Kerry Still Thinks He'll Get the Nod in '08

NewsMax.com ^ | 2-13-06 | Staff: News Max

[no dems]

Kerry Still Thinks He'll Get Nod in '08

If at first you don't succeed...

A former top campaign fundraiser to Sen. John Kerry insists that when the smoke clears in the race for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president, Kerry will once again be the party's nominee.

Here's the scenario the aide outlined for NewsMax:

Hillary Clinton is the front-runner and she has the money and the organization to capture the nomination.

Other potential candidates, including Joe Biden, Evan Bayh and Mark Warner, don't have the money and will run out of cash before the race is over.

Not John Kerry, however. He still has millions of dollars left over from his previous campaign - plus the financial support of his billionaire wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, who can afford to pay whatever it might take to keep Kerry in the race.

In the end, then, it will come down to Clinton vs. Kerry.

But Clinton is "too polarizing" to win the nomination, the fundraiser told NewsMax, leaving Kerry to get the nod.

When asked if Kerry himself wasn't "polarizing," the aide pointed out that if just 60,000 Bush voters in Ohio had voted for Kerry instead, the Massachusetts Democrat would have won the election.

"He's a proven vote-getter," the Kerry supporter declared.

If the scenario plays out, Kerry could also wind up as the first Democrat since Adlai Stevenson to come out the loser in two presidential elections.

[nopardons]

Since when? SINCE ALWAYS!

Any candidate for anything, always gets to keep the money he/she has raised for a run. Usually, when they lose, they give at least part of it, to the national committee.

[petercooper]

classic

[petercooper]

[johnny7]

The Moveon.org wing of the Dem party is stronger than you think.

[x]

Has anyone ever won a presidential election after being defeated in the general election?

Nixon's the one.

If you go back far enough, there's Jefferson and Jackson.

Grover Cleveland who won, then lost four years later, and won again four years after that is the all-purpose exception in US politics.

Usually losing Presidential candidates who run the next time do worse. That's true of Adlai Stevenson and William Jennings Bryan.

There's hope if you wait long enough and take one election cycle off. That's what Nixon did.

The other possibility is if you run against a very popular incumbent and lose and then try to take out a weaker candidate. But even that didn't work for Tom Dewey.

[bill1952]

I certainly hope that you are right.

[johnny7]

Priceless.

[MikefromOhio]

But then, I wonder if it would be as easy to defeat him the second time around as people think?

Depends on how much of the 58 Million or so that voted for him do you think was ABB voters (anyone but Bush)??? I think it was a significant amount which probably won't be solid for the Dems.

[TheForceOfOne]

[no dems]

Don't forget, George Soros spent $25 of his own money last time and got nothing to show for it. I just think the libs are out of step with the rest of the nation.

[no dems]

Love your tagline.

[Fintan]

 

Four more years, four more years...

[bitt]

har har hardy-har har Lying Traitor ping!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Karl Rove knew, Nov. 7, 2004 , that hanoi kerry would try to run in '08
and knew Swift Boat Vet's would be called upon,
again, to serve our country.

Rove Credits Swiftvets With 'Energizing' Bush Vote (Thank You Karl Rove!)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1345603/posts

[Calpernia]

[ChadGore]

Re:There is some sort of mental disorder unique to failed presidential aspirants. Kerry is only the last in a long line that includes Gore, Gene McCarthy, McCain, Buchanan, Edwards and last, but not least, Stassen.

[Calpernia]

>>>When asked if Kerry himself wasn't "polarizing," the aide pointed out that if just 60,000 Bush voters in Ohio had voted for Kerry instead, the Massachusetts Democrat would have won the election.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684634/posts
Ohio Voting Problems Deemed Severe

[Gucho]

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFLMAO....Kerry has totally lost touch with reality!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

So what would Richardson's immigration policy look like?