"In fact, here's my ideal plan for the Kerry campaign. At an upcoming rally, an anti-Kerry protestor starts to burn an American flag. Kerry leaps down from the podium and starts strangling the protestor with his bare hands, then hurls him to the ground and rescues the flag. In the course of putting out the fire, he suffers minor burns that, the campaign announces, will force him to be hospitalized and inaccessible to the media and the public until mid-October. In the meantime, Edwards is dispatched to present the Democratic message for the next three and half months.Sounds good, huh? All they need is to gin up a protestor who's willing to endure some minor, non-lethal choking."
-Jonathan Chait, participating in the post-pick "roundtable," on TNR.com.
Posted by Stephen Silver at July 6, 2004 10:25 PM