September 23, 2003
Flip-Flops Aren't Just Shoes
You know politicians are getting desparate when they resort to using baseball loyalties to attack their opponents.
Kerry's camp, reacting to news that Dean will hold a rally today in the senator's hometown, brushed back the former Vermont governor by claiming he's a New York Yankees fan.
Those are fightin' words, especially within four months of the crucial primary in New Hampshire, a key state in Red Sox Nation. Dean, who grew up in New York, says he dumped pinstripes for Red Sox three years ago.
"When you move to New England, you put your old loyalties behind you," said Dean campaign co-chairman Steve Grossman, a Massachusetts businessman. "You've got to have a sense of humor about this."
The "flap" began when Kerry's campaign said Dean's Red Sox switch was just the latest in his quest for the presidency.
"Of all the flip flops, this is the most inexplicable and indefensible," Kerry spokeswoman Kelley Benander said yesterday. "It's like switching from the Redskins to the Cowboys or from Carolina to Duke."
Dean told the Boston Herald that the Yankees accusation was the "biggest insult" hurled at him so far. He says Roger Clemens' beaning of Mets catcher Mike Piazza in 2000 was the final straw.
I expect John Kerry will lead a throng of his thousands of loyal supporters to the Dean rally tonight to chant, "Yankees suck!" That is, if Kerry actually
has loyal supporters.
Also, notice the caption below the picture of Dean. I thought he was running for a higher office.
Posted by David Pinto at
10:09 AM
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