I Don't Care What Anyone Says
And By The Way, He Still Has The Hat . . .
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I am surprised by John Kerry's decision not to run for President. Given the way things are going right now, 2008 is shaping up to be a Democratic year and I thought that Kerry would have wanted to try his luck again, especially given how close he came to winning in 2004. Kerry definitely walked, talked and acted like a candidate and he certainly is bitter enough about 2004's outcome that he would have been motivated to try again.
All I know is that Kerry's decision to stay out of the 2008 race has nothing whatsoever to do with "devoting time to ending the war in Iraq" or any other such nonsense. Behold the consequences of a "botched joke"; no one in the Democratic Party wanted to bear the consequences of Kerry's political clumsiness during another Presidential election cycle.
Pity. It would have been fun to watch another Kerry campaign make its unique mark in American political history.
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And it had nothing to do with the "botched joke", though that certainly didn't help...
He. Could. Not. Win.
And I'm not talking about the general - I'm talking about the nomination.
In a field with St. Hillary, OBAMA!™ and the Breck Girl - his former running mate - the guy who "came so close" in 2004 (and in actuallity, he did come quite close) simply had no path to the nomination.
So because he cannot win the nomination, and doesn't want to come in behind his former running mate in the primaries, he's not running. That is all.
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So libs, how's that Congressional Resolution to end The War™ coming along?
Kerry ... Kerry ... no, I'm not coming up with anything.
Do try to stick with relevant topics from now on. People in the news, that sort of thing.
The Academy: researching the Illiberal Arts
John Kerry recently visited one of his heroes, the President of Syria. Could he have been told that since he has failed to defeat America in Iraq, the terrorist are withdrawing their support. Could it be that terrorists think; helping us defeat America in Vietnam was great, but what has John Kerry done for us lately?
and what else did he have? Give the overrated and now forgotten Bob Shrum some credit for realizing he didn't have much to work with.
Plus how often could you defend his foot in the mouth tendencies, some of the more fevered claiming he didn't really say what he said. A variation on he voted for before he voted against funding, which was even more interesting when you consider he voted against funding a war whose authorization he had voted for, and after the funding vote complained about the equipment and arms the soldiers were receiving.
You couldn't follow this guy with a compass. But at least he still has Theresa.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville