I actually agree with Martin Gibson that Kerry looks like Herman Munster, but I think Bush looks like Alfred E. Neumann, Mad's "What, me worry" kid. Since as I recall Herman Munster was a lovely, hardworking man, a good father, loving son, and even a great son-in-law, I'm not sure it's so bad to be like him as opposed to Neumann. I will admit, though, that I wouldn't choose to look like him.

Anyway, Larry K said that Joe Lockhart gave the "only honest reaction." I assume that's because he's a Kerry adviser who nonetheless didn't toe the party line that Kerry won hands-down.

Well, Time reports a similar hones reaction from a Bush adviser:

The Bush team would like to paint Kerry as incapable of handling serious issues of national security. Did they succeed? A Bush adviser put it bluntly: "We are on defense. We were counting on Kerry being Kerry and he came to play. We didn't expect that."

In other words, round one went to Kerry, according to the Bush team.