Now the question must be asked....

Does Howie Carr( that poor dear) have Alzheimer’s disease or what?
His column today was a maudlin exercise in senile wish fulfillment, in other words he thinks it is 1988 and John Kerry is somehow Howie’s favorite whipping boy Mike Dukakis.
Kerry so Carr reasons is doomed for the same reasons that the Duke was brought low, not that Howie can recall any of the increasingly hazy details.
Never mind the fact that I can recall with the simplest nostalgia that Howie was PANICKED at the thought that the Duke would cruise to glory that November.
Nonetheless it was heady happy time for the runty little bastard all in all.
It is easy to see why, back in 1988 Howie was on the brink of achieving his life’s dream, running the Duke out of office and running his mentor the late Jerry Williams off that sweet sweet drive time spot.
Now it is sixteen long terrible years later, the ex-wife ran off the big screen teevee and the plaque has built up so thick in Howie’s noggin the neurons need snow shows to complete a coherent thought.
Yup it has been nothing but high winds and empty spaces since the heady days of Evelyn Murphy and Dan Quayle….do torturers and sadists pine for their departed victims?
Howie does….it is nauseating but also a little sad.
He actually thinks the “Swift Boat Vets for the Truth” (that strange ragged collection former supporters and endorsers of Senator Kerry) are getting a raw deal from the “lamestream media”….plaintively he asks why no one will listen to their rants and fulminations?
The old Howie Carr would’ve realized these bums are a bunch of paid hacks in the making….now though, the Herald’s once feared columnist sounds tired and whiny.
His sense of humor is ebbing away and that my friends is a sign of senile dementia, frequently it is the last thing to go.
Howie ought to retire, there is still room over in Youville for a self proclaimed “tabloid guy”. He needs to think about this because the man has made some serious enemies down through the years. Sooner or leater they will pick up on his labored breathing and depleted strength and circle around for a great reckoning.
It won’t be pretty my friends….Youville though, there is still time to depart therein and retire in dignity like the Kaiser to his pea patch in Holland.