Rick B

As Dennis says – watch the campaigns – you can smell the flop sweat everywhere Kerry shows up

oh yeah

i’m there

that’s one of the things i’m seeing: a lot of ABBers who thought Bush was done suddenly having their uh oh moment.

this is the liberal cocoon

people had no idea the Swifties were even out there

i knew for months, obviously, and didn’t tell my husband anything about it because i knew it would spark a fight. as a result, he was blindsided by the TIMES story; no idea it was coming. he’d been cruising along thinking, Sure Kerry said some stupid things when he was young, but that was then. he had no idea the Swifties didn’t feel EXACTLY THE SAME WAY.

he told me later he knew the instant he read the TIMES story that the Swift Boat campaign was death. judging by the look on his face, I believe him.

also: Neither the FT nor THE ECONOMIST has yet realized things have changed. Kind of surprised me.