John Kerry "seriously considering" 2020 POTUS run

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This sounds familiar.

My question is whether the American public has had enough of Trump to go back to the establishment. And John Kerry is super establishment. Old white guy establishment. Or does America want another shot at shaking things up?
 
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Cecile Richards announced she’s stepping down from PP. With her mother being a former Texas governor and growing up with LBJ at her dinner table, I wouldn’t doubt she’s going to put in a bid for president, if not senator.

Pray this doesn’t happen.
 
Inisfallen said:
No. I’d much rather see Warren or Sherrod Brown win the primaries. Or maybe Kamala Harris – I don’t know enough about her yet to really have a strong opinion. But she has a lot of supporters.
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Warren does have a lot of support among the pro-abortion crowd.
 
AlNg said:
Why is Kerry a bad choice?
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You’ve had a couple of responses from Republicans (actually, I don’t know their party affiliation, if any, but conservatives, anyway), so here’s one from a Democrat:

The Democratic Party has to learn from Trump’s victory and stake out a claim to the same populist space that Trump did so well in.

Kerry, as a centrist Democrat, doesn’t have the street cred to do that. Biden has slightly more, but still not enough, and he’s too old anyway.

If the Sanders campaign showed us anything, it’s that the way forward for the Democratic Party lies leftwards.
 
Inisfallen said:
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AlNg:
Warren does have a lot of support among the pro-abortion crowd.
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Hey, there’s always hope, right? Donald Trump was pro-choice for a lot longer than he’s been pro-life.
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No. If you are pro-life, I see Warren as one of the worst possible choices.
 
I always kind of liked John Kerry, for some of the same reasons I always liked Mitt Romney and felt they were both unfairly mocked by their political opponents. It may just be holdover from when I was a Democrat and wanted Kerry to defeat George W. Bush so badly and also felt the way he was ‘swift-boated’ during that election was disgraceful. (Come to think of it, I still feel Trump owes John McCain an apology.)

Are other people like that, do you maintain the same feelings for individual politicians even when your views evolve and change?
 
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Inisfallen said:
The Democratic Party has to learn from Trump’s victory and stake out a claim to the same populist space that Trump did so well in.

If the Sanders campaign showed us anything, it’s that the way forward for the Democratic Party lies leftwards.
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So the ideal candidate for Democrats, in your view, would be a younger version of Bernie Sanders?
 
I don’t know why people keep talking about guys who will be in their upper 70s as the Democrat candidates for 2020. On Inauguration Day 2021, Sanders will be 79, Biden will be 78, and Kerry will be 77.

I mean, McCain was in his early 70s when he ran against Obama and the Democrats kept painting him as being at death’s door with Palin being “a heartbeat away from the presidency.”

Not that it can’t happen, but I don’t see it happening. If they try, I don’t see it working out in their favor.
 
Joe_5859 said:
I don’t know why people keep talking about guys who will be in their upper 70s as the Democrat candidates for 2020. On Inauguration Day 2021, Sanders will be 79, Biden will be 78, and Kerry will be 77.

I mean, McCain was in his early 70s when he ran against Obama and the Democrats kept painting him as being at death’s door with Palin being “a heartbeat away from the presidency.”

Not that it can’t happen, but I don’t see it happening. If they try, I don’t see it working out in their favor.
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Conventional wisdom just last year was that Democratic leaders had an ‘age problem’ and needed some younger national leaders. Now it seems the younger generation has stepped into the limelight, with Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, Kristen Gillibrand, and Elizabeth Warren (whatever you might think of them).

I read in a different context that younger academics are having a hard time establishing careers because the previous generation refuses to give up the reins of power and retire. Perhaps this effect is happening in other parts of society as people live longer and remain fit enough to work and that phenomenon explains why Kerry is considering running again.
 
tomarin said:
I read in a different context that younger academics are having a hard time establishing careers because the previous generation refuses to give up the reins of power and retire. Perhaps this effect is happening in other parts of society as people live longer and remain fit enough to work and that phenomenon explains why Kerry is considering running again.
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I do think that phenomenon is not unique to politics or even academia. I’ve noticed it even in regards to parishes. 😜
 
Imagine what Bernie might have accomplished if Hillary and her cronies at the Democrat party headquarters had not been conspiring against him?
 
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So he’s not your guy if you’re a single issue candidate and that issue is abortion. You realize that doesn’t actually apply to most Americans, and really, even to most Catholic Americans.

But, and not to be ageist, shouldn’t both parties start looking at some point for younger candidates? Not that I have anything against Kerry, but presuming he became President in 2020, he would be celebrating his 77th birthday just a few weeks after winning.
 
I don’t feel too bad for Al Gore or John Kerry.
I feel bad for Mitt Romney and I really feel
bad for Sarah Palin. She deserves an
apology from a lot of people.

Perhaps Trump has privately apologized to John McCain. Not sure. We might have heard about it. I am not a fan of
John McCain the politician. I respect him for his military service and I am surprised that as much as Trump admires our military he would make a comment sooffensive to all POW’s and military members.
 
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