[Dont Mention the War]

They are in total anguish over on DU! It's great! They've taken to parsing the phrase "could be named" in the Post's article, trying to convince themselves that it's proof the Post is merely speculating. None of them (except one, that I can see) is paying attention to the the rest of the sentence, which makes it clear that the Post is only speculating on the timing of the announcement, not the announcement itself.

I can't find anyone over there that sees this as anything other than pure disaster for Kerry.

Wouldn't it be great if the publci find Gephardt so boring that Kerry doesn't even get his "8 to 15% bounce?"

[dawn53]

I looked at the DU forums a couple days ago and didn't see any postings in favor of Gephardt. They seemed to be favoring Weasley.

[reformedliberal]

Ya know, I have been pondering Gillespie's motives for that bounce email, complete w/graph showing how W loses 7 and Kerry goes up 8.

Hyping expectations?

I am also happy to see that W will be running a McCain commercial and that the campaign reminded everyone that McCain was Kerry's first choice. Gonna make Kerry spend time insisting he really was fooling us and wanted Gephardt all along.

Those who have been lamenting W's alleged lack of killer instinct may be about to get a gift.