The John Kerry Post of the Day

My latest discovery about my favorite cheese-eating surrendermonkey-looking Ketchup King cum Presidential candidate:

Consider this two posts in one, to make up for a missed post a couple weeks back -- besides, we have so much Kerry material, it might get lost if we tried to save it.

As if I would pass on the chance to make the Oompa-Loompa reference everyone else, including loyal reader and former Clintonite JK, made after seeing the linked picture. Yikes. To me, Kerry suddenly resembles George Hamilton. The 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag version of Hamilton.

But there's more to report about Kerry today. We also have his latest accusation of a Bush "secret plan." This time, Kerry thinks Bush will hurt dairy farmers, which is convenient for Senator Flip-Flop to advertise, since he's hanging in Wisconsin, where he's trailing...

In the 1990s, Kerry supported the Northeast Dairy Compact, a regional pricing program that propped up prices for Northeastern dairy farmers over objections from their Midwestern counterparts.

"We've had a difference between the Midwest and the Northeast," Kerry said. "I'm going to be very upfront with you about it.

"As a senator representing Massachusetts, I fought for the dairy compact and fought to have our dairy farmers get help," the four-term lawmaker said. "I'm running for president of the United States now and I intend to represent all the farmers of America."

Kerry said Bush is opposing an effort to extend the Milk Income Loss Contract that helps dairy farmers when milk prices drop and is set to expire in October 2005. He said the Bush administration would wait until after the election to act so voters in swing dairy states wouldn't turn against him.

The plan was described in an Agricultural Department briefing paper that was reported in National Journal's "CongressDaily" on Sept. 7. The Bush campaign issued a statement that said accounts of White House opposition to the milk program are false.

Kerry said if he is elected president, he will ensure the program is extended. The Bush campaign said Kerry's position is "political opportunism" and an attempt to change the subject from his support for the Northeast Dairy Compact.

Kerry told the voters that as a young boy he would fill milk bottles at his uncle's dairy farm. "I have a great sense of the land," Kerry said. "I really do. I'm tired of small family farmers getting squeezed."

"I have a great sense of the land?" What the hell does that mean? Linguistic peculiarity aside, Kerry's in classic mode here. He supported one policy for many years, even though he now admits it was a bad policy -- otherwise, wouldn't he try and change the minds of the Wisconsin voters? No, it's easier to flip-flop (although this time, he's flipping to the correct policy position). And keep in mind, the Northeast Dairy Compact is one of the few issues on which Kerry hadn't flip-flopped yet.

Next, we have the classic moment of a person crying uncle (hat tip: MartiniPundit)...

Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry appealed for an end to the TV advertising war that has marked his election battle against President George W. Bush.

Kerry said the avalanche of negative television spots and attacks being shown on US screens was scaring off voters.

"Americans need a real conversation over our future," Kerry said in a speech at a school in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

"What they don't need is all these trumped up advertisements, they just make people curl up and walk away," added the Massachusetts senator.

"I'm calling them 'misleadisments,'" Kerry said of the adverts. "It's all scare tactics ... because (Bush) has no record to run on."

You know, if Bush used a term like "misleadisments", Jon Stewart would be tooling on him for a month.

If they're scare tactics, as you allege, tell people why they're wrong. Whining about them isn't what areal man does... it's what a girlieman does (sorry, I needed to channel some Ahhnold).

Finally, check out this quote, from later in the same AFP dispatch...

In Wisconsin, Kerry also made a personality attack against the president, saying that he and his rival are both children of privilege, but Bush considers his comfortable position an entitlement.

Kerry said "he and I, we went to the same university, we're both very privileged." Both men attended Yale University.

The Democrat added that from his education "came a sense of fairness and responsibility" while Bush "thinks it's entitlement."

This comes from a man who's basic approach to making money has been to marry one heiress, dump her, date actresses, then marry an even richer heiress. And he thinks Bush has the sense of entitlement.