A Rabbit

John Kerry has either done something very stupid, or something totally brilliant.

His remarks about a lack of education and forward vision leading to invading Iraq were directed at Bush, not America's men and women in uniform.

Even if John Kerry believed military personnel to be rubes (As some progressives no doubt do) he would not be stupid enough to say so in public.

It's also hard to imagine that he can fuck up the delivery of a fairly simple joke about Bush. (Bush not being a particularly difficult guy to take the piss out of).

So what's happened?

Republicans, who have been infamous for their smear are now focusing it on some guy who isn't even running for congress.

Look at it this way. They're going to smear Democrats anyway. Most of the smear will be lies, as the Swift Boat for Truth thing was in 2004- but they're going run a nasty, oversimplified disgrace of a smear campaign anyway, so why not offer up some rabbit for them to chase?

Hillary gets to go on TV and say how much she supports the troops, every other Democrat gets a chance to distance themselves from this spent presidential candidate. Everybody's happy.

If he did this on purpose he's a fucking. genius