Byline: MAUREEN DOWD
BOSTON -- So here's the race: The Skipper takes on the Sheriff.
(And, of course, the undercard in the fight: Bambi meets Godzilla.)
Talk about drowning in metaphor.
At least Teresa Heinz Kerry kept her subliminal message simple: She wore a ketchup-red suit to introduce the second senator in her life.
Her husband, as usual, went overboard. The Democratic convention, which was focus-group-dial-a-metered to death, needed a dose of Dramamine. It was awash in allusions about Cmdr. Kerry steering the ship of state -- from the curved design of the metal and wood-paneled lectern, meant to evoke a ship's bridge; to the …
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