Posted on 01/21/2006 8:57:17 PM PST by raccoonradio
John F. Kerry still dreams of becoming the next John F. Kennedy, but he’ll never even reach Ted Kennedy heights, or is it depths?
Not that anyone would ever dare tell Liveshot this. Seldom is heard a discouraging word when you’re a 62-year-old gigolo married to a 67-year-old gold digger worth close to $1 billion.
Ever more delusional, Kerry still fancies that his next job is commander-in-chief. He refuses to face the reality that he’s already well into his final role on the public stage.
He has become the Mike Dukakis of the 21st century.
John Kerry, reporting for doody - er, make that, duty.
The twilight of John Kerry is nicely sketched in an amusing new story about him in GQ, by a writer named Michael Crowley. Everyone in Massachusetts, including his ostensible supporters, knows what a complete fraud Kerry is and always has been, but it’s nice to see the news again reaching a national audience, even if it’s just in a fashion magazine for fops.
Poor John. Lately he’s been on his foreign tour - don’t ask me where; all I do is read the headlines, roll my eyes and immediately turn the page - and he’s still getting slammed back home.
One of the set pieces in the GQ story concerns a speech Mama T’s boy toy made at Georgetown University. It was pretty good, the writer says, but then the junior senator began taking questions from the students.
“The pain of it all came rushing back,” he writes. “Kerry’s responses were brutally long-winded, as if he were intent on slowly suffocating their earnestness with leaden filibusters. Eyes glazed. Yawns unfolded. Even the kids at the mike shifted their weight impatiently.”
Anyone who has ever suffered through a live appearance by Liveshot knows exactly this feeling. After 22 years in the Senate, the scion of the Forbes fortune is an empty suit’s empty suit, a windbag di tutti windbags.
Here’s another quote from the GQ piece, from an anonymous Senate staffer:
“There is this weird cognitive dissonance. You see Kerry in the Dirksen (Senate Office Building) cafeteria getting a salad, and you think, You were inches from becoming president, and now you’re getting your own salad. And it’s not even a good salad.”
Thank God - and the late Sen. Heinz’s trust fund - the junior senator will soon be back in his Sperry Topsiders biking down Hulbert Avenue on Nantucket, and if this parvenu wage slave had ever been to the Chanticleer Inn, he would know that their lobster salads are . . . to die for!
The GQ story mentions a radio interview in which an NYU professor says Kerry said he thinks the 2004 election was “stolen.” Apparently Kerry’s office denies this, but everyone here knows Kerry’s people have been saying the same thing for almost a year.
Amazing, isn’t it? The guy loses by 3 million votes, and he thinks it was “stolen.” It’s beyond cognitive dissonance. If his second wife hadn’t inherited a billion dollars, guys in white coats would be sneaking up behind him with a net.
But Kerry is running again, it’s his destiny, it’s why his initials are JFK. That’s why his equally crazy younger brother Cam Kerry wanted to run for secretary of state this year, to set himself up to run for what would have been the open “Kerry” Senate seat in 2008.
Anyway, it’s a funny story in GQ, and I can only hope it’s read by one group of people in particular - Kerry’s fellow snot-nosed, trust-funded Birkenstock-wearing layabouts who refuse to peel those absurd Kerry-Edwards bumper stickers off their new Volvos.
MOONBAT CONSERVATIVES are those who would rather lose to a liberal than support a moderate
I vote for the man or woman that I want not just another evil. Someday maybe you'll see that getting forked by the Republicans is like hitting yourself with a hammer. It feels so nice when you stop.
Don't fall for that. Bush won Ohio by 119,000 votes. Kerry won Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire by a combined total of 119,000 votes. OH = 20 electoral votes, MN + WI + NH = 24 electoral votes.
And the MSM has raised this issue, uh, how many times?
In addition, Kerry "won" PA by 145,000 votes and MI by 165,000 (similar totals as Bush win in OH) and the MSM has raised this issue, uh, how many times?
Don't forget Hawaii, which was only a 37,000 vote margin for Kerry.
Ohio was the only close Bush win that the MSM/Kerry campaign could team up with and use as an excuse to accuse GWB and Republicans of something...anything. Please understand that.
LIBERALS CANNOT ACCEPT DEFEAT OR REALITY
I have thought about it. That is why I say what I do. I wish to start early stating my position on John McCain, and fervently hope it will encourage others to indicate their rejection.
What I would like to see is Cheney step down some time next year and some prominent pol take his place.
I don't doubt it. He's got deliriums of grandeur, and she's got enough dough to keep them alive.
I don't know if he is done or not, but I am definitely attracted to the idea of sticking a fork in him!
How do you sell your soul?
To see men and women bargain their integrity for the love of power just continues to baffle me.
They lead lives of quiet desperation.
If the media is as powerful as you think it is, Hillary is a sure bet in 2008. The MSM didn't like Kerry, they love her. I think you overestimate the power of the MSM.
Never in the history of the left has so much money been raised and spent or more GOTV shoe leather worn out on the mean streets of urban America in an attempt to win the presidency.
Moreover, Bush was a relatively weak candidate by virtue of the war in Iraq. Using the MSM as a megaphone, the world's cultural elites joined voices in an attempt to bring down Bush.
And Bush STILL won by 3,000,000 votes.
it's not whether or not the media loves Kerry or Hillary... it's that they HATE Bush... they HATE conservatives... you underestimate the HATE they have for anything and anyone not LIBERAL...
The Herald is pretty much to the right on most things, but at times they are schizoid. Carr is their resident "wild man."
Their attempts at "fair and balanced" sometimes in my view leave them as appearing conflicted.
MSM HATE is meaningless if it cannot shape/influence public opinion. If the MSM can so easily sway American public opinion, then why are there GOP majorities in Congress and a GOP President? The MSM no longer has a monopoly on the news.
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