The Green Eyed Monster

I love being able to support the top three choices on the Democratic side. No matter who win what state, no matter who earns what endorsement, it's good news for me!

I think there are limits to invoking the memory of JFK. And how many people will be moved to vote by the opinion of Caroline Kennedy?

Teddy, though, that's an endorsement worth having. Not so much for his persuasive powers, but for the clear rebuke to the notion of Clinton's inevitability.

I am so glad, Oliver, that you cited the train wreck of KKT's campaign as an unworthy comparison to Ted.

KKT has her merits as a human being and humanitarian, but Kennedy family members should NEVER lose to a Republican here, ever. Her campaign made so many unbelievable errors, one could deforest have of Oregon printing them. It's one thing to make a mistake, another to make an embarrassing blunder, but her campaign set the record for persistent aggressive stupidity.

Stupidity 1: naming a white Republican bureaucratic nobody from the Naval Academy who never won jack in an election, had no meaningful donor base and had no history in state government as her Lt Gov candidate instead of one of perhaps 300-500 reasonable other choices including any African-American member of the General Assembly, any other Democrat in that Assembly, a competent department head under Glendening, a County Executive or Council member (ideally one from a purple county like Anne Arundel), even a Baltimore City Council rep would have been smarter. A randomly chosen Democratic voter of eligible age, residency and blood alcohol content would have been a less stupid choice.

Stupidity #2: Charging for yard signs. Early in a campaign, you PAY to get yard signs out, you don't charge. If you want to ask for a donation for cost of production, fine, but you don't "charge" and you get them out ASAP. 90% of being a "loser" is not showing up and you want to paint the opponent, not yourself, as the loser.

Stupidity #3: Breathtaking arrogance and presumption led Team KKT to conclude that both Black and Jewish voters would simply back her. Maybe she had been riding on team Kennedy's coattails too long. Ehrlich set up a defacto min-campaign HQ in the lobby of Joan and Gary's Bagel Shoppe in the heart of Pikesville, the heart of metro Baltimore's politically active and extremely well-organized Jewish community. Kennedy slighted black voters - 50% of the Democratic Party - by passing up every black elected official for a nobody. But her Daddy (RIP) was well-liked by black Americans so she could get lazy, she thought. And did. Steele did not beat her in the Black community; she defaulted. She did not lose among Jewish or Black voters, just won weakly with modest turnout, and that's enough. She should have been extra humble because she had, in fact, never won one single election in her own right. Not once; Bentley had kicked her ass bloody in a purple-leaning blue district once or maybe twice, I forget.

Her name should be used to shame young Democratic children into obedience, loyalty and discipline.

He used to be a liberal lion. I love Teddy, and it's nice to have one senator who doesn't embarrass me. That said, his biggest two moves over the last eight years have been helping pass No Child Left Behind, and agitating for a second-class "guest worker" status for some immigrants. Neither of those is particularly liberal...or even helpful.

Teddy ain't what he used to be.

And how many people will be moved to vote by the opinion of Caroline Kennedy?

You know what I was thinking this morning? Somebody get Maria Shriver on the phone. THAT would be a cool endorsement.