And Mr. Frum...

I don't know what to say to this guy... really. Let me prelude with his reaction to the Edwards-Cheney debate as follows:

With his repeated and worshipful descriptions of John Kerry--not to mention Edwards's moist good looks--you have to say that he would fill the role of First Lady much better than Teresa Heinz is likely to do. It would all have been very impressive--if Cheney's scalpel had not so swiftly and mercilessly sliced Edwards's living liver out of his body, impaled it quivering on a stick, and paraded it before Edwards' soulful eyes before the poor man expire

Who could possibly have watched that and agreed, yet he is paid for this analysis? Good on 'em, I suppose. So I waited with baited enthusiasm for his call of a Bush victory in round III. Not to be disappointed, he comes up with this:

Kerry made the gaffe of a lifetime in his answer to Bob Schieffer’s last question. “Well I guess all three of us are lucky men who married up.” The second those words passed his lips, his face flushed and his face twisted into a self-horrified grimace.

You really have to be an idiot to think this, I believe. You cannot complain that Kerry has no sense of humour and then claim his "gaffe of a lifetime" was committed in deftly handling a question of such explosiveness so well - in an area where Bush holds such an obvious advantage it is shocking that it was even asked. I laugh that he had to wait until the last possible question to come up with such a "gaffe of a lifetime". Honestly, I do not know if these are overt attempts to suade or reassure himself and others on the Bush position, or merely a reflection of his head up Bush's ass. I will say that it is for the sake of guys like this, and Steyn, that I do want to see el Presidente get shelled at all costs. So shocking on most counts, their sheer gall. I find myself as partisan as many, yet even with multiple beer in me, I am not so naive to say such ridiculous things. We march on.