OK, that I would've liked to have seen.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The SOB hasn't worked in 20 years, why should he start now?
It's weird, earlier today I pitied the guy, now I feel oddly enraged at this effete, phony billionaire gigolo, who spent 3 and 1/2 months in Vietnam, came home and trashed our troops while they were fighting their hearts out, undermined Reagan's policy in Central America on behalf of a child-molesting Stalinist creep, voted over and over again to raise the taxes of people vastly poorer than himself while his benefactress paid a lower tax rate than most of them, and then tried to convince America that he was all about "A Stronger America."
Hey, I wonder if Alex Polier is going to move back from Kenya now?
Gee... you mean he might even show up for work once in a while?
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Kerry's running mate, the boyish John Edwards, said they shouldn't concede, the fight wasn't over.
But the more mature, 60-year-old Kerry would have none of it.
"He instantly made the decision that he didn't want to put the country through any lengthy litigation," Cahill said later. "To go forward [with a lawsuit] in a time of war — that was something he didn't want to do."
So, the man who collaborated with the North Vietnamese didn't want to litigate the election in wartime, but the boyish John Edwards did.
Let's never forget that.
Eager to get back to doing what he has done for years, Nothing.
Uh, yeah. Instantly. Just 12 hours after the networks called it.
This is the same team that ran with the premise that Bush hesitated for 7 minutes on 9/11 by reading the goat story.
OK, that I would've liked to have seen.
Doing what? Based on his accomplishments in the Senate I guess that means there's a bill pending proclaiming the Oak as the national tree.
Or at least the only one that realized it's not a good idea to become Al Gore.
>Does he have a "Real Job" then?
Maybe his real job is holding Mama "T" wallet.... OH, one more job of course, probably holding 'her' up so she won't fall down. I say she always looks drunk or like she just woke up... my boyfriend says it looks like too may pills, or too many of those fancy white raisins!!!
Funeral, rally - with Dems who can tell?
Wouldn't you just love to be there when sKerry reports for "duty?" I suppose there will be quite a twinkle in the Vice President's eyes when he welcomes his wandering employee back to work ... probably will have to show him where his desk is.
>This is the same team that ran with the premise that Bush hesitated for 7 minutes on 9/11 by reading the goat story
DITTO!
At least they had Bon Jovi to play the funeral march. I'll bet he felt like he was shot through the heart, and Bush was to blame, because he gave Kerry a bad name.
AMAZING GRACE !!
I thought the girls went directly outside afterwards, not backstage. Are we sure they did this?
> It's not like he has accomplished anything
> worth mentioning in the last 20 years.
That is true. If GW was paying Kerry to lose, he sure got his money's worth.
Good thing the dems had no intention of winning.
Three hours later — just more than 24 hours after Kerry arrived home and patted the ground at Hanscom Air Force Base — the Democratic nominee went to Faneuil Hall to concede.
Strategists, aides, staffers and family were still stunned — some openly cried, others just drooped from exhaustion and disappointment.
"It sort of slid away slowly over the course of the evening and then the morning," said a visibly upset Bob Shrum, Kerry's senior adviser.
Har, har!!!!
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