By Scott Stanley Jr.
Washington insiders are saying that John Kerry is proving to be the laziest presidential candidate since Adlai Stevenson. For three days he has been hiding out at his wife's pickle farm in Pennsylvania without receiving important visitors of any kind, and tomorrow he heads for speeches in Cloquet, Minn., and Boomer, Wis., before stumping in Iowa river towns. Then it's back to one of his wife's mansions for Independence Day, remaining there Monday with nothing scheduled. There is speculation that Kerry will name a vice presidential running mate on Tuesday, but nothing is formally scheduled.
As one political pro put it: "The campaign is apparently operating on the premise that the less the public sees of this guy the better he will do. People just don't like him." Or, as former New York Times editor Howell Raines put it, Kerry has the personality of the Addams Family butler, Lurch, had he gone to Choate.
Washington insiders are saying that John Kerry is proving to be the laziest presidential candidate since Adlai Stevenson. For three days he has been hiding out at his wife's pickle farm in Pennsylvania without receiving important visitors of any kind, and tomorrow he heads for speeches in Cloquet, Minn., and Boomer, Wis., before stumping in Iowa river towns. Then it's back to one of his wife's mansions for Independence Day, remaining there Monday with nothing scheduled. There is speculation that Kerry will name a vice presidential running mate on Tuesday, but nothing is formally scheduled.
As one political pro put it: "The campaign is apparently operating on the premise that the less the public sees of this guy the better he will do. People just don't like him." Or, as former New York Times editor Howell Raines put it, Kerry has the personality of the Addams Family butler, Lurch, had he gone to Choate.
