Kerry Won't Rule Out Presidential Run

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(AP)

Jan 26 2006

DAVOS, Switzerland

John Kerry, who lost the 2004 election for president to George W. Bush, said Thursday that he does not rule out a repeat run.

Asked whether he would run again, Kerry told The Associated Press: "We'll tell you somewhere down the line." Asked whether he would not rule it out, Kerry said: "No _ I haven't." The Massachusetts senator was speaking on the margins of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos.

http://www.townhall.com/news/ap/online/headlines/D8FCH1VO2.html


Still fighting for us.



U.S. Democratic Senator from Boston, John Kerry, left, and his wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry attend a plenary entitled 'Muslim Societies in the Modern World' at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday Jan. 26

[hippiechick]

1. Please, rule it out, John ...

... I'd be extremely enthused to work for a Gore/Feingold ticket. :applause:

Notsomuch a Kerry/anyone else ticket. :(

[ronnykmarshall]

6. I like that !!

:hi:

[Southsideirish]

9. Gore/Boxer or Gore/?????. Will work, donate, do anything for a Gore

ticket.

[fairandunbalanced]

2. not so high hopes here!

Well unless kerry is buying Diebold machines :)

[jarnocan]

3. he does support the fillibuster.

according to the aide I spoke to this AM:)

[ronnykmarshall]

4. He hasn't stopped running.

I'm torn with him. I'm thrilled with his post-election work. He's a fighter. But I wish he would have fought back harder in 2004 against the attacks.

[blm]

15. He did - check out the research forum - media muted his defense on SBVs -

probably because he launched an attack on them at the Firefighters' Convention. Only Cspan carried it.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

5. He'll FIGHT For Us....

Until he decides to QUIT.

[bigtree]

27. He joined the Ohio lawsuit over Ohio recount

What would have allowed him to contest the results for months like Gore was able to?

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

31. He Should Have Taken A Bullet For The Country

And those who voted for him. Instead he ran away, and held out hope he would return to fight again in '08. Face reality JK, your time has passed. Stay in the Senate.

He should have gone down with the ship fighting. He did far less than even Gore did. Only he knows what happened in '04, but we all suspect it was FRAUD!

[bigtree]

32. that's bullshit

you've got nothing to show that would bear that out. He did fight. What do you think would have allowed him to remain in the campaign as Gore was able to? There was no mechanism for a recount. The vote tally wasn't close enough. There was no immediate mechanism or vehicle to challenge the Ohio results which had the most potential for changing the balance of votes. I just don't see how John could have done anything concrete by holding out. It would have amounted to nothing but an epic pout. If there was something that had occured since that would have overturned the vote I might agree, but there was nothing we could have done to change the outcome after the votes were tallied. There is nothing we can do to change the outcome of that election. Ergo: bullshit on the argument that John 'ran away'.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

7. He's in Davos

That tells me all I need to know.

[Stephanie]

8. That's too bad.

He wouldn't fight for our right to vote, I don't feel like fighting for him.

[FreedomAngel82]

28. He has a court date for August of this year in Ohio

If you kept up with the election reform you'd know that.

[Stephanie]

30. too late

and thanks for the snippiness - I had a feeling

[Blue_In_AK]

10. I would be proud to vote for John Kerry again...

[bigtree]

21. He ran a strong campaign against a sitting, wartime president

and fell short of votes in a state with a corrupted process.

He would be making us extremely proud by now.

[Yollam]

11. I was about to post this, with a different headline...

I was going to put "Kerry Threatens Democrats with Another Presidential Run"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/01/26/politics/p101159S34.DTL


Dude, most of us don't want you to run. You had your shot, against the worst incumbent in US history, you didn't really want it, it's too late now.

[whometense]

12. Good.

Glad to hear it.

Beautiful picture! Thanks.

[TayTay]

14. I'm glad to hear it to.

But, it also says he hasn't ruled it in either. In other words, no one knows anything at this point.

[bigtree]

17. you're welcome

good to see Teresa again too!

[ProSense]

20. Thanks for posting.

This was bound to be a magnet for the naysayers.


Go JK!

[bigtree]

25. I was always proud to fight for John

when he came back from the prostate cancer I knew we had our candidate.

I don't much understand the arguments that Kerry didn't fight back, or try to get the election results investigated. He fought all the way. I witnessed the fights. I followed his campaign every day.

I'd do the same for ANY of our nominees. ANY one of them.

[ronnykmarshall]

24. I loves me some Momma T!

Whaaddda hunka woman!!

I love to hear her speak.

[Burning Water]

13. Kerry had his shot.

He didn't fight for his win. Let someone else have it. Not Hillary, please.

[DinahMoeHum]

16. Sorry, John, you and your staff choked last time.

I don't want chokers running for President or running the campaigns.

:kick:

[ProSense]

18. Excellent news! n/t

[WI_DEM]

19. I wish Gore wouldn't rule it out

but I'd support Kerry before I would Hillary.

[RedEarth]

22. No thanks John

[SaveElmer]

23. Not entirely absurd...

It used to be fairly common for candidates to run more than once. There is an argument to be made that the experience he gained from the first run, will better equip him the second time around. He wasn't humilaited in the election, and with Bush's miserable perfomance since then, a little buyers remorse may have set in.

Probably not gonna happen, but not an outrageous notion either

[Lexingtonian]

26. Well, duh....

At that level the media gives you coverage and opponents give you respect if they think you're still in contention or rising as a leader, and they drop you like a hot potato if/when you declare yourself a has-been. Look at Joe Biden and John McCain, and John Edwards- they'd get utterly ignored, or covered as Jim Jeffords gets covered as mildly interesting aberrations, if they admitted their windows of opportunity to be over.

Btw, great picture. Just thinking of Teresa as First Lady makes me sigh.

[bunkerbuster1]

29. Most astute post yet.

I'd be fine with him actually running again--why not? I'm not ashamed in the least of his '04 run and I'd be proud to cast another vote for him. But yeah, mostly, this is just smart politics; don't rule it out, claim you're keeping your options open. Where's the downside in that?

[karynnj]

33. Great post

Kerry has been fighting for things he believes in - and you're right the coverage will be more intense on what he's doing if there is any liklihood he'll run again. I hope he does, it seems that he is someone who learns from experience. He nearly won in a race where he was hampered by arbitrary campaign finace rules put the Democrats in a distadvantaged position, the media was mostly against him, the President manipulated terror warnings and even parts of his own church (illegally) worked against him. That he did as well as he did was because in the debates where people could actually see him he was everything you'ld want a President to be.

I love the picture. Teresa would have been a wonderful first lady.

[ProSense]

34. Excellent post! n/t