Trippi on Kerry

Joe Trippi (Howard Dean's campaign manager) is covering the convention for MSNBC. Today Trippi writes that the Kerry campaign has fallen asleep, just like it did in 2003 when Dean caught him. This snippet of Trippi's article briefly made my heart sink:

I know something else about the Kerry campaign: I know when John Kerry and his team’s backs are to the wall that no one is better, stronger and more tenacious. They proved that in Iowa when they came back from the dead.

Here's the catch, though: If this were a prize fight, Bush would be ahead on all cards in the 10th round of a 12 round fight, and his opponent would be beaten up and fatigued. Kerry is really going to need some sort of a roundhouse that comes out of nowhere in order to win this. The Bush team pulled out the rope-a-dope earlier this summer; now, like Ali, I think they may be unstoppable.