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Beatrice1000
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 Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 6:29 pm Post subject: Advisers Urge Kerry to flex power in Senate & Party |
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“Advisers Urge Kerry to flex power in Senate and Party” --11/6/04
EXCERPTS: (emphasis, mine)
| Quote: | ..... Mr. Kerry has a Senate seat to return to and is under no pressure to disappear from view for the sake of national unity and the legitimacy of the presidency, his advisers say. They argue that his continuing presence in the Senate gives him a natural role in determining how Democrats deal with the White House. “If President Bush indeed wants to earn the support of people who supported Kerry, then he'll probably have to deal with Kerry," said Mike McCurry, a senior adviser to the Kerry campaign..... "Kerry would be the person that could help him accomplish that, but if not, there will be a hunger for someone to stand up to Bush."
Mr. Kerry's confidants pointed to his e-mail list of 2.6 million supporters - which helped him raise more than $249 million, a record for a presidential challenger - as a major asset that Mr. Kerry could harness to project his influence well beyond the Senate chamber, and not just in financial terms. They said one option would be to set up a new organization the way Howard Dean did with his political action group, Democracy for America, after his defeat in the Democratic primaries.
"All those people are looking for guidance," said David Thorne, Mr. Kerry's best friend, who also oversaw the campaign's Internet operation. "Will they respond, and what do you say, are questions, but no one has ever had anything like that. You have a constituency. What do you do? Can you keep that together, and keep speaking with them and working with them?"
Cameron Kerry, the senator's brother, said, "Fifty-five million people voted for him; they need a voice, and he can be their voice. The discussion of how best to do that is ongoing. He's certainly not going to just walk away and lick his wounds."
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"I doubt if any of the contenders would accede to Kerry as the head of the party," said Robert L. Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, a liberal group.... Plus, Democrats are pretty famous for eating their wounded. Hillary will have a significant feminist vote, Edwards will make a big play for the conservative side and the populists, I've heard that Bill Richardson is already starting his campaign, and then there's Dean. You'll see a lot of people out there who people will want to give a chance to and not Kerry."
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Several Democratic strategists argued that the best role for Mr. Kerry outside the Senate would be as a forceful Democratic spokesman and critic on foreign affairs and national security, which are his policy areas of greatest comfort and which dominated the presidential campaign.
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..."I never thought in my lifetime I'd see a Democrat run on a platform of strong national defense," said Jenny Backus, a Democratic consultant. "I think of Bush's as an unstable presidency. Democrats want to stabilize their country again, and John Kerry can help do that in offering a powerful countervailing voice to the Bush doctrine, or lack of a plan. He can become a coalition builder, with the McCains, Hagels and Lugars. And he understands Bush more than any other member of the Senate."
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"Partly it was his style, the way he looked, the way he talked, his wife, the windsurfing, the houses," said the former strategist.... “...we tried to humanize him more for people..” ......For Mr. Kerry, and the party, there is an old lesson here worth relearning, the strategist said: "There has been and continues to be a common tendency of Democrats trying to reach people through their brains  and Republicans through their hearts. And in politics, hearts win the day." |
David Thorne: (Editor, The New Soldier)
Cameron Kerry: Brother. (9/18/72: the evening before the primary election during his second attempt for Congress, John Kerry's brother Cameron & Vietnam vet Thomas Vallely are arrested in Lowell, MA in the basement of a bldg that houses both Kerry's campaign headquarters & those of opposing candidate Tony DiFruscia. Cameron Kerry & Vallely are charged with breaking & entering with intent to commit larceny.)
Howard Dean = Howard Dean. (YEAHH-HH-HH --  )
Edwards will “make a play” (for what? hair commercials for everyone, including the two Americas?)
Kerry: (Fraud, neo-communist, traitor, author of The New Soldier): to “continue as democratic spokesman & critic/foreign-domestic”
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They don’t get it. They continue scrambling in their efforts to find out “what went wrong” -- and in this soul-searching article, not one mention of the Swifts! Not one comment on the issues of honor, integrity, truth, love of country -- it goes right over their heads. Is this delusion, denial or deliberate avoidance? Or is it just too damn painful for them to face. It will be interesting to watch them in their attempts to manipulate and re-position themselves as they prepare to “change their image” and capture the “hearts” of America next time around. Oh ye progressives, please go quietly into the dark night and have a nice, long think about America. Meanwhile, we’ll be watching every step you take ---  
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Kimmymac
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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WRT that article: Bravo Sierra, but nice try at snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. You know what is owed to Kerry supporters? Nada.
To the victor go the spoils, and they can kiss our red state @$$.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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Well that just proved what I thought all the time. He wants to be a thorn in the REDs side. His brother Cameron Kerry needs to shut up. I agree we owe those dems nada and the dem voters nada. They are sore loosers.
It also goes to prove that I had discerned that when skerry said in his little bye-bye speech that, "I will reach across and work with both parties", he was saying it for political show.
He is dispicable.  |
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sleeplessinseattle
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| doll wrote: | Well that just proved what I thought all the time. He wants to be a thorn in the REDs side. His brother Cameron Kerry needs to shut up. I agree we owe those dems nada and the dem voters nada. They are sore loosers.
It also goes to prove that I had discerned that when skerry said in his little bye-bye speech that, "I will reach across and work with both parties", he was saying it for political show.
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Exactly and especially with attitudes like that - the Democrats are disrespecting the will of the American people... ...oh, I guess that's not that surprising now, is it?
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sleeplessinseattle
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | "Cameron Kerry, the senator's brother, said, "Fifty-five million people voted for him; they need a voice, and he can be their voice. The discussion of how best to do that is ongoing. He's certainly not going to just walk away and lick his wounds." |
Yeah, he and AlGore can go invent the follow up to the internet or the paper clip or whatever other outrageous claims to fame they've made...keep yourselves busy boys while we help guide the free world...Do you ever hear the other side talking like this (in the 90s under Clinton) - no, we just go out and work and work and make progress as we have toward the majority. If the Dems want power let them actually appeal to the majority of American voters...something they've only done twice in the last 14 presidential elections!
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