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.
Howard Dean is a physician, too.
The, um, HOLLYWOOD version is, instead:
"F***ed up but all right."
Note the fantasy involved, if not the epitome of what "moral relativism" actually is...to Hollywood.
I think your definition is probably accurate. I always cringed at the moment in "Saving Private Ryan" when they said this, accompanied by, from the actors, that sorta' "hey, smiley faces" sort of shrug. It was incredibly insincere. As is the Hollywood definition of FUBAR.
Some of us guessed Gore was looking to run for Gov. or CA, given his current state of infatuation with San Francisco and his "work" and new million-dollar-plus condominium there.
"Can anyone convince those of us who fear this...that it will not happen?"
I don't know if I can convince you it will not happen, but I think I can re-assure you it won't. That harridan will not be the president of the US. To borrow a line from, who was it? Ross Perot? That dog won't hunt.
Great to see the Boston Herald ragging on both senators from Mass.
One is a murderer, the other is a traitor. Hell I don't see why the good fools of mass. don't figure how to get Jane Fonda to run for high office in the state.
A lot of the problem is probably Boston where the worst of the left-wing nuts congregate (along with Brookline and Cambridge, of course).
My sister has a friend who used to be high up in the Boston elections department. She told me he said he couldn't even trust the people who worked for him, so he tried to do as much as he could himself. There was one primary -- strictly local, the kind that gets about 15% turnout if the weather's good -- that he was satisified was "reasonably clean."
.......his equally crazy younger brother Cam Kerry .....
That tidbit ruined my day.
A fools dynasty voted in by idiots/
Oh, the 'F' stands for 'Forbes'? I just assumed it stood for his favorite expletive. =0)
I always thought 'Saving Private Ryan' did a nice dissertaion on the meaning of FUBAR. ;-)
Who was the guy who bragged (before the election) that MSM support was good for 15%? And remember the "Bash Bush Book of the Week Club"? Those attacks were so bad sometimes that the surprise was that Bush was drawing more than 3%!
I either need a new keyboard, or another cup of coffee!
IIRC, Dean hardly practiced as a physician at all before he turned to politics.
Or some such nonsense.
Great article.
bttt
Howie Carr savored that hilarious GQ article. Eight pages by a Liberal dem, and every line a zinger. Kerry will never recover, at least among NY fops. Pity, like Noneck Dean, he peaked too soon. The line about staffers complaining that nobody told Kerry to go windsurfing, etc. Hoarding $11 million at the end of the campaign when he should have made it available to other candidates.
His recent attempt to muscle in on Hill's parade. (God forbid!) Kerry's fired back with both barrels. On his website, he says that, like the missus, he's passionate about something...I forget exactly what...and to keep those e-mails coming. Every day, in every way, he's getting better and better. You can't make this stuff up.
The Herald has always been sensible, and Howie is a gem.
BWAHAHAAAA!! Ping.
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