ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

Jay Nordlinger writes about Teresa Heinz Kerry, whom he describes as “a Martha Mitchell for our time”, who’s “going to be a big story in the ’04 campaign”:

Anyway, the really beautiful stuff comes from Teresa. She said, “They [the Republicans] will probably say he’s French, he’s Jewish . . . he’s a monkey. I just find it sad.”

Whoa, whoa: Jewish? monkey? You mean, the GOP