On the merits

From my new favorite blog, The Premise:

...John Kerry is the only politician considering a run in 2008 who scares everyone from Hillary Clinton to John McCain, because he’s actually qualified to be president. He knows it, they know it, and the voters know it.

Everyone else wants to have a personality contest, but if John Kerry runs they can’t. They’ll have to campaign on the merits, and they can’t beat John Kerry on the merits.

Campaigning on the merits. What a concept.