John Kerry is going to announce today that he is not running for President. There, there, the pain will pass. From the Boston Globe, ht to Michelle Malkin:
His decision to stay out of the presidential race reflects a realization that he would have had an uphill climb in capturing the Democratic nomination, given the other party heavyweights who are already in the race, according to the officials, who spoke to the Globe on condition of anonymity.
Well, I had noticed that polls tracking potential Democratic nominees don't usually even include Kerry. But that hasn't stopped him from dancing the dance.
Kerry, the party's 2004 presidential nominee, has been acting like a 2008 candidate virtually since he lost to President Bush -- traveling the country, spreading money to other Democratic candidates, and keeping in place a campaign infrastructure that was ready for another presidential bid.
But according to Kerry associates, the senator's plans changed dramatically in the fallout of his election-eve ``botched joke" about the education levels of US troops. The harsh reaction to that incident -- from many Democrats as well as Republicans -- displayed to Kerry the extreme skepticism within his own party about whether he should mount another run.
That is an interesting, but not particularly plausible story. Kerry must have known long before the "botched joke" that he had a snowball's chance in Florida of winning the Democratic nomination a second time. Kerry is in the same predicament as Al Gore: Democrats will never forgive either of them for losing to Dubya. The reason that both have been pretending to run is simply that one gets more attention that way. At least Kerry has more time for leisure activities.
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