{"id":9719,"date":"2007-01-24T13:28:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T18:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9719.html"},"modified":"2007-01-24T13:28:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T18:28:44","slug":"kerry-to-skip-2008-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/kerry-to-skip-2008-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry to skip 2008 race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/01\/24\/kerry.2008\/index.html\">this<\/a> is a bit of a surprise.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts , the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, won&#8217;t make a second bid for the White House, sources familiar with Kerry&#8217;s thinking told CNN Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Since his 2004 loss, Kerry has struggled to gain support for his re-nomination within the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest CNN\/Opinion Research Corporation poll, less than one percent of Democrats said Kerry was their top choice for the 2008 nomination, and nearly half &#8212; 51 percent &#8212; did not want him to be the 2008 nominee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As recently as last week, Kerry was making personnel decisions and offering public remarks that made it sound as if he&#8217;d already decided to run again in 2008. Apparently, something changed his mind.<\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, I think this is for the best. As much as I respect and admire the senator, and as close as he came to winning in 2004, I found it hard to imagine the scenario whereby he wins the nomination again, and seriously competes in the general election. It&#8217;s not fair, and it&#8217;s not right, but the smears launched against him largely stuck &#8212; and Kerry would have found it nearly impossible to clear the hurdles.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to see Kerry, a bona fide hero, embarrassed. This is the right call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is a bit of a surprise. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts , the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, won&#8217;t make a second bid for the White House, sources familiar with Kerry&#8217;s thinking told CNN Wednesday. Since his 2004 loss, Kerry has struggled to gain support for his re-nomination within the Democratic Party. In [&hellip;]<\/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-9719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719","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=9719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}