Posted on 05/27/2006 11:34:52 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Richard Milhous Kerry?
As he prepares the public and himself for a possible second run for president, Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., is taking a page from the Republican playbook.
During a meeting Monday with the Eagle-Tribune newspapers' editorial board, Kerry cited Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan as examples of men who lost presidential elections before they won them.
"I am the only person running — thinking of running — who's been totally vetted," he said. "I learned a lot about how to do it. ... Other people have run several times, like Ronald Reagan, who ran three times, and Richard Nixon, who came close in 1960, lost a race for governor of California in 1962 and won (the presidency) six years later."
While the Frank Sinatra song talks about love being "lovelier the second time around," it's not clear whether that will be the case for Kerry.
His ruminations about taking another bite at the presidential apple are not being greeted with much enthusiasm.
Phone calls to the Democratic chairmen in the battleground states of Florida, Illinois, Missouri and Ohio requesting an interview about a possible Kerry candidacy were not returned. When asked about the wisdom of Kerry making another run, former Gov. Michael Dukakis had a tepid response.
"I wouldn't even begin to make a judgment at this point," the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee said in a telephone interview. "Our focus should be on 2006."
Kerry would also have to overcome the recent history of his party.
Adlai Stevenson, the party's standard bearer in 1952 and 1956, actually did worse the second time he ran. Since then, none of the party's unsuccessful nominees — Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Dukakis, and Al Gore — has been renominated.
Gore, who won more popular votes than George W. Bush did in 2000 but lost in the Electoral College, is dropping hints that his presidential ambitions may not be behind him. Think about it: Two former party nominees slugging it out with a former first lady who is among the most polarizing figures in American politics. Not to mention the presence of some rising stars from GOP strongholds — Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Indiana, and former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner — who will portray themselves as electable centrists.
It's too early to know if Americans will have the chance to cast their ballots again for Kerry. For though the junior senator from Massachusetts seems ready and willing to run in 2008, it is not at all clear whether voters will share that enthusiasm.
Wonder how Kerry would look riding around in a tank turret instead of a pilot house of PCF?
As long as John F'n Kerry refuses to sign an SF 180 or release all his military records that is a blatant lie.
Some people just can't take a hint...
What does he have crabs? Teresah must have been fooling around behind his back with the gardner... :D
Yeah... that will do it.
What a goof.
He feels he "came so close to winning" and his supporters think that rigged voting machines, etc., denied him the Presidency--and since he already has more money than he could ever need...
http://liveshot.cc/billions_and_billions.htm
...why not have a little fun and run again? As long as
Ta-RAY-za doesn't mind...
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