sh*t faced.

Anyway, if the Democrats want to kiss off the “was-too-shy-to-talk-to-girls-without-a-few- drinks” segment of the population, then Kerry’s headed for a blowout of McGovernite proportions.