John Kerry just might seek the '08 Dem nomination after all
(He is both Fred Thompson and Captain Planet.)
By Mark Kilmer Posted in 2008 — Comments (11) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
John Kerry reassures us that he really might run for President. He would do it as a mutant combination of Fred Thompson and Captain Planet.
John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz, are on a book tour to promote their attempt to hijack Al Gore's shtick, This Moment on Earth. The official book description sez:
The environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under attack--concerted and purposeful. Yet the need for solutions to pressing environmental problems grows more urgent each day. Teresa Heinz Kerry [sic] and Senator John Kerry traveled across the country in a national campaign to see at first hand how these issues unite people across party and ideological lines.
The "movement which grew up to protect" the environment has since been co-opted by the movement to eliminate capitalism, and Kerry is now one of the overtakers of that movement who seeks to be an undertaker for the market.
John Kerry was X-ing books in Denver this weekend, and he spoke to their KUSA-TV. As their web site, 9NEWS.com, relates, Kerry has yet to endorse an '08 Dem. He says has to hear how they plan to handle Global Warming.
He wants to be Al Gore? Maybe he wants the movie deal and the Academy Award. He wants to stride onto that stage in Oslo a laureate, whispering sweet "neeners" to the Gores.
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On their TV Show, Your Shower, a view asked him about his candidacy for next year. Kerry said that he had decided that it "wasn't the right time."
Why was it not the right time, and what would have to alter about the structure of the physical universe to make it the right time? Perhaps he believes that most Americans are as stupid as our troops (in his own, personal view), and we'll all soon forget what a decorative display of horse manure the man is.
"Could that change?" Kerry said. "It might. It may change over years. It may change over months. I can't tell you, but I've said very clearly I don't consider myself out of it forever."
Perhaps John looks at the current Republican field our uncertainty an unsatisfaction with the current field. He's an addled and easily confused man, so perhaps he conflates our situation with that of his own Democrats. Perhaps he doesn't realize that in the Hillary-Obama-Edwards-Richardson mix, there is a little bit of something for every left-of-center Democrat. It is easy to surmise that Kerry is the least qualified and prepared of that sorry group.
When asked whether he expected that decision to change in time for the 2008 race, Kerry said, "If suddenly the field changed or the dynamics of the nation shifted, who knows? You might look at it differently, but I don't see that. I don't foresee that. That's not where I am today and that's not what I'm doing."
Kerry could be confused. Seeing the need for a consensus candidate for the Democrats, he's prepared to step in. John Kerry could well imagine himself to be the Democrats' Fred Thompson! Thompson was busy with a real job before he considered the possibility of a run. Kerry's hawking books. He could be waiting for the latent Kerry-ites to emerge and demand his participation.
[I'm going to pause here and allow the laughter to subside.]
Kerry has yet to define himself following his defeat in 2004. He hadn't defined himself before that. He's struggling now to define himself.
When he quit the 2008 Presidential race following his insults to our Armed Forces and his failure to connect with those Democrats surveyed, he said he was going to dedicate himself to ending the Iraq War. That was his self-definition.
The fourth-term lawmaker and decorated Vietnam War veteran said he would devote his time and energy to ending the conflict in Iraq.
That was in January, and perhaps someone told him that Pelosi-Murtha-Reid-Dodd had already staked that territory. So he switched, and now he's about saving the world from "global warming."
Will someone tell him that Al Gore has the Captain Planet bit covered?
And he lacks Thompson's intellect, clarity, and honesty. For starters.
I hope he does run. I think it would do John Kerry a world of spiritual good to learn just how insignificant he is. He's a dopey imitator, not anyone of import or even interest.
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After all, Don Imus is now officially destroyed, disgraced, branded as a racist, and has a seat reserved for his Stygian boat-trip in Democrat circles. That means that Imus will never offend Kerry by telling him to "Stop it!...stop talking and go home" because he's "going to ruin this" ever again.
Watch for Al Franken to make a radio comeback within the next six months...
Developing...and the plot thickens
I have a little internal (non-remunerative) bet and kind of an informal suspicion that Don Imus signed his own death warrant as a Democrat mouthpiece when he made those statements to Kerry on national television. All the rest has been waiting for the right moment.
Kerry believes he should have won. He's very upset that the American people didn't select him. He is suffused with contempt for the people who didn't select him, and I'll bet that when he got off the phone that day with Imus, the first thing that went through his mind was: "How dare that worn-out jerk*** tell ME, John Forbes Kerry, what to do?"
To quote Clear and Present Danger: "I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!"
And I hasten to add, who could imagine a better moment than the same week that all the charges against the Duke Lacrosse players were dropped?
Without Don Imus sticking his foot into his mouth with those three words, the big story last week would have been the dismissal of the charges against the Duke players.
Instead, everything was about Imus' bad joke.
Who benefited? Certainly the 88 professors and instructors at Duke benefited because the media spotlight was deflected from Duke University last week. Certainly Al Sharpton benefited because he tried and succeeded to have a prominent white male disgraced for a racially-insensitive joke. And certainly Jesse Jackson succeeded because his protests in Chicago bore immediate, tangible fruit. Justice swift and justice sure.
And John Forbes Kerry also benefited, because one of the people who insulted him and forgot his place in the Democrat pantheon got hit like a ton of bricks.
As I've said before, out of the millions of jokes that Imus has done over the years, his "last three words" were comparatively tame. But this time around, nobody in the Democratic Party was going to forgive him for those three words, for a lot of reasons that had more to do with the alignment of the political planets than anything he said.
As Kurt Vonnegut might have written: "Boobytraps everywhere!"
Now there's an "emissions control" scheme to get behind... getting Kerry to keep his mouth shut.
"I could explain, but that would be very long, very convoluted, and make you look very stupid. Nobody wants that... except maybe me."
"John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz, are on a book tour to promote their attempt to hijack Al Gore's shtick"
Every time I see him giving an interview about this book that is exactly what I am thinking.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." -Mark Twain
A Kerry vs. Romney election would be one of the most depressing elections ever. Imagine trying to figure out all the flip-flops and who believed what. I guess I'd vote Libertarian.
There is nothing lonelier than being a black Republican in Boston, Massachusetts
Good point. What else could you base your vote on? /snark
There is nothing lonelier than being a black Republican in Boston, Massachusetts
He's not going to run for president, and neither is Algore. Kerry just saw the future a little later than Algore. Who needs to mess around with getting elected to office anymore? That's soooo last millennium. He's angling for some appointment to an NGO or UN commission where he can lord it over the peons and be treated with the deference and respect he deserves.
Kerry just walked in to Maurice Strong's Bait & Tackle shop, asking, "Can I get me an unelected position of authority here?" , but Algore got the last one for the season. Better luck next year, John, but at least you're on the fast track now.
> He wants to be Al Gore?
I could understand Kerry wanting to copy Gore's successful concept of being a candidate waiting-in-the-wings by pushing some popular issue. But why would Kerry try to use exactly the same issue, and do exactly what Gore did? It reminds me of the time Biden copied someone else's speech, word for word.
...or an original thinker. Remember, we're talking about the guy who said he was going to be the second JFK. The only thing is, he's too old to wait for Algore to die, so he's got to be the second Algore now.
Besides, Global Warming, er, Climate Change, is hip and sexy, and it fits his windsurfing lifestyle. Plus, climate change will have a greater effect on all of his wife's houses. No way John Kerry is going to roam the third world hugging icky sick and starving kids or touring minefields.
The gift that keeps on giving..
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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -- James Madison