John Kerry will not run for president

[durrrty libby]

He is on MSNBC reaming boosh and the crawl says

he will not run

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. probably the right decision.

the polling numbers were poor. Obama, Edwards, Richardson and who is that other candidate ? ? ? , have sucked the air out of the campaign. And he will be one hell of a majority senator.

[jmowreader]

2. There are other important jobs besides president.

And he has one already.

I've never felt real good about running Harold Stassen-type candidates. (Harold Stassen, for all you young'uns, was elected governor of Minnesota in 1938, took office in 1939 and served until 1943, when he resigned to join the Navy. While Lieutenant Stassen was out making the world safe for democracy, Thomas "Chickenhawk" Dewey was stealing Stassen's political base. In the first presidential contest after the war's end, some Republicans thought that if Stassen received the nomination he'd beat Harry Truman, but Dewey's supporters got Thomas Dewey onto the ticket instead of Stassen. Stassen went on to run for president eight more times, governor of Minnesota once, governor of Pennsylvania twice, US Senate twice and mayor of Philadelphia once. He participated in Martin Luther King's March on Washington and was regarded as somewhat of a liberal. Harold Stassen: one of the last good Republicans. Fortunately for him, he died in March 2001 before Shrub managed to totally destroy his party. Go forth to Wikipedia to read all about him.)

I better edit this to add the actual comment.

John Kerry's a good senator. He would have been a good president too. Unfortunately, I think you can really only run for president without being inaugurated once. (This is also why I don't like the idea of running Al Gore again, even though he'd be an excellent president.) Therefore...let's look around and get a good new candidate--one who hasn't run for president before.