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.
LOL! I don't know my blood pressure of energy would hold up under another attempt by jFk.
Awwwwwwwwwwwww..why the long face John?
Wouldn't the combined egos result in a huge antimatter explosion?
P.S. Or imagine if you will a debate between John-Boy and the Hildebeast...
LOL...it WOULD be a beating, wouldn't it???
All I know is...if Kerry, Bayh, and Hillary are all they have to offer...then if the GOP can find a DECENT candidate...it shouldn't be close..
But, we know it will be...I find it so unbelieveable that the country is so close to being 50/50...what did 50% of our country learn in school??
Do you think he'd invade her space?
Remember how upset she got in the senate debate when her opponent approached her podium?
Gore and Kerry would be a droning, snoozer, but Hillary and Kerry would be a massacre and Kerry would be mincemeat. I doubt he'd even know what hit him.
John Kerry can be a useful idiot in the 2008 cycle if he forces Hillary into a Howard Dean moment. He will be useful even if he only succeeds in forcing her to spend money she would not otherwise spend. Let's keep him working for our side.
Somewhat irrelevant in light of the Electoral College. I'm am certainly not a Kerry fan but, as I recall, in the end it came down to Ohio. The election wasn't just about Kerry. As in every election, you have the 35% dedicated lefties and almost the entire MSM.
The GOP is blessed to have such horrible competition.
Like the GOP has a truckload of viable statesmen in their coral.
McCain would crush Hitlery or Kerry and as much as I don't like how McCain has acted I'd have to vote for him.
"No. Not THAT Forbes. Kerry is a scion, on his mother's side, of the Forbes family of Massachusetts, not to be confused with the Edinburgh by way of New York Forbes who's most prominent member is Steve."
Still...of the Republicans, I prefer Steve Forbes.
Awww, c'mon sleuth. You don't believe it has been that close do you??? Heck, with out the dead vote, the multiple voters, the illegals voting, the vacant lot voters, the discarded Military vote...it would have been a landslide!
Things are GREAT now! At least compared with being on the Goldwater end of the Goldwater/Johnson race like I was, some years ago. 50/50 is good odds, in my experience.
Had they pushed that, then we would have to examine the vote count in PA, WI, ME, OR, MN, MI and NH.
Hillary winnowing the crop.
Since birth. His grandfather and all, don't you know? The F in his name.
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