What is most frustrating about Kerry to me is that he, well not him but his position(s), is like an apparition, you see him and try to grasp him and he disappears only to reappear somewhere else. I was trying to describe this frustration this morning to my wife, to find a term that best fit, and I used "backseat driver." (This term replacing a week long use of kibitzer.) But even this wasn't quite right, because a backseat driver never honestly tries to take the wheel.

But in trying to 'whack the mole', I read Jonah Goldberg's article. It is the best I have seen; I think he finally hit Kerry smack on the top of the head with his "future-past perfect". (hat tip Betsy)