I think Kerry will run again, some quotes in this article ring home...

[Rosco T.]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/09/D8GSJAL81.html

"I think the biggest mistake was probably not going outside the federal financing so we could have controlled our own message," the Massachusetts senator said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

(snip)

"We had a 13-week general election, they had an eight-week general election. We had the same pot of money. We had to harbor our resources in a different way and we didn't have the same freedom," Kerry said.

"I think the most important thing would have been to spend more money, if we could have, on the advertising and responding to some of the attacks," he said.

As for other missteps, Kerry said: "I made some mistakes. I know what they are, and I take responsibility for them."

[CrazyForKucinich]

1. I'd rather see Gore than Kerry.

At least Gore has balls.

Feingold and Conyers are the only people I wanna see run though as they're the only ones challenging the Bush Administration on multiple fronts...or so it seems.

[roguevalley]

2. anyone who wants to should run but I reserve the right to vote for

whom I chose and not be criticised for it. GO WES! GO GORE!

[NNadir]

3. The only former nominee I want to see is the one who was elected.

Mr. Gore!

The country and the world needs Mr. Gore! I hope he runs.

[seabeyond]

4. not only would i vote for kerry, would be easy as pie to campaign

for him. having done it once not long ago.

[stepnw1f]

6. Same Here

And I'll be in Maine as well.

[seabeyond]

12. i will be in the very red panhandle of texas. i saw shame in 2004

and i saw a bit of shock, that bush won. there wasnt any celebration from a single of the people i know when bush won. and weeks before the election i could talk about kerry everywhere i went and i had no one standing up for bush.

will just be easier

[saltpoint]

5. Kerry could run again. He certainly has maintained a very presidential

profile here lately, and I think he could handle any of the GOP candidates in the debates pretty well. He'd tear Bill Frist, THE CAT BUTCHER, to pieces right out of the gate. McCain, also a war veteran, would be a tougher opponent, but hardly unbeatable. Especially on domestic issues, where McCain's record is essentially to the right of Reagan's.

I like the line-up of possible/probable Democratic candidates LOADS better than any of the possible/proble GOP candidates.

Pound for pound, we have an all-star line-up; they've got a pack of cellar dwellers.

[never_get_over_it]

11. Cellar dwellers or not

they appear to have the voting machines so what difference does it make who runs....

[saltpoint]

28. It makes a lot of difference. Don't let Diebold dictate your role as

citizen.

Show up and vote.

We need you.

[never_get_over_it]

53. Oh I will

I know what my foremothers went through to get me the right to vote. I made a vow that as long as I am physically able to get to the polls I'll be there never missed one yet....but I have to tell you I now live in FL and I have actually laid awake at night worrying that my vote might have been counted for that monster in the WH.....

[saltpoint]

56. I like what you said about your foremothers. And I like seeing

Senator Boxer in your post field, too. A terrific senator.

Well this year Katherine Harris may not even make it to next week, let alone to November. At the moment it looks as if Nelson will retain that seat.

I don't know how things are with Crist and Gallagher, but I hope Jim Davis beats the crap out of whichever Republican gets the nomination.

Then in 08, I hope Florida finally goes blue convincingly.

You hang in there, never_get_over_it, and I hope to run into on DU again.

[BlueIris]

22. Aw. This is such a sweet post.

Make out with me!

[saltpoint]

29. Wow, BlueIris, that's quite an offer.

And just over a pro-Kerry post, eh?

You ought to catch me on a good night when I'm railing against that moron in the White House.

Your precinct or mine, darlin'?

[BlueIris]

39. I'm a sucker for pro-Kerry posts these days.

And we better make it your precinct--lots of confused, anti-Kerry voters in mine.

[saltpoint]

43. LOL! On Kerry posts, I appreciate what you are saying.

I listen to him on a few of the newscasts and follow the comments he makes in the NYTimes, and I feel he and John Edwards really were cheated in Ohio.

No evidence in my pocket to prove that, but the suspicious activites of that day remain in my thinking.

I still think he would have mad a splendid chief executive.

You hang in there.

[Proud_Democratt]

49. Call me John..

just kidding.

[BobRossi]

7. Pathetic.

He isn't even close to that which is required to win the presidency.
Have we not learned the lengths that the neocons will go to to "win" an election.
Kerry will succumb to the same swift-boating tactics that sunk him before.

This party needs a candidate the likes of we have yet to envision.

McCain stands a very good chance of garnering a large chunk of the independant vote, the Dems better come up with Super Man if they expect to stand a chance in '08.

Just my $0.02

[dogday]

13. McCain has lost a lot of credibility

His ass kissing of shrub connects him to an Administration which has deceived the people, he will be linked to that.. He is not what the religious right want.... Republicans have screwed so much of the government, that I see a Democrat as the next President....

Just my $0.02

[seabeyond]

14. we know what they will hit kerry with. a new candidate will be hit too

it will just be all the new shit, and all hte time focused on putting out the small fires all over the place that wont be there with kerry.

"He isn't even close to that which is required to win the presidency."

not only is he close he was successful last time and in my view will be beyond successfull in 2008.... jsut gotta get on the election fraud adn again that will happen with ALL candidates

[BlueIris]

21. "Just (your) $0.02," eh?

That's about all it's worth, I think.

You're going to have a rough 2008-09, pal. Enjoy! I'll be thinking of you next inauguration day.

[Proud_Democratt]

33. McCain is a nutcase!!!

That would be great....another nutcase in office.

[Proud_Democratt]

51. And McCain

is Superman???? He's a two faced, nutcase!

[never_get_over_it]

8. It was perfectly clear to me

that John Kerry intended on running again when he conceded so quickly.....you know didn't want to be preceived as a sore losermsn etc etc etc - too bad that was a huge turn off to a large number of people who voted for him....

[sendero]

18. Exactly..

.... Kerry wants it too much to ever get it. He will not take risks, he will lose again.

[cynatnite]

9. Feingold, Kerry, Gore, Clark, Biden, and others...

are more than capable of doing a good job as president.

Even Hillary. There, I said it. :P

There are a lot of good dems who would be good presidents of this country. I'll throw my support behind whoever has a 'D' by their name.

[DanCa]

23. I agree with you. We got some great people on our team.

With the possible exception of a Bean Gephardt ticket that is.

[raysr]

10. Kerry has to DESTROY

O'Neill and the "swift boat" pigs before another run. And I mean DESTROY!

[seabeyond]

15. i really dont think that will be too hard. i think the majority of people

know they were lying pigs and bought into the "game" to support bush. look bush has lost all his power with defense of americans. a lot has happened in a mere year and half that makes the whole thing different as it will be different in 2008, but..... they will want a person like kerry in and i think they will say fuck that shit to the swifters. i hope so. and i hope kerry kicks their ass

[saddemocrat]

16. no thanks

I'd vote for Gore....but I supported Kerry last time around and he disappointed me and those who worked with me to support him. I wouldn't give him another chance.

[KoKo]

17. Kerry did WIN just as Gore DID....

but if I had my choice to do it all again...I'd like GORE to WIN...because I love "Karma Back Bite."

There are so many good spots Kerry could take in a Gore Administration that I think all of his supporters (and those of us who "walked the streets for him" after our "own" candidates when down) that we could find places in a GORE ADMINISTRATION for all of our HERO's.
At some point "we horses of different color" need to have some hope that we could all "FIT IN!" :shrug:

[SheilaT]

19. How about

someone new, someone not tainted by the same-old same-old that haunts too many of the usual suspects whose names are constantly bandied about as our nominee.

It's two and a half years before the election. Rather than everyone being so eager to convince everyone else that one particular guy is the perfect candidate this early, let's first of all concentrate on this fall's election, and then wait and see what happens over the next year and a half or two years and see who emerges as a reasonable candidate.

Oh, and for those who think McCain is someone a Democrat should be considering, think again. He's extremely conservative, does not support a woman's right to choose, favors tax breaks for the rich, and various other things that should make him anathema to any good Democrat. Just because he ran against Bush in 2000 does NOT make him our friend.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. i hope he runs. i love him.

[BlueIris]

24. .

[La Lioness Priyanka]

25. ?

i do.

[BlueIris]

40. Isn't the "." thing how people highlight cool posts?

I thought it was. My bad?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

41. it maybe...i am sometimes clueless

thanks anyway :)

[JI7]

31. me too

[Beelzebud]

26. I respect Kerry, but I hope he does not run again.

If he does, it will only be Swiftboat Liars Part II...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

27. whomever runs will be ridiculed similarly

i mean if they can turn purple hearts into a scandal...i dont what is sacred to republicans...

atleast this time we will know what the ridicule will be and will be better armed to deal with it,.

[hedgehog]

30. I'm afraid I just don't trust Kerry

The way he ran the campaign, it almost seems as if some of the rumors of the old Skull and Bones connections could have been true and that he "threw" the election to George.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

32. ugh!

:eyes:

[hedgehog]

34. Could you be a little more specific?

[Proud_Democratt]

35. Skull and Bones....Bush also.

So nobody did anything wrong in college??????????

[hedgehog]

36. It's not what happened in college

It's the implied ongoing connection.

[Proud_Democratt]

37. Isn't it obvious...

that he's not a violent person or killer.

[hedgehog]

38. I'm not suggesting he's a violent man or a killer

I said at times during the campaign he appeared to be dogging it to let Bush win. How many days did he spend off wind surfing?

[Catrina]

45. He has never condemned this vile war, only how it was fought ~

It was wrong, why can't he say that? I will not support anyone who thinks we needed to attack that country.

Also, he has jumped on board with Bush on Venezuela ~ his 'the Iraqis need to stand up' nonsense, 'before we stand down'?? Once again, it's hard to tell the difference between him and Bush.

I'll be looking for someone esle this time. Hopefully, Feingold, or someone we don't even know, will run.

[Proud_Democratt]

46. Biden has some fire to him..

he would make a good choice.

[mitchtv]

48. I was stunned, I agreed with Joe Biden

No more pink tutu, I hope.He really seemed like a leader, but he has a lot of shit he has said over the last 5 years to make up for. Too DLC in the long run , although I agree he looked good.

[Proud_Democratt]

47. He couldn't condemn the war when he was a candidate...

it wasn't really the popular thing then, in Nov.04, was it???

[Catrina]

54. I guess I don't agree with that. If something is wrong, it's wrong and

people sense when someone is doing something for political purposes. He lost anyway, it would have been better to lose but to have done the right thing. I think most people wanted to hear someone tell the truth. This war was never popular.

I still have not heard him say that Bush was wrong to go to war. That this was a war of choice, not necessity ~ and that it is one of the biggest decisions a president can make because of the loss of life involved. He's just one person. Hundreds of thousands of people are dead each one just as important as any politician.

It's a matter of conscience, not politics when it comes to something like this. I still don't really know what Kerry thinks about this war. But my feeling is he did not oppose it. I never heard him oppose it.

I'd rather be Kucinich, who ran on what he believed in, and has a clear conscience now. Neither he nor Kerry won, but Kucinich did the right thing.

[BlueIris]

42. Learn to read.

No, not just the Internet version of picture-books you will find at freeper-run propaganda sites, actual grown-up materials representing reality. Then go read all about how Kerry really ran his campaign, and handled the post "election" nightmare. If you just pay attention to the characterizations of him designed by right-wing media and Rovian whores, you'll start believing the "it was all a Skull and Bones conspiracy" b.s.

Why am I bothering? I get the sense there's no hope for you. I just get so. goddamned. tired. of explaining to folks like you that the people painting Kerry as an elitist, or closet rightist are the ones you should be afraid of.

[Proud_Democratt]

44. Me too...

I'm tired of people picking at Kerry with trivial bullshit!!!

[ruggerson]

50. He. Is. Not. A. Good. Politician.

Neither is Gore. They do not connect to the voter population that is needed to win.

I love them both, and they're both right on the money on 95% of the issues.

But they truly suck as politicians, we should not run them again, and it's incredible to me that they have these large followings at DU who seem to think they should.

[Proud_Democratt]

52. Good point!

or observation.

[javadu]

55. He's Had His Chance and I Won't Support Him in the Primaries

But if the party gives him another, I will support him.