Posted on 04/23/2005 10:19:02 AM PDT by bitt
Kerry Wants A Mulligan
The New York Post's Deborah Orin has an amusing account of John Kerry's anger over Senator Mark Dayton's apparent endorsement of his rival for the '08 nomination, Hillary Clinton:
A fuming John Kerry had "daggers in his eyes" after a fellow Democrat promoted Hillary Rodham Clinton for president — suggesting the 2004 loser is green with envy at a potential rival. The flap was touched off two weeks ago when Clinton spoke at a Minneapolis Democratic dinner and Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) told the cheering crowd that he was introducing "the next great president of the United States."
Two days later, Kerry came over to Dayton on the Senate floor "with daggers in his eyes and said, 'What are you doing endorsing my 2008 presidential opponent?' . . . He was very serious," Dayton told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
The most striking thing about this story to me was that Kerry and Dayton were simultaneously present on the Senate floor. Rumor has it that Kerry is so determined to run again in three years that he has resolved, after twenty years in the Senate, to begin actually performing his duties there.
Kerry won't be the Dems' nominee in '08. If last fall's election proved anything, it was that Kerry isn't a very good Presidential candidate. The Dems weren't in love with Kerry last year, but turned to him in a panic when Howard Dean imploded. Kerry is finished as a Presidential contender, I think, but he could perform one last valuable service. If he is really so determined to run again that he is angry about losing the endorsement of Mark Dayton, who is retiring next year and by 2008 won't be in a position to influence any voters outside his immediate family, Kerry might be fired up enough to go after Clinton hard during the primaries. That would make his candidacy worthwhile.
Orin's column concludes on this pathetic note:
Meanwhile, Kerry — and his outspoken wife Teresa Heinz Kerry — are increasingly claiming he was robbed last November and should have won. On second thought, there might be method to Kerry's madness. Normally it would be a bad idea to base one's campaign on an appeal to voters who are delusional. But at the rate the Democrats are going, by 2008 that group could represent a majority of the party.
Posted by John at 08:20 AM
LT ping
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/4/23/103000.shtml
Saturday, April 23, 2005 9:26 a.m. EDT
Kerry Blasts Hillary Backer
Failed presidential candidate John Kerry was boiling mad at Sen. Mark Dayton after the Minnesota Democrat publicly touted Sen. Hillary Clinton at a Democratic Party fund-raiser two weeks ago as "the next great president of the United States."
"What are you doing endorsing my 2008 presidential opponent?" Kerry fumed in a confrontation with Dayton on the Senate floor two days later.
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"He was very serious," Dayton told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, saying that the 2008 presidential hopeful had "daggers in his eyes."
The former Kerry backer reportedly responded, "As Winston Churchill once said, I'd rather be right than consistent."
Contacted by the New York Post, Sen. Clinton's office had no comment on the episode. "Boys will be boys, even when they're senators," a Clinton friend told the paper.
Dayton is hardly the only former Kerry fan who's deserted the fold.
A survey last month of Massachusetts residents conducted by KRC Communications Research showed that 51 percent of Bay Staters now back Mrs. Clinton, with just 33 percent in Kerry's corner.
Is that a new word for Lap Dance? heh!
Pity, this poor fellow.....a no one, going no where, having done nothing of any import.
Kerry are you delusional or are you lying your @ss off?
Now if we can only convince Al Bore to run, that would be the "Mother of all Trifectas"
Only Kerry could get himself so worked up over a slight by someone as inconsequential as Mark Dayton, who made such an idiot out of himself by running out of DC with his tail between his legs over a non-existent terrorist threat, that he has to give up what would normally be Senate seat for life.
Give him a mulligan? Hah! Better a 9-iron, wrapped around his Botoxed forehead.
Kerry is like Stella Dallas's daughter at her birthday where no one shows up.
I agree with you---If Kerry is wound this tight right know, he may implode by 2007---and he is questioning the temper of John Bolton?
know=now OOPs, sorry!
At first I thought it said he wanted a MULLET!
Looks like Johnny and Al can form a band and sing "They done me wrong" duets...
<< Pity, this poor fellow.....a no one, going no where, having done nothing of any import. >>
Definitely a poor, even a kept, fellow -- and absolutely a no one and going nowhere.
But I dunno about the latter 'bitt' of your contention.
I'da thought that this living walking breathing manifestation of evil -- by his having pretty-much single-handedly seen to it that the United States of America appeared/appears to and is almost universally believed to have "lost" a war in which it was not defeated in a single battle -- and by his having, by virtue of his apparently self-loathing based, envy-motivated, hatred-engined and rage-driven malfeasance and by his having spent his entire post-red-diapered doper baby infancy as Human History's most-efficacious enemy agent -- seen to the alteration of our beloved FRaternal Republic's very psyche -- has achieved something of import the nature of which is right up there with the "somethings of import" of only the likes of the twentieth century's more overtly-evil men.
With the fascisocialistic monsters, Marx and Lenin and Hitler and Stalin and Ho et al, at whose collective tit his Alger-Hiss-companion parent saw him nourished -- and at whose feet he slavers still!
I sincerely hope kerry runs hard and long in 08, and drags hillary into an expensive, nasty, and very damaging primary campaign. Run, Forrest, Run! Pump those crazy legs!
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