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[Mary Ann Parker]

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Mary Ann Parker
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11/06/2004 07:00 AM
Kerry Could Become Strong Senate Voice

http://home.pdq.net/src/clari_news.php?id=532537&new_cat_id=4


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Like many presidential candidates before
him, John Kerry must now decide what to do with the rest of his
political life.
While he relaxed at his Boston home on Friday, elsewhere
friends, colleagues and presidential historians said they didn't see
the Democrat fading into political obscurity like the last
Massachusetts politician who ran and lost, Michael Dukakis in 1988.
Instead, they said he would probably take the road less
traveled by recent senators who tried and failed to take the White
House, and remain a strong voice in Congress on issues he cared
about.
"He has a lot to say," Kerry's former chief of staff David
Leiter said Friday. "Dukakis faded into the sun. I don't see that in
Kerry."
Dukakis agreed. In a Senate that just lost Democratic leader
Tom Daschle in a narrow South Dakota race, Kerry "could become a
very strong voice for a strong opposition," said Dukakis.
"It was a very impressive performance," Dukakis said of
Kerry's campaign. "I think it's important for him to build on what
he's done and at the very least to be a major leader in the party
and in the Senate."
Most agreed, however, that Kerry was not likely to get
another shot at the presidency.
"Nowadays, these election cycles are so excruciating and
they last so long, there's a feeling that there's a need for a fresh
face," said presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
History is filled both with senators who came back and those
who cleared out.
Hubert Humphrey, who was vice president for one term,
beginning in 1965, lost the presidential election to Richard Nixon
in 1968 and then won election to go back to the Senate in 1970. He
served until he died in 1978.
Humphrey's run for president in 1960, when he lost the
nomination to John F. Kennedy, was "the same kind of tough election
campaign that I think Kerry went through," said Steve Sandell,
director of the Humphrey Forum at the University of Minnesota. "It
was very tough for him to get over those (primary) defeats, but he
was a very resilient guy. It's a good example for Kerry."
Kerry's Massachusetts colleague, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, ran
for the Democratic nomination in 1980 and lost, then came back to
the Senate to become one of its premier voices.
Perhaps the most vivid comeback was that of Nixon, who,
after losing the presidential race to John Kennedy in 1960 and the
California gubernatorial race in 1962, delivered the now famous
line: "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
Six years later he became president.
In more recent history, presidential losers have been more
inclined to leave politics.
Democrat Al Gore, who lost the 2000 election by a handful of
votes, retreated almost immediately into self-imposed exile after
his defeat. His vice presidential running mate, Sen. Joseph
Lieberman of Connecticut, kept that post.
Republican Bob Dole, who resigned from his Senate seat to
run for president in 1996, became a television pitchman for Viagra,
and is now a Senate husband. His wife, Elizabeth, is a senator from
North Carolina.
Dukakis, who was the last Massachusetts Democrat to lose a
presidential run, served out his remaining two years as governor,
but left the public spotlight for good in 1990 to become a college
professor.
Almost immediately after Gore lost, Democrats -- including at
least a half-dozen in the Senate and House -- began jockeying for
position, and the 2004 campaign began in earnest a full two years
before Election Day.
"In the old days (senators) felt the Senate was the pinnacle
of political ambition," said Kearns Goodwin. "They felt they could
make a difference there, there was a great deal of respect and honor
to be a senator."
Now, she said, "they look at each other and think, if he can
run for president, why can't I?"
Kerry has said little publicly about his intentions, except
to promise on Wednesday that he would "fight on" in the Senate,
where he has served for 20 years.
He is not up for re-election until 2008.

[JK]

A high priority should be to remove Kerry from his Senate seat BEFORE 2008. This guy has enough "skeletons" to open up many issues. The job needs to be finished. Hopefully SBVT can fulfill this role OR another organization needs to be formed to meet the objective.

JK

[Darkhorse18]

Am I the only one that gets a warm feeling inside when I hear Dukakis commenting on Kerry? I like it when I see those two names in the same article!

[msindependent]

[Digger]

We need to bury Kerry and quickly. His name should be left as nothing but a smear on the pages of American History
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Hey swifty, I'm with you, Just watch you don't get "Kerry'd away in the propwash

Sgt. Maj. Seamus D.D. MacNemi R.M.C. Ret.

[gunbunny69]

Kerry's chances of seeking the "top spot" are virtually nil. Even the far left wouldn't back this wannabe!

I do agree that he is not going to fade off into the sunset, like the mangy coyote he is. That would be too much to ask from this cultural parasite!
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Chance favors the prepared mind...

Khe Sanh (LZ Ross) 1969

[BuffaloJack]

Good God, what if Kerry took over Daschle's position. Now that Daschle is a lame duck senator, they will need to pick a new senate minority leader. I hadn't thought about how much damage that SOB could be in the Senate.
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[Guest]

After some research and watching Fox I have come to the conclusion he will be viewed warily by his democratic peers. Remember he has been AWOL literally for the past two years, not to mention his less than desirable twenty year senate record. If he wants his voice heard and wants to make a difference he has to start by showing up for work...you know......like the rest of us. What a moron.

[helpmycountry]

No WAY as long as we live and breathe will this man get more power. I still say we have to get ot the wife that went with him to Paris when he met with teh Vietcong who is Julia Thorne. We have to get Rupert Muridock to help us who owns Fox News. There are more dirty little secrets in Boston. Lots the people there do not know. He has been sending money to France out of the Taxpayers money to schools and I cannot believe they would like this. Rupurt has the info from this and had tried to uncover it back in 1988. At first I was old that Clinton helped hide his dishonable discharge but a source in New York says it was Teddy who helped him. How??? Are there no honest people who would know about this alive .Zell Miller. Rupert Murdock, and and MCCain . McCain knows alot more and is hiding something. How much you want to bet that McCain knows MORE.Kerry tried to destroy Murdock for knowing more and even had his FCC license taken away at one point to keep him quiet when he owned the Boston Globe.In teh old newspaper articles in the 1970's they had teh picture of him hanging in Vietcong Communist countries on teh front page. One newspaper reporter that worked for Rupurt hounded Kerry. He chewed him like a dog with a bone. Never let up and get claiming in the newsapper that he had more information . He said he got the information from Geroge Patton Jr.He said there was something hiding in the past of this insane man in Vietcong . Does any one know someone that worked the Globe during the 1970's?????????
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[Roon]

[MissouriVeteransDaughter]

One angle that I've wondered about is the Richard Nixon Library/archives. They released those tapes of Nixon talking to Colson about Kerry. Could there be more information regarding Kerry in the way of memos, etc. that the Old Media hasn't bothered to mention??? I assume that the declassified stuff has been looked at by O'Neill or someone else--does anyone know for sure?
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