His last comment as the camera was cutting away from him was something along the lines of "I am just trying to save my Party".
Too little, too late. The Dem'Rats are really shooting themselves in the foot this year. Stunts like Kerry refusing a press conference for five weeks (and counting), the forged documents, etc., will hopefully turn off the Pat Caddells of the party, and if they don't go to the GOP, at least they'll drift away from the Socialist Democrats.
Likewise, as the Dems' policies get more and more extreme-left, they should (hopefully) lose some of their more centrist members.
I'm not saying the party will implode and cease to be, but gradually we should see a shift towards a long-term GOP domination of the House and Senate, much like the Dems did from the 1930s until the revolutions of 1980 and 1994.