John Kerry IS Wile E. Coyote!

Watching John Kerry trying to find something, anything to attack President Bush with that will help him garner enough votes to win reminds me of Wile E. Coyote from the Looney Tunes cartoons. Little did I know that when I took a look at Wile E.’s official biography that the similarities between him and John Kerry are striking. Consider this statement:

The luckless Wile E. comes up with increasingly elaborate and seemingly foolproof schemes to snag Road Runner who, oblivious to the danger, always eludes the pathetic coyote's painstaking plans.

I also discovered that the cartoon’s creator, Chuck Jones, and his cohorts wrote some simple ground rules for the creation of these cartoons. A few of these rules sound a lot like Kerry’s campaign strategy:

Rule 2: No outside force can harm the Coyote -- only his own ineptitude or the failure of Acme products. Wile E.'s ineptitude, possibly a by-product of his distracted obsession with catching Road Runner, is compounded only by the Acme company's products - which may work for other customers, but seem never to work for Wile E., who repeatedly risks life and limb counting on their effectiveness.

Which has been more damaging to Kerry’s candidacy – the efforts of Bush campaign or Kerry himself? I think Kerry has done as much if not more damage to his candidacy through his own incompetence than what others have done to him.

As far as the failure of Acme products, see Rule 7 below.

Rule 3: The Coyote could stop anytime -- IF he was not a fanatic. (Repeat: "A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim." - George Santayana) Of course he can't quit; he's certain that the next attempt is sure to succeed. He's the personality type that twelve-step programs are made for. Of course, first you have to want to quit.

Kerry’s willingness this week to continue to hammer President Bush on the missing explosives in Iraq – a story that has already proven to be bogus – is a sure sign that he doesn’t know when to drop back and change his strategy.

Rule 7: All tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme Corporation.

Substitue the New York Times, CBS, or any other mainstream media outlet for the Acme Corporation and you get the idea.

Rule 9: The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures. Easy for you to say.

Get the picture?

Apparently I’m not the only one who believes this comparison is valid. Look here.