Though Kerry did not directly criticize his friend Bob Shrum, it's clear he did not feel well served by his message makers and speechwriters.
Kerry wanted to show a letter from a schoolgirl that had been left on his stoop. The letter read, in part, "John Kerry, you're the greatest!" Kerry looked into the reporter's eye. "The pundits have never liked me," he said. "Is it the way I look? The way I sound?"
In the heady days before the election, Kerry's top aides sat around picking a cabinet. Nowadays the foreign-policy team still meets on the assumption that it could be reconstituted for '08. But the reality is, "it's mostly sitting around some lawyer's office and asking each other if we've heard about jobs," says a member of the team.
As for Kerry, says this adviser, "he thinks he's the frontrunner for '08 without recognizing that he needs to do some soul-searching. If he wants to come back, he'll have to come back as a different candidate, not the stiff who plays it safe and takes four sides of every issue."
Good grief. Yet another dysfunctional Democratic candidate! We'd have had another four years of a national therapy session!
If he wants to come back, he'll have to come back as a different candidate, not the stiff who plays it safe and takes four sides of every issue."
I've already saved ALL my bookmarks to a CD just in case he pops his head up again.
Me too. I think Kerry was the last gasp of the MSM and the old establishment Dem Party. But they couldn't make a silk purse out of this sow's ear!
ditto
Kerry was the most non extremist and palatable candidate the dims offered.
What went wrong? The democrat party.