CNN did something fairly unusual just now, questioning him from the right instead of just harping on the horse race. But it always seems to come in this threatening tone, as in “you know the Republicans are prepared to dump their oppo files on your head.”

As usual, Jeff Greenfield did it best, asking how Kerry on what issue he will step away from Democratic orthodoxy. Kerry’s answer was amazing: he said it was unorthodox to suggest the deficit was a bad thing in 1985. Did he say 1985? That was his first year in Washington. If he spoke up, nobody heard him. He can’t come up with anything else in the last 20 years?