Posted on 06/01/2006 7:41:58 PM PDT by bitt
By Howie Carr Boston Herald Columnist
John F. Kerry - how can we miss him when he won’t go away?
A lot of people in both parties are hoping that America’s Gigolo will run for president again in 2008 rather than seek re-election to the Senate.
Kerry would inevitably lose and be forced to retire to private life, after which Mama T would soon boot him out of all six of her first husband’s trust fund’s mansions.
The next time we would see Kerry he’d be back to sleeping in his old Bob Brest Buick.
That would be a happy ending, to be sure. Too bad it’s not in the cards. The problem is, the political calendar.
Here’s how it works: Iowa caucuses, January 2008. New Hampshire primary, February 2008. Can we agree that Liveshot is not going to win either? So it’s over. So far, so good. But here’s the hitch: After he’s elminated, he has until May to decide whether he’s going to run for a fifth term in the Senate.
What do you think he’ll do?
But no one will speak truth to power, as he likes to say. None of his coatholders dare tell the Gigolo that the gig is up. Why else would Rupert Murdoch suck up to Hillary Clinton? Why else would Bill Clinton sign to write a new book that’ll be coming out in 2008?
It’s hard to remember now, but Kerry first won an election with Mike Dukakis, and talk about the gift that keeps on giving - yesterday’s newspaper read like a bad acid flashback to the worst of the Dukakis era.
A Dukakis judge - Peter Agnes - brooms a drunken driving case, giving the boozed-up killer of a 4-year-old boy 18 months in the slammer.
Two Dukakoid political operatives - Paul Pezzella and Paul Giorgio - are charged with voter fraud in Worcester.
The state Senate again refuses to cut the 1989 Dukakis tax increase it promised to rescind all those years ago. And the Town Meeting in Brookline - the Duke’s hometown - considers a resolution demanding the impeachment of George Bush. The more things change . . .
Even now, the Duke’s other legacy, John Kerry, moves restlessly through the airports of America, and the indignant question echoes through the land: “Do you know who I am?”
Here’s a recent airport incident recounted to me by Col. David Hunt, U.S. Army (ret.), the best-selling author and Fox News analyst.
It was a Sunday afternoon about a month ago in D.C. that Hunt was returning from a convention, and Kerry was returning from, what else, a liveshot. Everybody was standing in line, waiting their turn to board the airline. Every passenger but one, that is.....
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
A call to Kerry’s office produced a tepid statement from an aide saying that didn’t “sound like something the senator would do.”
Riiight. I was going to use the anecdote a couple weeks ago, but then someone in Kerry’s family died, and I shelved it. So last weekend I run into Col. Hunt in a bookstore in Orleans and he asks me why I never printed the story. I explained to him what had happened, but he wasn’t buying it.
“I give you gold and you deep-six it,” he said.
Hunt and I were signing our books at a table, and the guy in front of us was a Coast Guardsman. He too had his own Kerry story - let me just repeat the pro forma staff denial that it didn’t sound like something the senator would do. Wink, wink.
The punch line of the story, which you probably already guessed, is Kerry bristling and asking the Coast Guardsman, “Do you know who I am?”
The good news: America’s Gigolo will never be president. The bad news: He’s senator for life.
Yes, indeed. The people of Massachussets are proud of both of their fine, upstanding Senators.
:-) Hehehe!
LT Ping!
"(John Kerry's) default position is the conventional wisdom of the Massachusetts Left:
on foreign policy, foreigners know best;
on trade, the labour unions know best;
on government, bureaucrats know best;
on defence, graying ponytailed nuclear-freeze reflex anti-militarists know best;
on the wine list, he knows best."
Mark Steyn
In that bunny suit picture, he looks so good with his kick-ass man-tan and his newly chisled teeth...remember how funny it was to have him disappear for a week and then deny that he had botox/man-tan/cosmetic dental work?????
Hunt's pretty funny! And Still my choice of Ketchup too.. :P
oh, that's great! Never saw that posted before...Steyn needs to move next door to me. And run for Senator, against Fatboy.
There you go again picking on one of America's great heroes.
:-)
Sorry, but I've never been able to find anything funny about the communist sob (even when he's wearing a bunny suit.)
Listened to Howie's Radio Talk show today on WRKO. He mentioned Freerepublic many times. Love your show, Howie.
watch it, you'll rouse Kenny Bunk!
yes, and he asked us to go ahead and post his articles frequently and IN FULL! Today the Boston Herald announced that it was no longer going to charge for reading their star columnists...so no more bugmenot.com for the Herald...
False, but accurate.
I like Hunt's too, but am going to try "W" Ketchup!
http://www.wketchup.com/news/
I will try it, if i can find it at the my grocery store. I have put in a request a while back. Still waiting. :)
Kerry & Kennedy
That's why is called Massoftwoshits.
Semper Fi
hanoi kerry went before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 1971
to accuse the United States military
of committing massive numbers of war crimes in Vietnam.
hanoi kerry 1971 TESTIMONY
http://www.c-span.org/vote2004/jkerrytestimony.asp
Legislative Proposals Relating to the War in Southeast Asia Thursday, April 22, 1971
United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.
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