Posted on 11/03/2004 11:29:07 PM PST by kattracks
BOSTON — Three hours after he woke up in his 19th-century Federalist townhouse on Louisbourg Square, Sen. John Kerry was told his lifelong dream to become the president of the United States had died in Columbus, Ohio.The news came in a phone call from Mary Beth Cahill, Ted Kennedy's hard-nosed chief-of-staff, who took over Kerry's floundering campaign in the primaries, when all but his most loyal supporters had written him off.
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But there was no way around it — there were just too many votes for Bush on the ballots being counted in the statehouse in Columbus.
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Rocker Jon Bon Jovi — who had traveled extensively with Kerry— sat behind the hustings at the Copley event with his head in his hands.
"Backstage was like a funeral," recalled one source.
Shortly before 3 a.m., Kerry operatives said the campaign would go dark for the night.
Kerry awoke four hours later — and immediately went back to work. At his request, Democratic lawyers in Ohio and Washington prepared to go to court in the Buckeye State to challenge the counting procedure.
But then it became clear the numbers were overwhelming. The Democrats determined that their earlier estimate that 250,000 provisional ballots had not been counted was extremely optimistic.
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Following the speech, the frustration of Kerry's daughters, who teared up during the concession after tirelessly stumping for their father, exploded backstage in a diatribe full of F-words.
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He still has four more years left in his current Senate term — and aides are not surprised that he's eager to get back to work.
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From the mouths of "babes"....
You two latched onto that before I could get to it. Says a lot about their upbringing and character.
Was she talking about that F'n candidate's catastrophic failure, I wonder ROFLMAO
HA!
What in the world for?????
It's not like he has accomplished anything worth mentioning in the last 20 years.
Wouldn't he actually have to have ever shown up to have something to get back to? I don't think he has been seen at a vote in 18 months, has he? He probably cannot even remember the way to Capital Hill.
Kerry lost ohio because he OUTSOURCED his GOTV efforts to 527 groups like moveon.org
Poetic.
A class act to the end?
The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.
I'm surprised he didn't go goose hunting or windsurfing while waiting for the returns to come in.
>and aides are not surprised that he's eager to get back to work
Work? Work, he hasn't shown up... but I guess it will be too cold to go windsurfing... LOL
I was being sarcastic.
I'm glad Kerry spared us the agony, but I hardly think it is some incredible gesture of statesmanship to concede an election that you clearly have lost. From this article, it looks like Kerry was one of the few grownups in his campaign.
and aides are not surprised that he's eager to get back to work.
get back to work. where does he work? not in the senate has not been there for some 2 years.
Does he have a "Real Job" then?
Of course, the information about what went on in Terayzah's house could only have come from the Kerry campaign.
On the other hand, the statements attributed to the Kerry daughters were uttered in public and probably show a truer picture of the mindset of all of the Kerrys.
Again with the @!@&&%ing plans.
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