Is Glenn Reynolds (MSNBC) on the Karl Rove payroll?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3395977/

A KERRY MELTDOWN?

Kerry's post-convention week hasn't been very good. An effort at an impromptu photo-op with some Marines he met at a Wendy's went sour, with the Marines complaining that he "imposed on" them and saying that they preferred Bush. Photos of Kerry in a bunny suit at Kennedy Space Center -- undignified, perhaps, but harmless in themselves -- became a liability when Kerry's campaign manager claimed that their release was a "dirty trick," only to have it come out that the Kerry campaign had asked for their expedited release. Oops!

It's gotten so bad that some people are questioning whether Kerry is smart enough to beat Bush, and some Bush critics are almost hoping that the terrorists will do what they fear Kerry can't: "I would express the Machiavellian hope that things should get visibly worse in Iraq until election day, then dramatically better from November 3 on."

But this is just the beginning. This advertisement by Swiftboat Veterans for Truth (you can watch it online by following the link) cuts to the heart of John Kerry's biggest campaign tool -- his claims of Vietnam heroism. It features medal-winning veterans who served with Kerry saying that he's no hero, and can't be trusted. If Kerry hadn't built his whole campaign around Vietnam, that would be old news. But having made Vietnam the centerpiece, and having played it up at the convention to the point where even Democrats were complaining about the militaristic overtones of his acceptance speech and the surrounding pageantry, Kerry won't be able to dismiss this sort of thing as ancient history. He'll have to face it head-on.

Will he be able to do that? He'd better. That won't decide the race, exactly. It'll just decide whether there's a race at all.

[madrchsod]

1. yes

[Nite Owl]

2. He's gotta be.

Kerry had a terrific week while the Bushie's* are imploding all over the place.

[featherman]

3. Oh, THAT guy!

Yeah, he's an RNC operative and hit man. I never read anything he writes. I have to watch my blood pressure.

[w13rd0]

4. Ah, a resident...

...of Bizarro World...

[chascarrillo]

5. I do know he likes the WWII internment

See: http://instapundit.com/archives/016935.php

[The Zanti Regent]

6. Please! WHO on BS RNC is NOT a Whore???????

Take your time...

[Protected]

7. Kerry's campaign "not a big hit on the road"

What campaign is he watching? I see the one with regular crowds of 10 to 30 thousand people...

[Warren DeMontague]

8. He's a Right Wing Ass.

A fairly well known blogger friend of mine used to respect him somewhat, now thinks he's completely full of it. My buddy's theory is that the majority of the blog-reading public is white guys in cubicles who skew conservative, so ol' instapundit plays to his audience. The man absolutely refuses to cover or link to anything that doesn't fit a right-wing, sexually repressed, limp-d*ck starched shirt white guy worldview (you know, the kind of folks we used to call Clinton-haters).. Anyway, he's about as unbiased as FOX news. Feh. Double Feh.

[kodi]

9. oh that quasi econ prof running that nutbag site instapundit?

useless as teats on a bull.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Unless I'm mistaken

it's one and the same.

[bluedog]

11. hes a nut case

Glenn Reynolds

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Glenn Reynolds, also known as Instapundit (http://www.instapundit.com/)


is a law professor at the University of Tennessee, where he teaches constitutional law, administrative law, and Internet law. He is the author of numerous law review articles on subjects ranging from Chaos Theory and the Supreme Court's decision making to the regulation of nanotechnology, and of two books: "The Appearance of Impropriety: How the Ethics Wars Are Undermining American Government, Business and Society," (The Free Press, 1997) and "Outer Space: Problems of Law and Policy" (HarperCollins, 1998). His popular writings have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and Legal Affairs.

He also produces the techno-band Mobius Dick, and writes for various music-related publications.

[Zynx]

12. WTF?! Where does he get that crap.