He’ll Fight That Sucker In A Phone Booth

On Monday morning I wrote a post called Cold-Cock Him saying that I hoped the Kerry campaign would metaphorically stalk across the ring and slam Bush right in the nose on the day after the convention and change that storyline immediately.

It looks like they are going to do just that. Atrios has the link to the prepared remarks and they are very tough. As TAPPED notes, Kerry announcing this speech on the day of Bush’s speech seems to have knocked them off their game a little bit:

CNN, 8:42 P.M.: The Kerry campaign has begun to make an impact with the press conference they’ve announced tonight. At midnight, John Kerry will begin returning fire with a surprise press conference, for which they’ve already released excerpted remarks. It’s all over the cable shows; Karen Hughes is on the defensive on CNN right now, and the first question that set her back was on the press conference. They’re late to the party, but it is possible that they brought punch.

Even more intriguing, Ryan Lizza at TNR says:

…tomorrow there will be a significant announcement from the Kerry campaign about a new media buy that will be far tougher than anything Kerry has done this year.

I’ve been hoping for “My Pet Goat”, but whatever it is, I’m looking forward to it. I think timing is important and perhaps laying out a bit and then stepping hard on Bush’s night was smart. The press corpse is slavering over the notion of a knock down drag out fight and Kerry is making a big show of it.