I think it’s probably too late to stop Kerry from getting the nomination. But here’s a little tidbit that may end up being Bush’s greatest advantage. No one likes John Kerry. I’ve now met a fairly wide assortment of liberals, Democratic activists, reporters, scribblers etc over the last year — in green rooms and at cocktail parties. And while none of my conversations were on the record, I can report that there’s an astonishing amount of animus towards John Kerry. Lots of reporters just hate the guy. They think he’s arrogant and condescending (largely because he is). Even Democrats who were terrified of Dean winning the nomination because they feared he’d be unelectable, want nothing to do with Kerry. Obviously, this isn’t a universal sentiment. But it is a very real factor. But once the media gets over its shame for misreporting the whole Dean boom-that-wasn’t I predict they will turn on Kerry very hard. We’re already seeing a little of it now.