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What will it be, Senator Kerry?
The Boston Globe ^ | November 19, 2006 | JOAN VENNOCHI

Posted on 11/19/2006 6:46:03 PM PST by MassachusettsGOP

THIS TIME, it will be harder for John Kerry to have it two ways. He can't be for and against a presidential campaign. The pressure is on to choose: Will he run for president or Senate in 2008?

Kerry can't be a presidential nominee and candidate for US Senate on the November 2008 ballot -- a longshot, but still a technical possibility. The state Legislature and governor could change the law, as Connecticut once did for Senator Joe Lieberman. But that seems unlikely, and Kerry seems disinclined to find out.

Kerry adviser Ed Reilly said, "With the end of the year coming up, the senator has indicated that he will begin to turn his attention" to a decision about '08. "The first step will be consultation with Senator Kennedy and other colleagues," Reilly said.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2008; doofus; halp; kerry; liveshot
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To: Seruzawa
Is it true that he served in Vietnam?

I thought Nixon sent him on a secret mission to investigate Cambodian prostitution rings (or something like that).

I think the syphilis he caught in the line of duty went dormant all these years but is finally gone to the tertiary stage and is rotting his brain.

p.s.
Can you get a purple heart for sticking your pecker somewhere it shouldn't be while on a secret mission?

Wait, don't answer that, I'll ask Bubba Clinton. He prolly knows the answer backwards and forwards, er, off the top of his head.

41 posted on 11/19/2006 7:40:39 PM PST by benjaminjjones (Happy Thanksgiving all! Go home, see the family, eat too much, & hava safe trip. Turducken Rules!)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Patty Murray, who was once named by a liberal publication as one of the Ten Dumbest Members of Congress . . .

One of the ten dumbest members??????? She's way ahead of Barbara Boxer, who comes in a distant second. I don't even think the senator elects from Missouri, Minnesota and Ohio will change the order, but I'll bet that at least two of the three will make it into the top ten.

42 posted on 11/19/2006 7:43:40 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
Putting aside the fact that he is insanely out of touch with reality thinking he could actually win, I would love to see him run again...and lose...

P.S. Really what planet is he on that he actually thinks he has a shot?
43 posted on 11/19/2006 7:50:35 PM PST by Bush Revolution (Hawaii Conservative)
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To: Vigilanteman

Don't forget Casey -- he combines the brains of Chafee with Kerry's work ethic. PA only has one Senator now.


44 posted on 11/19/2006 7:51:02 PM PST by LenS
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To: RayChuang88

I was there, and I proudly booed, along with all the hard-working middle class folks around me.


45 posted on 11/19/2006 7:54:59 PM PST by MassachusettsGOP (May the West and Republicans Always Win...)
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To: MassachusettsGOP
Rule Number One: Massachusetts Hack Politicans don't retire.

Maybe MA Democrats could convince him to take the retirement path of so many other MA hacks: the Mass Turnpike Authority or Massport. Can't you just see him taking tolls on the Pike? Or standing in the middle of Logan's main terminal telling people he served in Vietnam. LOL!

46 posted on 11/19/2006 8:02:21 PM PST by Reaganesque
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To: kinoxi

ala Dr. John: "Balls fixin' jam for breakfast."


47 posted on 11/19/2006 8:02:59 PM PST by Rudder
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To: MassachusettsGOP
Boy, that photo caption is more correct than they realize: "...former Vietnam Vet John Kerry (LEFT)..."
48 posted on 11/19/2006 8:04:41 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again. And Always Act.)
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To: Reaganesque

Fifty cent brain, covered by a $400 haircut.


49 posted on 11/19/2006 8:05:11 PM PST by JRjr (hMMM?)
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To: rabscuttle385

Well we are already in h3ll, what with Devil getting ready to run the place!


50 posted on 11/19/2006 8:08:56 PM PST by gidget7 (Political Correctness is Marxism with a nose job)
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To: MassachusettsGOP
"a longshot, but still a technical possibility"

That should be his campaign slogan.

51 posted on 11/19/2006 8:16:09 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: gidget7

Even better! Now we have brought the fight to evil's own home turf...


52 posted on 11/19/2006 8:20:17 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Sic Semper Tyrannis * Allen for U.S. Senate in '08)
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To: Clintonfatigued
This guy actually ran for Caucus Chairman for his fellow Senate Democrats and lost to Patty Murray, who was once named by a liberal publication as one of the Ten Dumbest Members of Congress.

Not just one of the dumbest. THE dumbest. By vote of Capitol Hill staffers.

53 posted on 11/19/2006 8:26:55 PM PST by freespirited (The MSM is the root of all evil.)
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To: LenS
Casey has the sense to keep his mouth shut and be thought a fool. Kerry and Bin Murray are constantly opening it and removing all doubt.

I didn't see a single campaign commercial this cylce where Casey said anything other than "I'm Bob Casey and I approved this message." I am wondering how many cuts he had to do to record it flawlessly. Still, he IS brighter than the people who elected him.

54 posted on 11/19/2006 8:28:47 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Reaganesque

Id spit on my quarters if I knew Liveshot was there at the tolls.


55 posted on 11/19/2006 8:37:36 PM PST by MassachusettsGOP (May the West and Republicans Always Win...)
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To: Seruzawa

No, he didn't SERVE anywhere.

He got a couple hang nails and a self-inflicted-due-to-stupidity and/or perfundity wound . . . and purple hearts for all 3 . . . . and displayed his chronic genetic terminal stupidity . . .

but he was far too arrogant, selfish, vain and . . . did I say STUPID . . . to serve anyone but his own ego.


56 posted on 11/19/2006 9:23:32 PM PST by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: MassachusettsGOP

The current headlines on the C-SPAN homepage. Even here Kerry reminds me of a 'botched' punchline:

· Bush opens stock exchange in Vietnam (AP)
· Kissinger: Iraq military win impossible (AP)
· House Democrat wants draft reinstated (AP)
· McCain says more troops needed in Iraq (AP)
· Kerry: 'Botched' war joke won't hurt me (AP)

Updated: November 20, 2006 - 12:00:02 AM ET More Headlines »

http://www.c-span.org/homepage.asp

It may as well read:
Kerry: "What, me worry?"


57 posted on 11/19/2006 9:39:44 PM PST by leadpenny
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To: MassachusettsGOP

Kerry Says “Botched Joke” Won't Affect 2008 Election

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) insisted that his "botched joke" in which he U.S. troops were morons when he meant to say President Bush was a moron won’t undermine his bid for the presidency in the 2008 election. "Not in the least," Kerry said when asked if the furor over his comment had caused him to reconsider a 2008 race. "The attention span of the American voter is incredibly brief. If they had remembered what I’d said about U.S. troops in 1971, I would never have won the nomination in 2004. Heck, if I had remembered what I’d said in 1971 I wouldn’t have voted for me either. Thankfully, time obscures the past.”

read more...

http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm


58 posted on 11/19/2006 10:18:33 PM PST by John Semmens
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To: Seruzawa

If memory serves me right, seems he might have mentioned that he was in Nam.


59 posted on 11/19/2006 10:57:04 PM PST by top 2 toe red (~**~ I liked Tuesday, November 7, 2006...a lot, lot better before the votes were counted. ~**~)
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To: MassachusettsGOP

This man might be good at appealing to rich women but he has little to no ability to understand and relate to average people. He is so dense it is hard to understand how he has reached this far. Ted must have mentored him and the women must have financed him.

Not enough to make it all the way under the bright lights of presidential candidate scrutiny.


60 posted on 11/20/2006 3:36:12 AM PST by shrinkermd
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