Open mouth . . . insert foot

Yesterday, Tom posted Dean's great reaction to well-founded criticism of his Middle East "position" by Joe Lieberman, his most-aggressive Democratic rival. I love the idea of posting outrageous things said by the Democratic candidates, so here is today's offering from John Kerry, who said this at the Democratic debate the other night (if you can stomach it, the whole transcript is here):

"Well, you know, I look out at this audience, and there are people from every background, every creed, every color, every belief, every religion. This is, indeed, John Ashcroft's worst nightmare here."

This quote is so bad it has even been criticized by the Post's editorial page, which said Kerry "sullied himself" by making it, and the folks at This Just In, the webite of The Progressive, which gave it the "Smug Award" and suggested it might backfire on him.

Memo to Kerry: When correspondants at Remove All Doubt join with the Post's editorial page and The Progressive in criticizing your campaign, it is time for a major reevaluation of strategy.
- posted by Anonymous @ 9:50 AM