JOHN KERRY HAS FALLEN…AND KEEPS GETTING UP [GQ: Kerry wants to run in 2008; Dems say NO]

GQ ^ | Jan. 21, 2006 | Michael Crowley

[summer]

Re post #32 - Actually, I think it is both: the Dem leaders --

1) truly are embarassed that Kerry lost to GW; AND

2) thus, they have concluded Kerry is a dork/doink. Or whatever.

I think Kerry was so unprepared for dealing with media he made Dean look like a pro.

Also, there is so much in-fighting among Dems; it is difficult for undecided, swing voters to join in with a party constantly at each other's throats. I realize the GOP does not always agree among its members, too; but with Dems it seems more continuous and more vicious, especially when you have a Nader running, too.

[summer]

Here in New England the best that REAL PEOPLE can say about John Kerry is that he is a prime phony.

True; Kerry did not seem able to comfortably connect with "the little people" as some have called regular voters. His wife didn't help matters.

[badgerlandjim]

"...and tell your mom I said you kids could all come over and play
in front of my house... if I hadn't had the hydrant removed..."

[BunnySlippers]

The author, Michael Crowley, writes for LOTS of papers and publications. It's not necessarilty that it's in GQ ... it's just that GQ bought the article. Besides, I always love reading Esquire.

[denydenydeny]

how obvious it is that the guy Democrats chose to lead them to the promised land is no longer a member of his party’s A-team

It's getting to be like a James Bond movie: "So, Number Two, you have failed." *chair electrocutes Kerry*

[purpleland]

:...You also still find intense anger over unexpected things, like the nearly $11 million Kerry had left in his campaign account after—yes, after—election day, which even some of his top aides had no idea was there."

$11 million was North Korea's unused portion.

[summer]

Anyway, seems to me this article was written specifically to reach KERRY. On behalf of the Rat establishment, this author was delivering the message in no uncertain terms to KNOCK IT OFF. DROP OUT. SHUT UP. They are pulling out all the stops to help Kerry put them out of their misery.

I have to say the same thought crossed my mind, too. But, my impression was not that the writer disliked Kerry; however, just about everyone the writer chose to quote in the article (and there are plenty of quotes) dislikes Kerry. Such quotes coming from one's own party, in page after page -- well, that's gotta hurt!

[summer]

Re post #30 -- Here's the last two paragraphs of this 8-page article:

...Perhaps it was an insignificant moment. Or maybe it symbolized something important: a general sense among Democrats that no one is particularly interested in hearing from John Kerry anymore.

Either way, the circle of senators remained closed, and after a few more moments, John Kerry, the man who for a few hours on November 2, 2004, believed he was president of the United States, looked around awkwardly and tugged at his shirtsleeve. Then, finally, he did the thing that he hasn’t been able to bring himself to do on the larger stage. He put his head down and walked away.

[Luke21]

If you are a Dem, the left believes you should automatically win and gives you one chance. Then you are given the playbook, the message, the pop culture, massive unreported monies, dead voters by the thousand, and the media. In their mind, "Who could lose with all those advantages?"

Republicans nominate retreads sometimes, and very often people that have ran in the primaries before. But the only actual nominees to get more than one try were Nixon and Dole. Bobdole made a career of running for president. He ran the year Reagan was elected in 1980 and got about two votes. He always stunk up the place. Yet the GOP foisted him on us so Clinton could be re-elected. Great job, Bob. Go sell some Viagra.

Kerry is going nowhere in a party of fanatics, nuts, and diversity whackos. They blame him personally for the last loss. One of the liberals' most pointed defects of character involves a lack of forgiveness. Kerry is toast.

[cubreporter]

Go, go....go Johnny go...go, go...go Johnny go etc. heh, heh.

[summer]

One of the liberals' most pointed defects of character involves a lack of forgiveness.

I hate to say it, because I would like to believe all people can be forgiving, and are forgiving, but -- I think you have something there.

[wouldntbprudent]

I definitely think they are trying to reach Kerry with articles such as this one. Not that they dislike him. It's just they don't want him to run again; they know he's a loser.

[purpleland]

"If the Dems see what a doink Kerry is now, why didn't they see it before? .... "

Congressional members sat with senator John Kerry for 20+ years and not one member vomited in protest against this traitor. The democrat party employs THE "LIBERAL" MEDIA SHIELD.


"What's up with that party?"

The proSocialist Democrat party is NOW being true to its neoMarxist ideological self since the leftist faction usurped the once American democrat party about 1963. Conservative traditional Americanism is neither a radical activism nor is it a conspiracy. It is the LEFT that conspires against America.

[JerseyDvl]

I was LMAO when I read that myself. He is really giving "grass roots" a whole new meaning when he is blogging with commies.

[hershey]

Read it yesterday on FR and laughed until I cried. Worth reading again and again, esp. if you're from MA and your Junior Senator is now talking about going to Iraq to try and free that woman journalist...ala Jesse Jackson. Kerry is the most hated man in America...by Dems. Hilarious. No longer a member of the dem A team!!! Will save this article, and the next time I'm feeling depressed about anything..will savor it.

[hershey]

Kerry's used to living off Mrs. Heinz's fortune, where nobody says NO to you. He's convinced he's worth however many billions the missus inherited.

[hershey]

Kerry's a tightwad.

[Balata]

LOL! You left out the fact Ben Laden used Kerry's talking points to make his latest audio tape.

[hershey]

The dem primaries this time should be really amusing. The dems are terrified that Kerry will divide/mess up the 'message'...queer Hill's chances at the nomination. That's why the hit piece in GQ. They want HER. They also mentioned in the article that AlGore certainly, definitely, really, truly isn't running. For Sure! I guess he's not on the A team, either.

[hershey]

Not true. Kerry never signed and released that form. The last we heard, his 'aides' were examining it. Then it disappeared down a black hole.