> Kerry's a tedious cadaver, but did you watch that convention? The
> party faithful are faithfully behind him. The margins are up for
> grabs, but the base is pretty solid.
Whether he's a TC or not, if he can convince the majority of swing voters that they'd rather have a beer with him than with Shrub, he's in like Flynn, or so the conventional wisdom has it.
I've never understood why being someone you would like to have a beer with is the prime qualification for president, but it seems to be.
At any rate, his speech seems to have humanized him somewhat, according to most commentators. So he may be on the way to success.
And anyway, if Shrub is really a teetotaler, you couldn't have a beer with him. U.S. politics is really strange, isn't it?
PS: I think I'll start my own Green Party. There aren't enough yet.
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