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2005-01-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2005-01-03 1:37:58 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...he thinks he is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2008."

Oh, good God... yes, that's right, nominate the stupid sonofabitch AGAIN. Do it!! LOL...

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-03 2:06:38 AM|| 2005-01-03 2:06:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Kerry in 2008 would be a lot tougher to defeat because he knows where all the landmines are.

Posted by badanov 2005-01-03 6:06:22 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2005-01-03 6:06:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, that doesn't account for the landmines he didn't find. The thing about Minesweeper is that your chance of success NEVER go above 50%, and your chance of failure NEVER goes below 50%. The reason is that at the end, you're left with two spaces. You no longer have any clues as to which it is. It is as basic as yes or no.

Watch. He'll fall by some other means. Walter Mondale (substituting for Paul Wellstone) did.

Posted by Edward Yee 2005-01-03 6:17:14 AM|| [http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-01-03 6:17:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Momma T this time, four years older and 4 years crazier.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-03 6:38:43 AM|| 2005-01-03 6:38:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Kerry in 2004 ran as an unknown quantity -- ignoring his antiwar history and his vacuousness as the junior Senator from Massachussetts, not to mention his non-heroic behaviour as a Viet Nam war hero. Kerry in 2008 will have all the baggage accumulated in 2004... and he will still be a wishy-washy, boring, condescending snob. A fight between him and Senator Rodham-Clinton would suffice to bring out all the dirty laundry of the Democrats, for the benefit of the Republican candidate.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-03 6:44:08 AM|| 2005-01-03 6:44:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm still dismayed this knucklehead got as close to the presidency as he did. Its remains alarming that nearly 1/2 of this country just doesn't seem to get it, namely that God IS on our side, and we do have a responsibility to defeat the evil that is Islam. None of this guys dirty laundry got play in the MSM, and their slant towards a candidate will be even worse when Hildebeast runs in 2008, The NYT will be calling for a coronation instead of an inaguration if that witch wins.
Kerry lost because he demonstrated himself to be indecisive and a foreign policy pussy.
In my heart I knew that if the Euroweenies wanted Kerry, then Bush was obviously the man for the job.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-01-03 8:03:20 AM|| 2005-01-03 8:03:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 There's no way Kerry is going to be a contender in '08 - he's damaged goods. HillBilly's plan is working so far.

Posted by Spot 2005-01-03 9:06:45 AM|| 2005-01-03 9:06:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Update from Drudge...
"In an exclusive interview about his presidential campaign and his life now, Sen. John Kerry tells Newsweek, "I'm not going to lick my wounds or hide under a rock or disappear. I'm going to learn. I've had disappointments and I've learned to cope. I've lost friends, a marriage: I've lost things in life."

Kerry has not given any formal interviews since his defeat. But on Nov. 11, he summoned a Newsweek reporter to his house on Boston's fashionable Louisberg Square. He wanted to complain about Newsweek's election issue, which he says was unduly harsh and gossipy about him, his staff and his wife. (The 45,000-word article, the product of a yearlong reporting project, is being published next week as a book, "Election 2004," by PublicAffairs.) Details from that interview appear in the January 10 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, January 3). Kerry talks with Newsweek about the campaign, why he lost and what's ahead for him. He did not wish to be directly quoted touting himself, however; he did not wish to appear defensive or boastful.

When asked why he lost the election, Kerry points to history and, in a somewhat inferential, roundabout way, to his own failure to connect to voters-a failure that kept him from erasing the Bush campaign's portrait of him as a flip-flopper, reports Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas. Kerry said that he was proud of his campaign, that he had nearly defeated a popular incumbent who had enjoyed a three-year head start on organizing and fund-raising. Sitting presidents are never defeated in wartime, he insisted (true, though two, LBJ and Harry Truman, chose not to run for another term during Vietnam and Korea).

While he quarreled with descriptions of his speaking style as "soporific," Kerry tacitly acknowledged that he failed to connect with enough voters on a personal level. Jose Ferreira, Kerry's nephew, told his uncle, "Some people are saying that your candidacy was driven by ABB [Anything But Bush]." Kerry replied: "Do you think so?" Ferreira said that once people got to know Kerry, they were intensely loyal. "Those are the people I let down," Kerry said, falling silent. In conversation with

Newsweek, Kerry seemed particularly interested in trying to find a way to speak to ordinary voters that didn't sound too grandiose or "political." Though Kerry did not directly criticize his friend Bob Shrum, it's clear he did not feel well served by his message makers and speechwriters.

The deeper problem may be Kerry's personality, which may be too distant or reserved to win mass affection. As Thomas left Kerry's" house in November, Kerry called out and followed him down the street. Kerry wanted to show a letter from a schoolgirl that had been left on his stoop. The letter read, in part, "John Kerry, you're the greatest!" Kerry looked into the reporter's eye. "The pundits have never liked me," he said. "Is it the way I look? The way I sound?" He seemed vulnerable for a moment, then caught himself, smiled and walked home to his empty house.

In the heady days before the election, Kerry's top aides sat around picking a cabinet. Nowadays the foreign-policy team still meets on the assumption that it could be reconstituted for '08. But the reality is, "it's mostly sitting around some lawyer's office and asking each other if we've heard about jobs," says a member of the team. As for Kerry, says this adviser, "he thinks he's the frontrunner for '08 without recognizing that he needs to do some soul-searching. If he wants to come back, he'll have to come back as a different candidate, not the stiff who plays it safe and takes four sides of every issue."

Developing...

Posted by tipper 2005-01-03 9:40:40 AM|| 2005-01-03 9:40:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 "You're an ASSHOLE!"
-- Frank Zappa

Posted by mojo 2005-01-03 11:24:10 AM|| 2005-01-03 11:24:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Hillbilly's plan is working. Look for Billiary to run in 2008.

Mojo did Frank Zappa really say that? What song? Or was that in "200 Motels?" 60 million of the rest of us chorused that too and voted for W. We just cannot abide the liberal demi's do nothing plan regarding the islamofacists who want to rule the world and make it their Taliban heaven.

Keep the Second Amendment alive and well.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2005-01-03 11:37:30 AM|| 2005-01-03 11:37:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm still dismayed this knucklehead got as close to the presidency as he did. Its remains alarming that nearly 1/2 of this country just doesn't seem to get it,

Because of changes in the distribution of information - the election of 2008 will be different than 2004. The dems have controlled the tenor of information for half a century - no longer. New sources of information will be a flood that will defy control or direction by anyone. It remains to be seen how the next four years will change the landscape and tenor of the next election. The people, not the boardrooms of the NYT or BBC, will control the discourse of the next election.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-03 11:38:26 AM|| 2005-01-03 11:38:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Let him run in 2008. He won't stand a chance against the Rice/Coulter ticket.

Posted by AJackson 2005-01-03 11:56:56 AM|| 2005-01-03 11:56:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 John Q: Song called "You're an Asshole" on the album "Sheik Yerbouti". Or maybe "Joe's Garage"...

Posted by mojo 2005-01-03 12:15:19 PM|| 2005-01-03 12:15:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Mojo/John Q - thanks guys. Now I can't get "Dynamo Hum" out of my head. ;)

Posted by Doc8404 2005-01-03 12:26:41 PM|| 2005-01-03 12:26:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Oops...

"Broken Hearts Are for Assholes"

Posted by mojo 2005-01-03 12:35:03 PM|| 2005-01-03 12:35:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 # 8 Tipper you are hitting the nail on the head
and your last sentence took the word's right out of my mouth.

Andrea Jackson

Posted by Andrea Jackson 2005-01-03 12:43:35 PM|| 2005-01-03 12:43:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Developing?

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-03 2:10:58 PM|| 2005-01-03 2:10:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 #13 - Sheik Yerbouti is correct. :)

All we were say-ing
Is give war a chance.

Posted by eLarson 2005-01-03 2:29:17 PM|| 2005-01-03 2:29:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Sheik Yerbouti....me, my 2 brothers and respective spouses rang in the New Year with much food, bubbly, and music. Sheik Yerbouti was among the favorites that night. Happy New Year all....oh yeah and Mssr Kerry is an A-Hole.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2005-01-03 4:58:47 PM|| 2005-01-03 4:58:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Hey Kerry, how do you say "John Kerry is a dickhead" in French?

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-03 8:05:09 PM|| 2005-01-03 8:05:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Le Kerry, c'est un grand con

Posted by lex 2005-01-03 11:17:24 PM|| 2005-01-03 11:17:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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