I can only think of one way to put one here … THANK-GOD! Now that this month has seen well over a half-dozen of the Democratic Party's most politically formidable players (read: Biden and Clinton), most gifted retail politicians (read: Edwards and Obama) and best resumed nice guys (read: Vilsack and Richardson) announce their intention to seek its presidential 2008 nomination--creating some concern that the coming debates will be far too crowded for words or to be contained on any conventional television screen—the man the party foolishly ran for the presidency in 2004 tells us: He will not try again!
CAN I GET an AMEN!?! NO REALLY, SAY AMEN?!?
That’s right, we will all be spared the torture if an online video announcement feature the stone-faced Junior Senator from Massachusetts John Kerry, who been tormenting us ever since conceding his last try with the prospect that he might be preparing for another run at costing democrats the White House. One can only thank the pagan media gods who gave is Obama’s best seller’s and Al Gore’s likely Oscar Winning film (which is not to say that he should make another run by the way) for Kerry’s plan to announce he does not plan to challenge 2008’s early frontrunners Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards.
I for one would like to thank Kerry for his wisdom and foresight while pointing out that if he thinks signing the drop out song is going to give a shot at that soon to be open Secretary of State job …he can the hell over it already (That’s Bill Richardson’s tune). For some time now, even among democrats who’d welcome a run similarly charisma impaired Al Gore – despite their laudable capacity to spawn hot daughters – even the mention of a second Kerry run has provoked groans. Democrats like myself rightly believe that Kerry lost in 2004 on his own merits while the feeling that Al Gore was robbed is widespread.
Never a favorite among either MoveOn democrats or what Samantha Power has started calling the Empiricist camp of the party …Kerry got the nomination back in 2004 mainly because the MoveOn camp is basically populated by pussies too timid to nominate either of the guys they really wanted and were too easily impressed by Kerry’s—soldier, state official, senator—resume to notice the fact that he was pretty darn boring and came off as even more of an effete Easter intellect snob than Gore had, to say the least. I won’t even go into his freakin’ wife. Meanwhile, the empiricist crowd tried and failed to with Wesley Clark (Who will either be Clinton’s running mate or Obama’s Sec Def … and remember you read that here first).
But that’s a whole other story. In the end neither group got what they wanted … because they got John Kerry. But, unlike Gore, (who really deserves be vilified for selected Joe Leiberman as his running mate), Kerry may never be forgiven by the base. His …uuhhh rhetorical stumbles in 2006 worked to remind even naïve Democrats of everything that should have warned them away from Kerry and these days polls from early primary and caucus states showed Kerry trailing Edwards, Obama, Clinton and Gore who has not even expressed an interest in 2OO8 today – though Oscar night seems like a good time to do it if he’s gonna – not that he should – no seriously – don’t run AL, don’t run.
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