Looking at the Kerry website the other day, he is claiming that no one has done more campaigning for Democrat candidates, no one has raised more money for campaigns, he's been everywhere talking to everyone, etc. etc.

So, he IS a significant factor in this 2006 election, and presumably those for whom he is campaigning are hoping some of his popularity or status (or who knows what?) will serve them well in their own campaigns. In a sense he is running for those who are running — and at the same time trying to build back his support for a potential POTUS run in '08. So, he is a candidate, he is a spokesman for the party, he is the party's most recent national candidate for high office.

I have never understood what he has going for him to show up in such key positions, but SOMEBODY (a lot of somebodies, actually) musf find something to like about him and those folks are pulling for him to make another run. As long as he is in this kind of position and role, what he says is noteworthy, and when what he says is crappy that also rubs off on those he is connected with. Even if only in his own mind he is a (if not THE) headliner in the Party, he's fair game. And he just keeps putting that target on his back for reasons that a team of shrinks might be able to explain. I sure cannot.

Because Karl Rove and his Mind Control Satellites told John Kerry to insult our soldiers. Of course. You figured it out. Congratulations.

what he wanted to say, and he WAS

meaning to say – "finish college,

or you'll end up as a dumb solider."

Kerry just wildly miscalculated the

effect of these statements. He

probably talks this way in his

high powered and high money political

and social circles, so this was just

John Kerry being John Kerry.

It's unfortunate for John Kerry

and the Democratic party, who

sometimes need to get off of

their high horses and moneyed

fairy land lives. Humility and

understanding of ordinary Americans

seems to be much more a part of the

Republican party, despite the

Democrats' apparent but false

compassion show in their

constant pandering speeches to

the poor, to unions, to illegal

immigrants, and others who are easily

influenced by flowery speakers.

Thanks John Kerry for the awesome

October surprise. Maybe you are

secretly a Karl Rove operative.

Brilliant !!

As for his comment, "if anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they’re crazy" … well, that's kind of like the other flawed Senator from MA bloviating on morality and character. Wasn't it John Kerry who turned on fellow combatants in Nam, testifying to their inhumane actions? Yes, a certain veteran WOULD do that apparently. Throwing his medals away, before he decided he hadn't — another distancing of himself from the military and dissing it for all to see.

I think the man has a self-destructive thing going on. Someone ought to take him to a football game and show him how, when you have a lead late in the game, you do not want to throw back across the middle into defenders or punt the ball on a line to the opponents' return man. I guess windsurfers need some coaching on stuff like that.

"Tone deaf" is a term that's been applied to Mr. Kerry. I think he is totally deaf to others' sensitivities, and dumb as well. I mean, dumb as in "Dumb and Dumber". not dumb as is cannot speak. Oh, yeah, he can speak all right. He'll be talking his way to oblivion.