November 15, 2005
LETTING W PICK YOUR LEADER:
Direct jab from Bush pleases Kerry camp (Rick Klein, November 15, 2005, Boston Globe)
President Bush's Veterans Day broadside against Senator John F. Kerry, delivered in a major speech on the war in Iraq, was greeted with quiet cheer by those in the senator's camp who are laying the groundwork for his possible run for the presidency in 2008.By singling out Kerry as the Democrats' leading Iraq war critic, aides to the Massachusetts Democrat said, the president confirmed Kerry's continuing prominence in national politics, something the senator and his aides have fought hard to maintain.
''Kerry is clearly one of the national leaders of the Democratic Party," said Jenny Backus, a Kerry political strategist. ''John Kerry has articulated a clear strategy for Democrats, and there's nothing more dangerous for Republicans than a united Democratic Party."
This thought hadn't occurred previously, but why not start addressing all criticisms of the Democrats to John Kerry by name and make him the de facto leader of the Democratic Party? Posted by Orrin Judd at November 15, 2005 1:42 PM
This article is clearly a coded message from more sensible Democrats to the Kerry camp, telling them to shut up.
I hope and pray it doesn't work.
Posted by: Timothy at November 15, 2005 2:00 PMTo be fair, perhaps they forgot to send Kerry the cereal box with the decoder ring at the bottom?
If he can maneuver the Democrats into re-nominating John Kerry, even I will bow down before Karl Rove.
But, it's only a fantasy. It's not possible that the Democrats are that stupid. It's not, right?
Posted by: pj at November 15, 2005 2:48 PMpj:
When it comes to stupidity, always bet the over.
Posted by: Mike Earl at November 15, 2005 3:20 PMKerry won the nom for 3 reasons:
a) He isn't George Bush.
b) Howard Dean is a loon, and the rest of the field were nobodies.
c) He served in Vietnam.
a & b won't be relevant in '08, and c isn't in play because the Dem primary voters now know that his Vietnam-era record doesn't exactly go over well with a lot of voters. Plus, his tour won't exactly wow anyone with McCain on the other side, will it?
His career is over. Teresa will dump him before too long anyway, and then he won't be able to afford to run for dogcatcher...
Posted by: b at November 15, 2005 3:20 PMb. I lost a bet about that. I was sure Terry would dump the dork right after the election before Bush was even sworn in. Why she didn't is a mystery.
Posted by: erp at November 15, 2005 4:36 PMerp,
These things take time. She's got to pry his fingers off her (er, John Heinz's) money before she can proceed.
Posted by: H.D. Miller at November 15, 2005 5:29 PMAre Democrats so dumb, or do they just play that on TV?
Posted by: John J. Coupal at November 15, 2005 5:38 PMEither that or he's hung like a rhinocerous.
Posted by: joe shropshire at November 15, 2005 5:39 PMJohn "Enumclaw" Kerry?
The only reason the Dems in Congress are acting stupid is because they've spent the better part of a decade around the majority GOP and figure that what worked so well for the Stupid Party has to work for them, too.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at November 15, 2005 6:03 PMIt's going to be so fun watching Hillary take Kerry, Shrummie, Teddy K, et al. apart.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at November 15, 2005 7:04 PMWith the bonus fun of watching the Kos Kiddies savage her in turn.
Posted by: Gideon at November 15, 2005 7:33 PMKerry doesn't know what he's getting into if he thinks he's going to get the same sort of coverage for a 2008 campaign that he received in 2004 if the missus is one of his opponents.
On the other hand, if I were Kerry I'd start asking Mrs. Clinton since she's from Arkansas and served on the Wal-Mart board, what she thinks of the company, since it seems to be the domestic corporate bugaboo of the day among the far left of the Democratic party right now, and it can't hurt to get the folks in Kosistan riled up about Hillary's southern ties, even as tenuious as they may be.
Posted by: John at November 15, 2005 8:32 PMI am the legitimate President of the United States and I will be heard in 2008! Say, do I look like I've put on a little weight? I thought it might make me look more like a heavy hitter.
Posted by: AlGore at November 15, 2005 10:56 PMThe Breck Girl will try to savage both Kerry and Hillary, starting the the day after the mid-terms next year. He can probably laugh Kerry off the stage, and he just might draw enough money to scare Hillary.
It's been funny to watch the media pump up Mark Warner - his only chance is to destroy Hillary very quickly, but will the media help him?
Posted by: jim hamlen at November 17, 2005 7:32 PM