Humor at Bob Kerrey’s expense

Published January 26, 2012 5:00am ET



After a long tenure as president of the New School in New York City, former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., is considering running for his old seat once again.

This morning, the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent out an email, beginning with this amusing sentence:

In case you missed it, I wanted to make sure you saw that Bob Kerrey’s hometown newspaper The New York Times wrote a profile story on him this morning.

For what it’s worth, the profile is here, and it ponders this very issue:

[A]s Mr. Kerrey decides whether to enter the race after a decade out of office, Republicans have pre-emptively taken to the local airwaves to point out what they believe to be a glaring weakness — Cornhusker roots or not, this is a man who calls Greenwich Village home.