The Art of Politics

Here She Comes Again

When she's dancing 'neath the starry sky...ooh, she'll make you flip...

On the HMS John Kerry, it's clear Teresa is the boat anchor.

In the last few months, she's told a reporter to shove it, called people who don't want her husband's health care plan idiots, called her critics scumbags, said that people who want Bush re-elected want four more years of hell...

Now, she has dropped the suggestion that the Bush administration is sitting on Osama In-A-Box, waiting to crank the handle and have him spring up in October.

Teresa is killing the Kerry campaign. Oh mind you, she's not doing nearly as much damage as the candidate's own incoherence on Iraq, or inability to connect with middle America, or poorly thought out campaign strategy. She's simply added ballast water on a sinking ship. These outbreaks suck the oxygen from the room, eat into newscast time that now won't be doing something positive on Kerry, and generally feeds into the notion of the couple as aloof and disconnected from the masses.

Since the advent of widespread television viewing, the most "likable" candidate has won. Teresa is making John Kerry more unlikable.

Might we recommend the Kerry campaign look into one of these? Or this?

Posted by MEC2 at September 24, 2004 10:13 AM