Now he's against it...
WASHINGTON Thu Jan 25, 1:33 AM ET
John Kerry, who fell 118,601 Ohio votes short of the White House in 2004, said Wednesday he will not run for president in 2008.[..]
Gah! Just 118,601 votes.
BTW--did you know he was in Vietnam?
Did you know Bush wasn't? Nor Cheney? Nor Wolfowitz? Shall I go on?
How disgusted I was when the Swift-boaters went after Kerry .. smearing someone who served this country in combat. Don't bother me with your pissy facts-twisting -- he was there. Bush and Cheney weren't .. every dang last one of the politicians in the current WH found a way out of serving in Vietnam.
Savaging our war veterans is one of the nastier campaign tactics Karl Rove brought to this WH. In all previous campaigns both sides respected a candidate's military service.
Don't get me started on Turd Blossom .. this is about Kerry deciding not to run.
Thank you John, for not running .. let's just try and forget all your gaffs .. your convoluted explanations of how you voted FOR an $87 billion war appropriation "before I voted against it" .. your windsurfing photo ops .. your botched jokes.
And I say that as someone who voted for him in 2004 .. I worked my butt off for him once he won my party's nomination.
But, in my defense, I would have voted for a one-eyed billy-goat if the alternative was another four years of Bush. My vote was definitely a vote against Bush rather than a vote for Kerry.
Turns out Kerry is a lot better than what we got.
Anyway, his announcement isn’t a big surprise .. nobody but the GOP wanted Kerry to run. The polls had him in the single digits .. let's hope he took them seriously. I'd hate to think that he is stubborn and tin-eared enough to run anyway.
But .. let me daydream a little .. consider what might have been had Kerry won in 2004.
We would have begun an earlier withdrawal from Iraq .. more of our kids might still be alive. But, outside of that, his power would have been hobbled by a Republican Congress .. who would have had a good foil to gang up on if they weren't dragged down by Iraq. So .. maybe a Kerry presidency might have left the GOP in charge of Congress after the 2006 elections .. and put them in a good position to win the White House in 2008, since Kerry would probably run again.
So ..be careful what you wish for ...
