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The notion is circulating that Kerry might run for president again in 2008:
‘Fired Up’ Kerry Returning to Senate
Aides Say He Wants to Act as Counter to Bush, and Possibly Run in 2008
Democrat John F. Kerry plans to use his Senate seat and long lists of supporters to remain a major voice in American politics despite losing the presidential race last Tuesday, and he is assessing the feasibility of trying again in 2008, friends and aides said yesterday.
Remember after the election of 2000, people were saying Gore would run in 2004? Same thing here. The loss of seats in both houses of congress, in addition to the loss of the presidency, will not be overlooked by the Dems in selecting their candidates four years from now.
Per James Carville:
“If this is an election that we couldn’t win . . .” Mr. Carville said, his voice trailing off, as he sat next to Mr. Shrum and Mr. Greenberg. “The purpose of a political party is to win elections, and we’re not doing that.
“I think we have to come to grips with the fact that we are an opposition party right now and not a particularly effective one. I’m out of denial. Reality has hit.”
With regard to how “fired up” he is about returning to the Senate, Kerry, as usual, is all talk. What’s he done in the past 20 years in the Senate? His record was so insubstantial that he refused to mention it in the campaign. It’s highly unlikely that he’ll conduct himself differently in the future than he has over the past 20 years.
Many anti-war activists have held that terrorists are like ghosts—impossible to fight due to an ability to become invisible within a national population.
The current conflict in Fallujah is evidence to the contrary. Specifically, a large number of terrorists have gathered there, initially for the purposes of staging operations intended to drive us out of Iraq. But we didn’t get driven. And now they’re trapped. From Belmont Club:
From UAVs wheeling overhead to Marines going through alleys linked by their intra-squad radios (a kind of headset and boom-mike operated comm device), the US force is generating lethal, real-time information which is almost immediately transformed into strike action. Against this, the jihadis have no chance. This doesn’t mean (as I pointed out above) that there will be no American losses. The battlefield is too lethal to hope for that. But it does mean that terrorism has unleashed a terrible engine upon itself. Capabilities which didn’t exist on September 11 have now been deployed in combat. It isn’t that American forces have become inconceivably lethal that is scary; it is that the process has just started.
Terrorists are not ghosts; they are not invisible. They failed in their effort to intimidate us into submission, and now a whole bunch of them are going to get exterminated.
See the Belmont Club article for additional detail.
