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Kerry’s “Dukakis in the tank” moment?
Rich Galen at Mullings.com came up with the best caption for this photo: “Senator Kerry does his famous sperm imitation.”
This photo was on the front page of the Boston Herald this morning. I hope all the DNC delegates had fun waking up to this in the complimentary newspaper outside their hotel rooms this morning. Really, isn’t this the media handler’s nightmare. The first rule of public appearances is to never let the candidate look foolish. That’s what happened back in the 1988 campaign when another Massachusetts liberal running against a Bush for president had a bad photo-op. Michael Dukakis stuck a tanker’s helmet on his head and went for a ride in an Abrams tank, grinning like a fool, and generally looking completely un-cool and un-presidential.
Kerry’s photo doesn’t have the same potential for opposition ads—Bush 41 used Dukakis’ tank photo to hammer him for being weak on defense—but it still makes Kerry look un-presidential. Here’s another one with Kerry supposedly hunting, but looking like it’s his first time holding a shotgun. There are more. Sure, Bush has had some funny, awkward moments, like falling off the Segway, but that was not a photo op. Apparently someone approved John Kerry putting on a clean suit and crawling in and out of the shuttle hatch. Dumb idea.
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Hi I am a fetus attached to an umbilical cord. I hope my mother is pro-life.
Posted by Jeff Miller on 07/27/04 at 10:12 AM Looks like Kerry is attached to one of those small city streetcleaners… the ones that look like ride on mowers with a huge hose attached to it - and look what trash this one picked up!
I was in Boston yesterday escorting visiting family members from Newfoundland. Boston is empty… no traffic, hardly any people, no lines shopping, no one in restaurants, no lines anywhere. I am sure the vendors and stores are suffering tremendously due to loss of income (adding that to the admitted 50M this is costing MA taxpayers). Police are everywhere and in Faneuil Hall every conceivable news station has set up shop making it almost impossible to navigate around the area. We witnessed a ‘peace’ march/rally guarded by at least a hundred cops… in cars, on horseback and on foot (and one cop said “why don’t these people just get jobs”) while the people marching chanted “stop shopping, bombs are dropping”. Two guys held a large banner which said “BILLIONAIRES FOR BUSH” while sporting fancy evening wear and smoking huge stogies (no one was paying any attention to them). I walked by and my daughter and I called out “Babies for Bush!” which made us feel somewhat better and really, really clever 
.
Well, it wasn’t a total loss, the Newfies loved Boston, think the Dems are dim and we got some Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers to use next April Fool’s Day on unsuspecting family members.
All in all, it was a difficult day for a politically conservative soul. Not many friendly faces in that crowd!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/27/04 at 10:59 AM But if she isn’t ... that’s her choice. I’d never impose my personal religious faith.
Mark Steyn had a piece in today’s London Telegraph where he took a couple of ‘shots’ at Kerry the Hunting Man…
“…[Kerry] was in Wisconsin the other day, pretending to be a regular guy, and was asked what kind of hunting he preferred. “I’d have to say deer,” said the senator. “I go out with my trusty 12-gauge double-barrel, crawl around on my stomach… That’s hunting.”
Huh? You hunt deer crawling around on your stomach…? And with a shotgun…? Kerry needs to come back to Wisconsin around Thanksgiving and any one of the more than 500,000 hunters here will show him how to really hunt deer.
John, a hint. It’s not done on your stomach - nor with a shotgun. We’ll even provide you a Remington 30-06 for the occasion. It’s called a deer rifle...
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/27/04 at 03:26 PM Actually, he looks more like a pinworm with buck teeth.
Didn’t that Woody Allen film “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex ...” have a sketch with a bunch of characters dressed like Monsieur Kerry?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/28/04 at 06:01 AM Pigs in Space was a great mel brook’s gag…
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