Flip Flop Du Jour

Because he'll win Vermont and Massachusetts anyway, but he really needs to win Wisconsin: "Kerry drops support for dairy compact"

INDEPENDENCE, Wis. -- Senator John F. Kerry took a step away from New England in his quest for the White House yesterday, as the politician known for his patrician roots highlighted his farming past and said he no longer supported a program that propped up prices for New England dairy farmers.

The man of the people warmed up the crowd with a tale about how he tilled the land from the back of a John Deere tractor:

The first farm was where Kerry rode a tractor with a hand who worked the family's property. At the dairy farm, he tilled the land himself.
At the time, Kerry's parents lived in Europe and he attended boarding school in Switzerland, but he returned to Massachusetts on vacations, [Kerry spokesperson Stephanie] Cutter said.

Manual labor was jolly good fun!

At least Kerry used the correct verb tense when explaining his flip-flop:

"I plead guilty. I did vote for it, because I represented Massachusetts," Kerry said. "I was a United States senator, and I was working in a context that we were living in a number of years ago, and that's the way we saw the world.

That's right.