Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) has been a steadfast supporter of John Kerry’s presidential ambitions, but yesterday began to hedge<\/a>, saying that he won’t wait “indefinitely” for Kerry to declare his intentions while the Democratic primary field takes shape. Kerry had initially planned to announce in early 2007, but announced last week that he’d push off the decision until the spring. “I was under more of the impression before that he was going to run and was waiting in time [to declare his candidacy], but now he’s deferred that decision,” Kennedy said. “I have no plans of supporting anyone else at this juncture. I’m also not going to just wait indefinitely until he’s made a judgment or a decision.”<\/p>\n * Rudy Giuliani (R) offered a subtle dig<\/a> at John McCain (R) yesterday, saying, “I’m more firmly committed to tax cutting than he is.” On Iraq, Giuliani said he has “pretty much” the same view on the war as McCain, “as best as I can tell.” No one’s quite sure what that means.<\/p>\n * Gov. Mitt Romney’s (R) 10-year-old comments in support of gay rights is causing some consternation in the far-right GOP base, but not from one of its top leaders. James Dobson<\/a> has made no public comments and his ministry said yesterday the Focus on the Family president will remain silent on the issue. For Romney, that’s no doubt a good thing.<\/p>\n * Speaking of Romney, the Massachusetts governor will reportedly form a presidential exploratory committee<\/a> in early January. There was some talk that Romney would skip the exploratory committee and simply announce that he’s running.<\/p>\n * Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D) will officially kick off another quixotic presidential campaign<\/a> today.<\/p>\n * And Barack Obama appeared<\/a> in the opening segment of Monday Night Football last night, playing off of interest in his presidential plans. It was pretty amusing and the clip is online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) has been a steadfast supporter of John Kerry’s presidential ambitions, but yesterday began to hedge, saying that he won’t wait “indefinitely” for Kerry to declare his intentions while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}