Posted on 03/20/2005 6:29:03 AM PST by bitt
Some backers won't count him out. Others don't want a "shopworn" candidate.
WASHINGTON - John Kerry had come so close; on election night, before the dream died, his chief strategist had even said, "Let me be the first to call you Mr. President." Yet there he was on Inauguration Day, a mere spectator wearing a wan smile in the cold wind.
And when President Bush took the oath of office, Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa seated beside Kerry, placed his gloved right hand on the vanquished candidate's spine. He rubbed up and down, repeatedly. And as Bush intoned, "... so help me God," Harkin finished with a pair of gentle pats.
Those gestures spoke volumes about Kerry's sense of loss. And Kerry would not have the luxury of recuperating in private. He couldn't grow a beard and vanish, as Al Gore did; he couldn't go to Hawaii and teach college, as Mike Dukakis finally did. No, Kerry had to go back to his day job - becoming the first losing presidential candidate to return to the Senate since George McGovern in 1973.
But unlike McGovern, who stayed low-profile after a landslide defeat, John Kerry is already working hard on a resurrection. In a rudderless, leaderless Democratic Party, he is determined to fill the vacuum.
And don't be shocked if he launches another presidential candidacy in 2008, despite the fact that no U.S. senator has ever run, lost, and won a subsequent nomination. History notwithstanding, however, it may not be easy for Kerry to simply walk away, not after winning 59 million votes - although there are plenty of Democrats who wish that he would.
There he was Thursday, for example, in a Washington hotel, with that familiar ramrod posture, and the familiar portentous voice projecting...
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Duh, why not? Kerry could have quit his day job. Who would have missed him?
Oooh! Interesting...
Can the Democratic party be so ignorant that they don't realize the magnitude of their loss? While the election might seem to have been close, the constant stream of misinformation conveyed by books, provided by a willing MSM, facilitated by a disgruntled Hungarian billionaire, and marked by some of the most outrageous pandering by a presidential candidate STILL FAILED to place Kerry in the oval office.
The losses in traditional Democratic voting blocks are telling. Kerry is a deeply flawed candidate who has a history of mixing fantasy with reality when reality isn't good enough to salve his ego. A warmed over Kerry in 2008 is as appealing as a piece of rotting meat.
Even Hillary; a pig trying on new lipstick, yet still a pig, has a better chance.
I see a different picture, more like New York in 2000.
Spineless Dems roll over for Hillary and have no contested primaries.
Copies of those secret files are still in her posession and her agents are hard at work digging up dirt and prying open closets.
And he's been dogged by bloggers who want him to authorize the release of all his military records, to clear up questions raised in 2004. He told NBC on Jan. 30 that he would sign military form SF-180 to do so, but he hasn't yet. Most of the heat has come from conservatives, but Democratic blogger Mickey Kaus also is on the case, urging party brethren to "remove this increasingly pathetic figure from our national stage." (The word in Washington is that Kerry will sign the form soon.)
I guess the honeymoon is really over for Kerry-Edwards..
Kerry, it wasn't you. Nobody voted for you.
***Failed presidential candidates are like toilet paper--they're not reusable.***
Oh, GEEEEEEE! I should have know that was you, jonny, without looking at your signature. LOL!
"Precious and few are the moments we two can share..."
:-D
He probably meant to say "he'd be president today if only 60,000 Ohioans had switched votes SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASIER TO CHEAT"
"Let me be the first to call you . . .LOOOOOOOOOOOOSER!"
If the Democrats run a candidate from The People's Republic of Massashootme they have 2 possibilities for a candidate "Shopworn" or "Hopsworn".
Reagan came back, too.
That is utter BS!
amen to that. Some of my favorite people are Iowans and they deserve a lot better that Tom Harkin.
May God bless the state of Iowa with sound leadership.
Where does this 60,000 Ohioans number come from? Bush took the state by about 118,000, right?
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