First, Raines insults W’s intelligence in the WaPo:

Does anyone in America doubt that Kerry has a higher IQ than Bush? I’m sure the candidates’ SATs and college transcripts would put Kerry far ahead. Yet, at this point in the campaign, Bush deserves an A or a high B — instead of a gentleman’s C — when it comes to neutralizing Kerry’s knowledge advantage.

He, or more likely Karl Rove, has triggered Kerry’s taste for complicated ideas and explanations. Kerry is telling us that we live in a complex world. Americans know that, but as an electorate, they are not drawn to complexity.

My advice to the president is to misspell some something if he sends Raines a Christmas card.

Then, Gore Vidal in the Nation, who really believe in the bizarro-world America of my post below:

In 1972, I begin: “According to the polls, our second principal concern today is the breakdown of law and order.” (What, I wonder, was the first? Let’s hope it was the pointless, seven-year–at that point–war in Southeast Asia.) I noted that to those die-hard conservatives, “law and order” is usually a code phrase meaning “get the blacks.”

While, to what anorexic, vacant-eyed blonde women on TV now describe as the “liberal elite,” we were pushing the careful–that is, slow–elimination of poverty. Anything more substantive would have been regarded as communism, put forward by dupes.

But then, I say very mildly, we have only one political party in the United States, the Property Party, with two right wings, Republican and Democrat.

Kerry can’t keep his sports teams straight, via Captain Ed. How do you think these two birds, Raines and Vidal, would do?

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