The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Wednesday, July 07, 2004  

THE COUNT BEGINS
Tarring and Feathering

The latest spin, origin unknown but take a wild guess, has a growing number of pundits and bloggers calling Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry “the most liberal senator.”

Notably, this attempt at tarring and feathering Sen. Kerry is often accompanied by a snarling reference to Massachusetts, that being a code word in certain circles. (An inexplicable code word, by the way: Mitt Romney, anyone? Anyone?)

And so today, at least at Rittenhouse, the count begins. The count is a simple, unscientific, and totally unreliable survey based on a Google search of the web employing the phrase “most liberal senator” and adding the word “Kerry.”

Today the search yields 1,600 hits.

Let’s see where we are a week from now.

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