Posted on 01/21/2006 10:17:02 AM PST by summer
John Kerry -- POLITICS: The election may have ended more than a year ago, but someone forgot to tell John Kerry. Michael Crowley talks to the Democrats who wish he'd just go away
...There was just one problem: John Kerry.
Without checking with his partys leaders, Kerry scheduled his own response to Bush, which was to take place at 11 A.M., precisely the time that Reed was scheduled to respond. In Senate strategy meetings, mild panic ensued. ...Rather than make way for Reed, though, Kerry agreed to appear with him at a joint press event. Plenty of Democrats predicted what came next: Kerry was droney and repetitive, ...
The bitter clincher came on that nights Daily Show.... Cut to a shot of Kerry stammering, then back to Stewart. Kerry? You went with Kerry?
After more footage of Kerry rambling incomprehensibly, Stewart stared at the camera and screamed, No one understands you! The next day, a link to the clip bounced among the e-mail accounts of angry Senate Democratic staffers.
... But Kerrywho Democrats almost unanimously say is keenly interested in running for president again in 2008keeps reminding people of the bad old days...
...Joe Lockhart, Bill Clintons former press secretary and a senior adviser to Kerry last year (and who, like so many top advisers, had a strained relationship with Kerry during the campaign), adds, He talks like hes still running. I dont mean hes keeping his options open but that he has every intention of still running.
...But whats arguably more bizarre is how obvious it is that the guy Democrats chose to lead them to the promised land is no longer a member of his partys A-team.... ...
(Excerpt) Read more at men.style.com ...
skerry has got to be at least as drunk, stoned, or nuts as his wife is.
Looks like 'Dims Bury their Living, Part 49' to me.
That's what I figured. If the truth doesn't suit their cause, they just go and make up a new one...pathetic.
"Kerry isn't using logic."
Kerry CANNOT be logical because he is cognitively disordere.
"He is using his ego. Any party that would select a sitting senator to run for president has not paid attention to history. Senator have no executive experience."
Does this historical insight also apply to ny senator hillary clinton. (no initial capitalization is a form of sarcastic insult.)
"But hey, let the dems keep trying. As for the RNC, I hope they are no dumb enough to pull a Dole 1996."
Oh, agagh! The Dole-Drums! (That's when I voted Libertarian!) The Republican party needs the spark of youthful inspiration and the vibrant commitment to America's true heritage. Someone who isn't intimated by the leftist ad hominem warfare and who is willing to verbally bitchslap a brat-mouth "liberal" whining the leftover democrat partylines.
It's not that we just need new blood in the Republican party, we need Republicans WITH conservative BLOOD and HEAT in their veins.
"LOL! You left out the fact Ben Laden used Kerry's talking points to make his latest audio tape."
GOOD PoINT! I am still trying to figure out whether its the Muslim terrorists or the Democrat party dictating the propoganda script to the MEDIA.
I was wondering this morning what John Kerry would have done about Iran if he had gotten elected.
Kerry doesn't have logic. He has ego.
He has faked his entire life as a JFK clone and he believes he should be annointed.
I actually hope Kerry runs in the primaries. It will be interesting to see if Dem voters kow-tow to their nameless Dem party leaders, or make their own decisions about their national candidates. In fact, I hope Al Gore runs, too. THAT would be an interesting primary season!
I'm not sure how is left but unless both side run a senator the non-senator almost always wins.
Great article.
Seems to me that Kerry is as delusional as Pataki.
Yes, my junior senator hillary clinton is in the same boat. For the life of me I don't know why the NY GOP didn't take her seriously. They should have done everything to crush her in the first election. A hard enough spanking and she would have left politics forever. Now we have to life with her for as long as she wants to remain in the senate because the NY GOP can't field a powerful enough candidate.
"I was wondering this morning what John Kerry would have done about Iran if he had gotten elected."
i think he would have first ordered an attack and then cancelled the attack in favor of a nuanced strategy, then conferred with our European allies and the UN, and added some more nuances. then he would have saluted the flag, pirouetted, and gone back to his office.
Bravo!
"Does this historical insight also apply to ny senator hillary clinton."
Yes, my junior senator hillary clinton is in the same boat. For the life of me I don't know why the NY GOP didn't take her seriously. They should have done everything to crush her in the first election. A hard enough spanking and she would have left politics forever. Now we have to life with her for as long as she wants to remain in the senate because the NY GOP can't field a powerful enough candidate.
NYCity politics: generational communist elites living on trust funds.
In retrospect, Thank God.
I highly doubt we would have been blessed with 8 years of GWB had we endured 4 years of "president dole".
"Bravo!"
Thanks. I note that my anger got ahead of my syntax, but I am glad you got my points.
1968 was a one-off election year, with Johnson withdrawing, MLK and RFK assassinated, the turbulent democrat national convention and the independent candidacy of George Wallace.
you know why the dems and libs are freaking out all the time? they lost an election to a man they consider to be a moron... they convinced themselves that Bush was a moron and that they were morally and intellectually superior and LOST. They were so geared up for the 2004 election and maximized their turnout and LOST.
Skerry is so irrelevant it is odd that we would waste time on him. He is a model of the elite left: I know better than you do demogogic,fuzzy moral compass as his guide: makes him somewhat interesting. I hope he runs in '08 along with Dean and Edwards. A contest to see (oh, and algore and shrillary) who is the biggest loser.
ÂHe thinks itÂs about him, says a former Kerry campaign aide who had significant responsibilities in a key swing state. ÂHe thinks all those people worked so hard and gave so much of their time because of him. And that is a gross misreading of the situation. I think heÂs under the illusion that over 50 million Americans voted for him, as opposed to the reality that they voted against George W. Bush.Â
Excellent point.
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