Posted on 05/29/2007 9:00:58 AM PDT by seanmerc
John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, voted for the Iraq war resolution in 2002 after weighing the political ramifications and being told by his future campaign manager that he would never be elected president in 2004 unless he sided with President Bush on the issue, according to a forthcoming book by Mr. Kerry's former strategist. The book by veteran Democratic Party strategist Robert Shrum, titled "No Excuses," paints a portrait of an often-dysfunctional Kerry presidential campaign in which senior strategists clashed with each other, the Boston Globe reports. An advance copy of the memoir of Mr. Shrum's years in politics, slated for release in early June, was provided to the Globe. Mr. Shrum provides a vivid description of events leading up to Mr. Kerry's decision to vote for the war. He writes that Mr. Kerry telephoned him on the eve of the Oct. 11, 2002, vote. Mr. Shrum said that Mr. Kerry was skeptical of Mr. Bush's claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that he "didn't trust Bush to give the diplomatic route a real chance." Nonetheless, Mr. Kerry asked Mr. Shrum whether he would "be a viable general election candidate if he was in the small minority of senators who voted no." Mr. Shrum wrote that he told Mr. Kerry that it was "impossible to predict the political fallout if we went to war." But he wrote that Jim Jordan, Mr. Kerry's former Senate press secretary and future campaign manager, "was insisting that he had to vote with Bush." Mr. Shrum wrote that Mr. Jordan had "hammered" Mr. Kerry with a warning: "Go ahead and vote against it if you want, but you'll never be president of the United States." Mr. Kerry voted for the war resolution, and Mr. Jordan became Mr. Kerry's campaign manager three months later.
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I believe others have dubbed it “The Curse of the Shrummy.”
Good line - I’m taking it and pretending it’s mine. Yuk Yuk
Of course, it could just be the candidates and their messages are bad too :) Supposedly, he has “helped” candidates in NON-Presidential races (big city mayors...).
GREAT point. Maybe his family had an intervention and he figured out more money from becoming a writer than ruining csmpaigns.
Thank you, the picture you posted says it all! Lurch in full form!
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