Another Kerry failure

Despite a wealth of foreign policy experience, Senator John Kerry will always be known as the failed presidential candidate John Kerry, who did not respond aggressively enough to the welter of lies pelted at him and lost the popular vote to someone like George W Bush (though if Kerry had won one district more in Ohio, the state would have gone his way and the electoral college would then have favoured the Democrat challenger). Less well known is that Barack Obama picked him as his debating partner in the run-up to his showdown with Mitt Romney.


Kerry may have thrilled to the President delivering somnambulistic, technical-heavy lectures, but, as with the Swift Veterans whose slander did so much to wreck his own bid for the White House, he still is unable to deal with false calumnies, thus failing to prepare Obama for when Romney started issuing flat-out lies. If Obama doesn’t perk up in the next two debates, then the relatively decent economic news could count for nothing and place the election in jeopardy. Politics is about knowing when to be ruthless. Time to ditch Kerry and enlist the services of Hillary Clinton. Or Bill for that matter.