It’s possible I missed something, but I haven’t yet seen any of my

colleagues admit to having underestimated Kerry. I sure did. In a

conversation with an NR editor just 3 or 4 weeks ago, I expressed

astonishment that Kerry, who at that point, as Donna Brazile so nicely put

it, “had no pulse,” should have taken out a humongous mortgage on his house

to help fund continued campaigning. I expressed the opinion that he must

have slipped into a delusional state. Well, here we are with Kerry riding

high, and it’s my own comment that looks delusional. What a game it is,

this politics!