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RE: Kerry in 2008:

1. Democrats not only bury their dead, they bury their wounded. If Gore couldn't get a nomination when the general consensus amongst democrats was that he was robbed (and by a man who was supposed to be an idiot, no less!), then Kerry hasn't the same chance as a mass of semi-frozen water vapor compacted into a spherical shape in the depths of Hades.

2. Howard Dean figures into all of this, as well. Dean may be a lunatic, but he can raise funds big time. Dean also serves as a counterweight to Hilary. Dean's loudmouthed tirades make Hilary seem moderate and make Kerry look comatose. The selection of Dean was a direct shot across Kerry's bow.

3. All people will remember about Kerry is two years of round-the-clock Vietnam. Now that his record has been scrutinized, held up to public ridicule, and found to have more holes in it than the proverbial piece of swiss cheese, the only thing that possibly made the man interesting and virile is now long gone. Americans will not vote for a p*ssy. heck, even Jimmah Cartah could boast of being a nuclear engineer. Being a Swiftboat commander with a penchant for self-inflicted wounds hardly sounds as manly or brave compared to that.

4. The rules have changed. People no longer want a choice between republican and democrat, they want a choice between republicrat and democlican. The two parties have swiped each others issues so often they are no longer recognizable, except at the extremes. Kerry still falls into the 60's radical category that defined the old democratic party. Now people want a democrat that is socially conservative and fiscally responsible. Kerry is neither.

5. The nation could not take another 2 years of a drunken Theresa Heinze-Kerry rambling on about the poor from inside one of the mansions she inherited from her late husband.

6. Kerry cannot gain the nomination because stupid cannot be washed off. In the same vein, John Edwards cannot gain the nomination because "southern turncoat who got elected by kissing Yankee backside" cannot be washed off either.

7. That wonderful post-election issue of Newsweek (before the commies took over again) portrayed Kerry as stubborn, a bad listener and very indecisive. Kerry's appearances on TV showed us a bold-faced and accomplished liar with a total lack of imagination or ideas. The convention showed a Kerry that was upstaged by a failed president (Carter), an impeached president (Clinton), a fat gasbag (T. Kennedy) and a portly-semi-intelligent-slug-like-film producer (Michael Moore). If Kerry couldn't beat THAT line up, you knew he was dead int he water. And those were on his good days. Lesson: even a hyper-friendly media cannot put fresh lipstick on a pig and call it a prom queen.

8. Kerry blamed everything but avian flu and American Idol on the Bush tax cuts. However, he never advanced anything resembling a coherent tax or economic stragetgy, merely spouting 40-year-old platitudes from the class-warfare hit parade.

9. He gets older and uglier by the minute.

10. He'd probably hire Bob Shrum again, who by my count, is 0 for 14,000.