Posted on 11/08/2004 7:14:55 PM PST by Ahriman
Democrat John F. Kerry plans to use his Senate seat and long lists of supporters to remain a major voice in American politics despite losing the presidential race last Tuesday, and he is assessing the feasibility of trying again in 2008, friends and aides said yesterday. Kerry will attend a post-election lame-duck Senate session that begins next week and has said he is "fired up" to play a highly visible role, the friends and aides said. Aides said Kerry is relishing the prospect of renewed combat with President Bush, fighting such measures as the president's proposal to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Kerry has spent the better part of the past two years on the campaign trail, meaning that his return to Capitol Hill will be something of a reintroduction to colleagues. Kerry's plans contrast starkly with the approach taken by former vice president Al Gore, who all but disappeared from the political scene after losing to Bush in the disputed 2000 presidential election. Kerry fueled talk about a 2008 bid during remarks at a Washington restaurant Saturday night. He provoke a thunderous reception by reminding about 400 campaign aides and volunteers that Ronald Reagan twice sought the Republican nomination for president before winning it in 1980. "Sometimes God tests you," Kerry told the crowd at H20, a restaurant on the Potomac waterfront, according to an aide. "I'm a fighter, and I've come back before."
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I can see him returning and saying: Do you know who I am? :)
I'm sure he could use the rest.
He's planning on showing up?????
"Excuse me, I'm John Kerry. Could you tell me where my seat is?"
"Fired up"?
More like, "pissed on"
"Sometimes God tests you"...
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
Will he need a visitor's pass?
Maybe, if Kerry is lucky, he'll actually get to meet Dick Cheney.
as opposed to john edwards, who is just fired.
I wonder if Mrs. Kerry bought him a new box of crayons.
We passed not just any test - we passed the Global Test!
Aw, not this again.
Oh goodie, he can dust off all his old favorites, file bills to cut defense, intelligence, NASA ...
So Senator, when will you sign the form 180?
Is that true? Why did he do it? was it around the time of the Depression? (Not his depression. The Depression of the 30's)
Hillary v. Gore v. Kerry fight in '08. That should be interesting.
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