DUKAKIS ALERT!

“I smell the same New England genius that I smelled in the Dukakis campaign in 1988,” Mr. Austin added. “Kerry wants to run as a man of the people, and where do they put him for photo opportunities? Snowboarding in Sun Valley, shooting skeet in the Ohio valley, and windsurfing off that great working-class vacation paradise, Nantucket. Democrats – at least Ohio Democrats – play softball and touch football.”

And this is in a piece by R.W. Apple. Is the establishment giving up on Kerry?

UPDATE: Of course, some people think there’s actually a strategy where those photo-ops are involved.