The Winter Soldier In Winter

Handing a nice midterm bon-bon to the GOP, John Kerry steps in it. But then, he’s an old hand at this stuff.

Over the weekend, I noted that Lynne Cheney and Bill O’Reilly each asked their interviewer the question; Kerry’s major gaffe allows every Republican up for reelection a chance to ask it of the person he’s running against.

Update: Charlie Rangel also lost it recently, but then that’s nothing new, either.

Meanwhile, Dean Barnett puts all the pieces together:

Democrats must be cursing that damn Karl Rove. How does he do it? From where in the black depths of his soul did he conjure the idea of putting a microphone in front of John Kerry