Kerry's Beginning To Realize He Lost

...and he ain't a happy camper.

Failed presidential candidate John Kerry was boiling mad at Senator Mark Dayton after the Minnesota Democrat publicly touted Senator Hillary Clinton at a Democratic Party fund-raiser two weeks ago as "the next great president of the United States."

"What are you doing endorsing my 2008 presidential opponent?" Kerry fumed in a confrontation with Dayton on the Senate floor two days later.

Um, because Marvelous Mark wants his party to win next time, perhaps?

God, I wish I had a tape of this.

But wait - maybe Lurch was just joshing. After all, he's famous for his self-deprecating sense of humor, right?

Wrong, caviar-breath.

"He was very serious," Dayton told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, saying that the 2008 presidential hopeful had "daggers in his eyes."

Cartoon ones, no doubt. And they were probably followed by little cartoon erupting volcanoes.

So Dayton must have gotten an uncontrollable case of the giggles anyway, right? Either that, or, seeing "daggers" in Kerry's eyes, Brave Sir Robin, a man famous for his stalwart courage and unparalleled steadfastness, surely fled in stark raving terror, right?

Wrong, fish & chip-breath.

The former Kerry backer reportedly responded, "As Winston Churchill once said, I'd rather be right than consistent."

That's right, ladies and gents. Arguably the biggest buffoon and coward in the Democrat party - a duality for which there is a great deal of fierce competition these days - dissed Big, Bad John straight to his face.

Or, in this case, his adam's apple.

Talk about a taste of the humiliations to come.

But the cherry on the sundae is this bemused quip from a Hillarynista:

Contacted by the New York Post, Senator Clinton's office had no comment on the episode. "Boys will be boys, even when they're senators," a Clinton friend told the paper.

Do this sound like the Clinton machine is sweating Lurch II?

Sequels, as a general rule, never do as well as the original. And Kerry's original fell short.

His ego will never accept that. Which is why he's running again in 2008.

And that's why his sweating has only just begun.