Posted on 01/21/2006 8:57:17 PM PST by raccoonradio
John F. Kerry still dreams of becoming the next John F. Kennedy, but he’ll never even reach Ted Kennedy heights, or is it depths?
Not that anyone would ever dare tell Liveshot this. Seldom is heard a discouraging word when you’re a 62-year-old gigolo married to a 67-year-old gold digger worth close to $1 billion.
Ever more delusional, Kerry still fancies that his next job is commander-in-chief. He refuses to face the reality that he’s already well into his final role on the public stage.
He has become the Mike Dukakis of the 21st century.
John Kerry, reporting for doody - er, make that, duty.
The twilight of John Kerry is nicely sketched in an amusing new story about him in GQ, by a writer named Michael Crowley. Everyone in Massachusetts, including his ostensible supporters, knows what a complete fraud Kerry is and always has been, but it’s nice to see the news again reaching a national audience, even if it’s just in a fashion magazine for fops.
Poor John. Lately he’s been on his foreign tour - don’t ask me where; all I do is read the headlines, roll my eyes and immediately turn the page - and he’s still getting slammed back home.
One of the set pieces in the GQ story concerns a speech Mama T’s boy toy made at Georgetown University. It was pretty good, the writer says, but then the junior senator began taking questions from the students.
“The pain of it all came rushing back,” he writes. “Kerry’s responses were brutally long-winded, as if he were intent on slowly suffocating their earnestness with leaden filibusters. Eyes glazed. Yawns unfolded. Even the kids at the mike shifted their weight impatiently.”
Anyone who has ever suffered through a live appearance by Liveshot knows exactly this feeling. After 22 years in the Senate, the scion of the Forbes fortune is an empty suit’s empty suit, a windbag di tutti windbags.
Here’s another quote from the GQ piece, from an anonymous Senate staffer:
“There is this weird cognitive dissonance. You see Kerry in the Dirksen (Senate Office Building) cafeteria getting a salad, and you think, You were inches from becoming president, and now you’re getting your own salad. And it’s not even a good salad.”
Thank God - and the late Sen. Heinz’s trust fund - the junior senator will soon be back in his Sperry Topsiders biking down Hulbert Avenue on Nantucket, and if this parvenu wage slave had ever been to the Chanticleer Inn, he would know that their lobster salads are . . . to die for!
The GQ story mentions a radio interview in which an NYU professor says Kerry said he thinks the 2004 election was “stolen.” Apparently Kerry’s office denies this, but everyone here knows Kerry’s people have been saying the same thing for almost a year.
Amazing, isn’t it? The guy loses by 3 million votes, and he thinks it was “stolen.” It’s beyond cognitive dissonance. If his second wife hadn’t inherited a billion dollars, guys in white coats would be sneaking up behind him with a net.
But Kerry is running again, it’s his destiny, it’s why his initials are JFK. That’s why his equally crazy younger brother Cam Kerry wanted to run for secretary of state this year, to set himself up to run for what would have been the open “Kerry” Senate seat in 2008.
Anyway, it’s a funny story in GQ, and I can only hope it’s read by one group of people in particular - Kerry’s fellow snot-nosed, trust-funded Birkenstock-wearing layabouts who refuse to peel those absurd Kerry-Edwards bumper stickers off their new Volvos.
For some reason, and I don't have a clue why...but I think the GOP will do better in 2008...than in 2004.
I think 2006...will be close...but, probably stay in the GOP majority. Of course, if the dems do pick up seats...they will call it a victory for them...
I know one thing...we don't need "conservative" commentators like Fred Barnes, basically backing up the dems case of a "culture of corruption" by the GOP...yikes!
Some more nicknames for John FUBAR Kerry:
Kaptain Ketchup
Gigolo Guy
BTW: FUBAR stamds fpr Foul Up Beyond All Reason
I am aware that some people might think it stands for another word beginning with F.
I remember the "elections" we had in school....and I was one of VERY few, that voted for Goldwater...
I didn't have a clue why...I was too young, but my parents were for Goldwater...and that was good enough for me!!
Check out post #32.
Delusions seem to be a common malady in that party. No one can tell me that fat Albert Gore isn't trying to position himself for another run.
Kerry's their junior senator. He's not a Kennedy so I'll conclude the MA majority of voters are left wing AND believe the Kennedy name lends class.
Some people in Massachusett have to have more brain cells than that!
It gets scary. Who can guarantee that Hillary will NOT win the presidency in 2008?
Can anyone convince those of us who fear this...that it will not happen?
Right on the mark, as I also view potential GOP candidates.
We'll just have to wait and see what develops.
ping
You're correct. Kerry came very close electorally. He won 251 electoral votes and 59 million popular votes, the second highest total of any Presidential candidate in history and more than 8 million votes than Gore received in 2000. The biggest surprise to me is how close he came against an incumbent, wartime President during good economic times.
Kerry isn't Irish.
Our guys are usually pretty accomplished people who came to politics from another profession. The democrats are career politicians who would be the janitors.
Our guys include HOF pitcher Jim Bunning, Frist was a practicing surgeon, Colburn was a physician too.
kerry and gore..the rant and rave tour
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