Tacitus made a good point about Kerry’s failure to connect. Kerry didn’t want to offend the middle, but he felt the need to play to the base, so he put coded references to things the base would get–”I will appoint an Attorney General who actually upholds the Constitution of the United States.”–without turning off the middle. The problem was that it just left the middle wondering what in the world he was talking about.

Plus, I don’t think you can overstate the fact that nobody likes Kerry. They support him because they think he can beat Bush.