Hopping Down the Bunny Trail

Hard to imagine the bunny suit having legs. Little footies, with rubber pads, maybe, but not legs.
In case you missed it, what happened was that John Kerry visited NASA for a town hall meeting, and did a tour of some of the facilities and equipment. Everyone who does this has to wear a clean suit. Clean suits look funny. They are sometimes called "bunny suits."

Well, things happened, just like some of those frat parties I attended in the 70's. Pictures were taken, and dignity was lost.

The Dems aren't handling it well.

Mary Beth Cahill (Kerry's head keeper) actually accused NASA, and (presumably) the Repubs of leaking these pictures. She claimed that there was a promise that there would be no pictures. But, if you look at the pictures, it is clear that these were posed. Team Kerry may even have asked for the photos to be distributed.

Mr. Kerry should perhaps get some training in camera recognition, maybe study silhouettes so he can tell the different types (still photo, video, movie, etc) , and then see if he can pass the crucial "no camera at all" test that Ms. Cahill has in mind.

People seem worried that the bunny suit will evoke Dukakis, and the bobblehead in a tank film. That is certainly what the Repubs are going for. But Bush wore a bunny suit also. Still, Kerry could look bad, by comparison, I suppose. But the comparison doesn't work very well. What about Bush in a flight suit?

Rush Limbaugh claimed that Kerry looked like a sperm cell from Woody Allen's "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex." He may have a point.

But the real problem is the possible violation of the Hatch Act. It is not clear that the Hatch Act was violated by Kerry's town hall meeting at NASA, and that is the problem. How in the world are you supposed to campaign, if you can't tell what the law is?

Al Gore's "No controlling legal authority" bit, on using White House phones to call out for fundraising was widely mocked, but he was right. Our campaign finance system is nuts. It needs to be taken apart, and then blown up. Reinstate the First Amendment. The current system? No bunny understands it.