The John Kerry Post of the Day

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

Let's start with this beaut from Fallout Boy, as reported by Jim Geraghty at Kerry Spot...

Drudge is quoting Edwards as saying, "When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."

According to the Hotline, this was discussed on Fox News' Special Report.

FNC's Kondracke, on John Edwards promising that if Kerry wins, the disabled will walk again:

"What Edwards said is clearly part of the hype that the Kerry campaign has been delivering about how people are going to walk again next week, if we permit stem cell research to go forward. That's not true. It is probably decades away before it's really usable. On the other hand, you know, if we don't get started it will never happen" ("Special Report," 10/11).

NPR's Liasson: "I think this has become for a surprisingly, complicated scientific issue, this has proved to have real power on the campaign trail" ("Special Report," FNC, 10/11).

Columnist Charles Krauthammer: "I've heard a lot of hype over the last 30 years about the keys to the kingdom here in this issue. And all of them have proved false. For Edwards to make the claims he did is the worst demagoguery I've heard in Washington in a quarter century. To imply that Christopher Reeve was kept in the wheelchair because of the policies of the Bush administration on stem cells is ridiculous and insulting" ("Special Report," FNC, 10/11).

I'll bet some GOP 527 groups could get some mileage out of this statement in attack ads.

I wonder why Edwards didn't also promise that when John Kerry is president, people like Rodney Dangerfield are going to get some respect.

You know, there's being a salesman, and being a carnie con man. Guess what realm John Edwards just entered? Seriously, why doesn't Edwards start claiming Kerry will cure lepers as well?

Meanwhile, the Lord of Truth pointed out that John Kerry's no longer getting love in New Jersey...

Despite repeated pleas from the campaign of Sen. John Kerry, Gov. McGreevey has refused to release more than a token amount of state Democratic money for voter-turnout efforts on behalf of the party's presidential ticket in New Jersey.

With control over an estimated $2.5 million in state party funds, McGreevey has agreed to release only $25,000 to the Kerry campaign - infuriating New Jersey surrogates of Kerry and of his running mate, Sen. John Edwards.

The money shortage has severely undercut the Democrats' planned grassroots effort this fall and could impair their ability to get voters to the polls Nov. 2 in a must-win state for Kerry.

Already, just three weeks before the election, it has resulted in a notable absence throughout the state of lawn signs, bumper stickers, phone banks, and other traditional signs of an active campaign. And with little money to hire people, the Kerry campaign has had to rely almost exclusively on volunteers.

"We haven't been able to get signs out or other GOTV [get out the vote] activities set up the way we want to get it done," said John Graham, an Essex County Democrat heading the Kerry steering committee in New Jersey. "The governor should be doing more. He should open up those coffers. He's still responsible for trying to get a Democrat elected president, and that should be his total goal right now."

Graham added: "The money's there. I guess they're saving it for another year."

Indeed, that was the reason given by the Democrat running the state committee on behalf of McGreevey.

That Hillary in 2008 Campaign is looking more likely by the minute.