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JOHN KERRY, TED KENNEDY, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, O’ROURKE
“John Kerry effectively ended his political career on February 28, 2005, during a little-noticed event at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston,” writes P.J. O’Rourke. And then P.J. gets mean. Read whole thing.
His small sparks of malice were blurred by vast, damp clouds of Kerry-fog
That sounds like his entire election campaign. Which begs the question: How could 56 million people vote for that buffoon?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 03 12 at 02:44 PM • permalinkPW,
How could 56 million people vote for that buffoon?
Inertia.
Yep. The Democrats could’ve replaced Lurch with any of the others (even Al Sharpton!) and the outcome would’ve been the same. Anyone But Bush.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 03 12 at 05:32 PM • permalinkJohn Kerry still seems to think that he matters. Even after his loving wife stopped referring to herself as “Teresa Heinz-Kerry”.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 03 13 at 02:11 AM • permalinkTouché. I think Kerry deserves another purple heart for that one.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2005 03 13 at 02:58 AM • permalinkAlso, Kerry evidently thinks he is of very high intelligence. I swear, somewhere out there is a school or something that convinces people that stringing that bafflegab together is a sign of intelligence. It’s not. Kerry just isn’t too ight-bray, but he’s among the convinced. He simply doesn’t understand that there has to be substance beneath all the blather. Jeez.
The pathetic thing about all this is that Kerry sincerely believes that all this crap he spouts has meaning.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2005 03 13 at 03:15 AM • permalink“How [do we] stop the media from creating and perpetuating the divisive red state/blue state situation?”
Well, John-boy, you might try suggesting to the Chairman of your party’s National Committee that stating he hates Republicans and everything they stand for might be a tad ... divisive. Calling them evil doesn’t help, either. Lacks nuance, dontcha know.
I think they’ll run Kerry as a possible back up if Hillary’s candidacy turns out not to have legs.
I disagree. Someone, I forget who, once said “In politics, when you’re dead you’re f**king dead”.
The fact that Ted Kennedy phoned in his accolades is evidence of that. No, Johnny Kerry is soon to go the way of Mondale, Dukakkis, and Algore.
bafflegab
Oh, excellent!! Thank you for a fabulous, perfect word. The whole time while reading it I was going, like, ‘huh??’ and now I totally understand. It’s too frickin’ early in the morning to read anything Kerry said. I should have known better, being an adult and all.
Posted by tree hugging sister on 2005 03 13 at 09:31 AM • permalinkMr. Blue, don’t forget Adlai Stevenson. I don’t recall him running for President again.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 03 13 at 09:36 AM • permalink“After he lost the 1952 election many people who voted against him wrote Stevenson letters expressing admiration for him. Again the Democratic Party’s nominee for President in 1956, he received the largest popular vote of any losing candidate in American history.”
This is from here.
So, he ran twice but was popular in losing, just like Kerry. He was a nice loser. The GOP should be so lucky as to face him again in ‘08.
Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2005 03 13 at 10:43 AM • permalinkUh, that should read, “The GOP should be so lucky as to face Kerry, the Stevenson-like candidate, again in ‘08.”
Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2005 03 13 at 11:21 AM • permalinkThanks for the facts, Tommy! Had that one wrong.
But there’s one thing. Since Dubya won the popular vote as well, so Kerry was not popular in losing. Well, I was glad to see him lose, but that’s not quite the same thing, is it?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 03 13 at 01:05 PM • permalinkAlso, Stevenson was regarded as something of a sacrifice candidate in ‘56. Nobody, including all the Democrats, thought Eisenhower could be beaten. They were undoubtedly right. When, in 1960, Stevenson sought the nomination once again, in a race he believed he could win, he was cast aside by the Democrats in favor of John Kennedy (who was the first to use the primaries to prove his mettle as a candidate, especially by winning West Virginia as a Catholic).
Stevenson played the previous game of attempting to gather enough delegate through personal pledges to win the nomination (there were only a couple of dozen or so primaries at the time). He felt he had served the party well twice in a known loser of a cause (after all, the Dems [including Truman] had tried to get Eisenhower to run as a Democrat) and felt that as the largest losing vote-getter, he had the *right* to a real chance.
He was said to be very bitter about not getting real consideration for the nomination, and that getting the UN ambassadorship instead of being Secretary of State didn’t make him feel better.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2005 03 13 at 03:35 PM • permalinkThanks, Jorg. Just what I needed. A vision of John Kerry sulking because he was appointed UN ambassador…...
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 03 14 at 01:14 AM • permalink
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Why does PJ waste his time writing about this old neverwas? I love PJ, but I’m not wasting my time reading about Kerry. He doesn’t matter now, didn’t matter before and will never matter.
Kerry’s candidacy will be one of those unfathomable mysteries to future historians.