JOHN KERRY DANCES, BUT PRO-HOWARD DEAN BLOGGERS ARE CALLING THE TUNE! Cross a blogger at your peril:

• Just how testy are relations between the supporters of dueling Democratic presidential candidates Howard Dean and John Kerry? Darned testy, it seems.

Yesterday Dean-loving Web-logger Scott Moore, proprietor of the Points West site (www.pointswest.blogspot.com), savaged the Massachusetts senator for running campaign advertising on the site of Democratic nemesis Matt Drudge, the political equivalent of Satan..

“This frightening couple: John Kerry and Matt Drudge. Ewwwww, ick ,” Moore wrote. “[A] candidate for the Dem nod giving this right-wing nutbag DOLLARS raised in the Dem Primary to post banner ads on Drudge Report? Heck, Kerry might as well buy Drudge a bow and arrow decorated with Donkey Feathers.”

Yesterday Kerry spokesman Chris Lehane told us that ad was mistakenly placed on Drudgereport.com by Google, which has a contract with the Kerry campaign to direct ads to various Web sites based on their editorial content and audience. Drudge has published a great many items about Kerry, but none has been particularly flattering. After our inquiry, the ad was pulled. “Now Google will not post ads on Web sites without our approval,” Lehane said.

Heh.