One day Kerry is explaining why he met with Vietnamese Communists outside Paris while our nation was at war with them. Another day he is caught cussing a Secret Service bodyguard. In that scrape, he also was caught claiming he does not fall off his skis, though reporters saw him fall half a dozen times. Now he is entangled in a row over whether he, a pro-abortion Catholic, should be taking Holy Communion. Then too there is the question of how much he paid a barber from the celebrated coiffeuse Cristophe to cut his hair before he appeared on ?Meet the Press.? The talent was shipped to Pittsburgh before Kerry appeared went on the show. The authoritative Drudge Report insists the price was $1,000. Kerry insists he is being victimized by the radical right -- his predecessor in victimhood, Boy Clinton, endured a Cristophe scandal too.
It is 1992 all over again, and I rejoice. Yet I doubt many Democrats share my joy. Some are even wondering if they have settled on the wrong candidate. The left-of-center Village Voice recently predicted the Democratic ?biggie? will jettison John Francois for a more reasonable candidate. The Voice mentioned Dr. Howard Dean. The Vermont enrage would satisfy me.
Still, whatever happens to the Kerry candidacy, one important matter ought not to be lost from sight. Kerry?s problems stem from the fact that he is a fantasist. He has created illusions about himself and then believed his own illusions. He gets in trouble with reality because for him, the only reality is his fantasy, the fantasy that he is a great man and -- oh, yes -- that European leaders have talked to him and told him they hope he wins in 2004. Remember that little fantasy?