I'll do the heavy lifting today, Johngalt. I will be overseas next week and looking to you to keep the Blog up and Senator Kerry's numbers down.
I turn to Libertarian icon Larry Elder for his disquisition "Sen. Kerry -- The Likeability Gap"
The people who know Kerry best consider Kerry aloof, imperious and condescending. Even worse, Kerry can't seem to retain their names. At a 1996 Massachusetts political affair, a Democratic Massachusetts State legislator said to his friends, "Watch this.”He walked up to Kerry and said, "Hi, Senator --Representative Butchy Cataldo." At this, Kerry smiled, slapped his back and exclaimed, "Butchy, so good to see you again!”One problem -- the guy, the state rep -- was not Butchy Cataldo. In fact, Butchy Cataldo ran and lost to this Kerry-greeting legislator whose name is Bill Reinstein, a man bearing no resemblance to the tall, dark-haired Cataldo.