Because he was an old white dude?
Blind squirrel finds nut. Kerry is right. Franklin could never be confirmed to a cabinet post or ambassadorship now. Why? Because he believed in republican virtue and limited government, and therefore the left would dig up stories about his womanizing and use them to vilify him in the media during his confirmation hearings, while every Democrat senator postured hypocritically about moral issues and bloviated that confirming Franklin would be a concession to the Republican “War on Women”.
Benjamin Franklin achieved and created, and served our country a hundred thousand verifiable times more than John Kerry could ever begin to hope to achieve. The self-serving, lying pansy gigolo traitor is not worthy to whisper the name of Benjamin Franklin.