Kerry: "He looks like Lurch."

William Saletan writes this about John Kerry:

Much of Kerry’s problem is superficial. He’s as stiff as a GI Joe.

He’s infatuated with the 1960s. He keeps talking about “our generation” to an electorate that is no longer of his generation.

He speaks the language of the Kennedys, which now sounds flowery and phony. He adorns his prose with words like “lavish” and “astonishing.” He calls the audience “my fellow Americans.” He tells them he’s “honored to join you in this endeavor.”

For the thousandth time, he begins a sentence with the pointless preface, “And I say to you today …” At another point, he proclaims, “Let me put it plainly: If Americans aren’t working, America’s not working.”

This is what audiences always have to wade through to get at whatever it is Kerry is trying to say: Nuggets of nothing, wrapped in pretentious rhetoric, compounded by the pretense of plain speaking.

My fifteen-year-old son spotted this in Kerry a year ago. "He looks like Lurch."

On the other hand, he was keen-on-Dean right from the start.