[Overpaid Slacker]

The word was, just after midnight last night, that BigFatTeddyKennedy waddled into the Kerry home to confer. Moses, I completely agree with you, but I'm not sanguine about his doing the "right" thing here with counsel he's likely to get. He's a vain, effete douchebag -- whose hopes were sky-high b/c of the obviously manipulated exit polls -- that apparently believes he was destined for the Oval Office, that it's his birthright.

My opinion of Gore has soured considerably since he went off his meds a couple of years ago, but he had Fifteen minutes of Statesman in him when he delivered his concession speech. After pulling the country through the keyhole like that, he still made an eloquent, if too-temporary exit.

I don't believe Kerry's got it in him, and as there were no graybeards around 4 years ago to advise Gore to take the Gentleman's course, the more extreme Democratic party of today is unlikely to take (or have anyone to GIVE) such counsel.

JP