Kerry takes another look at presidency. Says loss in 2004 made him tougher

The Boston Globe ^ | 3/11/06 | Rick Klein

[LdSentinal]

WASHINGTON -- As Senator John F. Kerry prepared to make a return to presidential-style politics with a classic day of New Hampshire campaigning, he said that the 2004 run left him tougher and more eager to fight.

''When you get knocked on your ass and lose a race, you've got to stop and reflect on what you're doing, why you're doing it, what matters, and what's important. And I did," Kerry said in an interview in his Senate office on Thursday. ''There's a very different John Kerry now who is absolutely crystal clear about how I communicate what I need to communicate. . . . People are going to be looking for leadership."

Kerry's efforts to launch another presidential bid have prompted grumbling from some Democrats, who question whether a second Kerry candidacy would be good for the party -- or even realistic. Some party insiders expect that leading fund-raisers and strategists will push Kerry out before the race starts, in favor of a fresh face for a party desperate to retake power.

But in most respects, the Massachusetts Democrat has never stopped running for president. He has maintained an aggressive financial operation that, since the end of the last campaign, has raised nearly $4 million for Democrats in races across the country, and has sent $3 million of his own campaign funds to help other candidates.

[TexasCajun]

Hey! I like that! ...looks good enouh for Dan Rather or CBS News.

[Yaelle]

Losing made him tougher? What is he, magenta now -- no longer pink?

[purpleland]

"Kerry said in an interview in his Senate office on Thursday. ''There's a very different John Kerry now who is absolutely crystal clear about how I communicate what I need to communicate. . . . People are going to be looking for leadership."

Unfit John Kerry was very "crystal clear" that his presidential "leadership" would defer to the United Nations and to "global consensus." !!! I should have realized that Swivel Brain Kerry was in New Hampshire, but I thought the vile whiffs were from a Maoist pig farm. We in NH (and in Mass) know what flatulence emits from the elistist phony and traitorous John Kerry.

[NordP]

"Leopards don´t change their spots and traitors are still traitors.

Your post was SO good, I had to re-post it!

[silverleaf]

People are going to be looking for leadership

Move along folks, nothing to see here.

Brokeback Democrat Candidates

[Not A Snowbird]

So many snappy comebacks, so little time.

[purpleland]

"Kerry has been more active in the Senate. He pushed through better benefits for families of veterans"...."

After 20 plus years of wallowing in passive elitism and absenteeism as a senator, "more active" might be worse.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

''When you get knocked on your ass and lose a race, you've got to stop and reflect on what you're doing, why you're doing it, what matters, and what's important. And I did,"

"The fact is I'm a horsefaced loser who lives on a dead Republican's money and I have no shame"-- the perfect Democrat nominee

[pepperdog]

I think he has. He has come to believe his own lies. Totally weird guy now out of touch with reality. I wonder what Trezza thinks of this development, will she become Heinz-Kerry again or is she through trying to fool the "little people"?

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

IMHO, that form 180 will get signed the day after the last VN vet gets buried or the dims think that they've figured out a way to silence us all again.

Only other maneuver left for the Glob is just to rewrite 'Nam completely out of the history books.

[Radix]

Let this A$$hole keep saying things such as our Troops are terrorists, and more to show how tough he is.

This fool is absolutely delusional.

[hgro]

John, merda is what it is, soft and smelly - an apt description of you.

[RightWhale]

absolutely crystal clear about how I communicate what I need to communicate

Let me say this about that: things need to be said and ideas communicated.

[raccoonradio]

With one of the Brothers Bulger

[zbigreddogz]

Run Kerry Run!

[hinckley buzzard]

Speaking of himself in the third person? I thought that was trademarked by Bob Dole.

It is a sign of intrinsic weirdness.

[gop_gene]

Johns boobs are perkier...

Not to mention lopsided . . .

[DannyTN]

Made him tougher? Probably, There was no where to go but up!

[gorebegone]

You forgot the animation!

[Boazo]