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Question: Can John Kerry running in 2016?
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« Reply #25 on: September 10, 2013, 08:40:52 AM »

John Kerry won't run. He will have to resign as Secretary of State to do so and I don't see him resign from the job he wanted so bad for the last years.
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« Reply #26 on: September 10, 2013, 02:42:58 PM »

John Kerry won't run. He will have to resign as Secretary of State to do so and I don't see him resign from the job he wanted so bad for the last years.

Huh?  Why would he have to resign?
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« Reply #27 on: September 10, 2013, 04:31:19 PM »

Because I don't think Obama would allow Kerry to run for the Presidency while being SoS.
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« Reply #28 on: September 10, 2013, 04:42:31 PM »

John Kerry won't run. He will have to resign as Secretary of State to do so and I don't see him resign from the job he wanted so bad for the last years.

Huh?  Why would he have to resign?

It's illegal for a cabinet member to run, as well as engage is a political campaigns, while in office.
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« Reply #29 on: September 10, 2013, 04:54:17 PM »

Because I don't think Obama would allow Kerry to run for the Presidency while being SoS.

He wouldn't have to but Obama could ask him to resign. He'll do just that if he really wants to be president, but he'll be 73 and would do awful in the primary as he would have in 2004 against any real opposition.
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« Reply #30 on: September 10, 2013, 08:53:04 PM »

He's going to have to fix whatever's going on with his face if he wants to have even a longshot chance.
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« Reply #31 on: September 10, 2013, 09:00:25 PM »

He is obviously eligible, but he won't running for president. He won't run, either.
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« Reply #32 on: September 11, 2013, 09:45:51 AM »

Because I don't think Obama would allow Kerry to run for the Presidency while being SoS.

He wouldn't have to but Obama could ask him to resign. He'll do just that if he really wants to be president, but he'll be 73 and would do awful in the primary as he would have in 2004 against any real opposition.

That is what I am saying. Obama will ask him to resign so he can have a full-time Secretary of State and not one who has something else on his mind as well.
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« Reply #33 on: September 11, 2013, 12:41:19 PM »

He looks like a battery operated corpse these days. Do Americans really want an actual zombie as their President?
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« Reply #34 on: September 11, 2013, 06:52:27 PM »

Nope not happening.

Kerry vs. Romney 2016 could be interesting to watch.


Kerry vs. Romney would be the polar opposite of interesting to watch.
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« Reply #35 on: September 11, 2013, 07:11:21 PM »

He looks like a battery operated corpse these days. Do Americans really want an actual zombie as their President?

There is something of a zombie craze going on in the states these days.
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« Reply #36 on: September 12, 2013, 03:31:31 AM »

He looks like a battery operated corpse these days. Do Americans really want an actual zombie as their President?

There is something of a zombie craze going on in the states these days.

I understand that this is so. And you have elected a half-zombie - Mr Ronald Reagan - to the Presidency before. So I could be wrong.
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« Reply #37 on: November 27, 2014, 03:23:25 PM »

My cousin wants him to run. He says Kerry's more electable than Hillary for some reason. I don't think he'll run.
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« Reply #38 on: November 30, 2014, 02:07:40 AM »

I like Kerry a lot personally, but he's not going to run.
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« Reply #39 on: November 30, 2014, 04:23:27 AM »

Agreed. He's actually the dem candidate that I have been most excited about in my lifetime. But he is probably close to unelectable. Too aloof and intellectual. In 2004 I thought he absolutely wiped the floor with Bush in all three debates. To this day I cannot believe that any impartial observer can even regard any of those thee debates as even semiclose. Yet, the polls said otherwise and Kerry lost to the worst president in US history.

We have a politician in Denmark who was once the leader of the Social Democrats (2002-05) and extremely respected by everyone, yet he also proved to be utterly unelectable.
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« Reply #40 on: November 30, 2014, 07:14:38 AM »

Howard Dean/Wesley Clark ticket would have done better than the Kerry/Edwards ticket due to whatever Equality Marriage did to the ticket in 2004, not 2014, and Teresa Hinz-Kerry damaged Kerry as well.

Kerry ruined any chance he had to run for prez by promoting a preemptive war with Syria, with the Democratic base, based on the same weapons of mass destructive argument he used against
Bush. He should ride into sunset.
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« Reply #41 on: December 02, 2014, 05:36:37 PM »

Nope not happening.

Kerry vs. Romney 2016 could be interesting to watch.

Best chance for a 3rd party candidate ever. And a beautiful way to de-legitimize the system in the eyes of the voters. Even Hillary v. Jeb wouldn't be as laughable as Kerry v. Romney.

"You turned them both down before, but now we're shoving one down your throat whether you like it or not!"

"America - where democracy means choosing between two stupidly rich elitist @$$hles!"
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« Reply #42 on: December 02, 2014, 05:46:06 PM »

Nope not happening.

Kerry vs. Romney 2016 could be interesting to watch.

Best chance for a 3rd party candidate ever. And a beautiful way to de-legitimize the system in the eyes of the voters. Even Hillary v. Jeb wouldn't be as laughable as Kerry v. Romney.

"You turned them both down before, but now we're shoving one down your throat whether you like it or not!"

"America - where democracy means choosing between two stupidly rich elitist @$$hles!"



Most hilarious possible map. Kerry gets all the Kerry states plus Iowa, New Mexico, and Nevada. Still loses 275-263. Kerry gets to be the man who came tantalizingly close only to lose by a few ten thousand votes in Ohio again.
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« Reply #43 on: December 02, 2014, 06:29:05 PM »

Nah man. More like this



Jesse Ventura/Howard Stern 514
John Kerry/Mark Warner 18
Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan 6
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« Reply #44 on: December 02, 2014, 07:23:15 PM »

He would be an extremely much greater candidate than Joe Biden for sure, yet I would still not feel anywhere near enthusiastic about his candidacy.
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« Reply #45 on: December 02, 2014, 08:37:17 PM »

He is a fossil with onset symptoms of Alzheimer’s.

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« Reply #46 on: December 02, 2014, 09:22:32 PM »

I didn't vote for John Kerry in 2004, and I wouldn't in 2016. He'd make a horrible president.
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« Reply #47 on: December 03, 2014, 04:50:42 PM »

He can run if he wants but he'll probably retire.
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« Reply #48 on: December 03, 2014, 05:27:16 PM »

Like Arnold Vinick, Kerry made a wise decision in ending his career in the State department.
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« Reply #49 on: December 07, 2014, 11:48:25 AM »

Howard Dean/Wesley Clark ticket would have done better than the Kerry/Edwards ticket due to whatever Equality Marriage did to the ticket in 2004, not 2014, and Teresa Hinz-Kerry damaged Kerry as well.

Kerry ruined any chance he had to run for prez by promoting a preemptive war with Syria, with the Democratic base, based on the same weapons of mass destructive argument he used against
Bush. He should ride into sunset.
Gay marriage wasn't really a winning issue yet in 2004, as a majority of people did not favor it until 2011. I don't see how campaigning in favor of a position that most people opposed at the time would have helped Howard Dean if he was the Democratic nominee in 2004.
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