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John Kerry fires manager: is that the end?
By: Lyn Nofziger | Submitted on: 11/11/03EDITORIAL - Usually the first public sign that a candidate recognizes that his campaign is failing is when he fires his campaign manager. This, of course, does not mean that a candidate is a sure loser, but it does mean he senses or has been convinced by wiser heads that he?s in serious trouble. Thus it was that four year ago Al Gore fired Tony Coelho and back in early 1980 Ronald Reagan fired John Sears.
Therefore, it comes as no surprise that Sen. John Kerry, once one of the early favorites for the Democratic presidential nomination, has fired a long-time aide, Jim Jordan, and replaced him with Mary Beth Cahill who has worked for a slew of ultra liberal candidates and causes.
Despite the prior successes of Reagan and Gore I don?t think Kerry?s decision is going to do him much good; he ain?t gonna win the Democratic nomination for president regardless of whom he hires to run his campaign.
Kerry, a Massachusetts liberal, is not an attractive candidate--he is a supercilious, self-righteous bore-- and the more he campaigns the more obvious that becomes. An early favorite among northeastern liberals who are not known for picking winners, he has been slipping steadily in polls and now trails former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean in all the early primaries as well as in the Iowa caucuses. And the more he talks the farther he slips and it will take more than a change of managers to rectify that problem.
The firing of Jordan is only the latest indication of Kerry?s desperation. Earlier, out of clear, blue sky, he disclosed that he has Jewish antecedents, apparently thinking this would help his campaign, or at least let him split the Jewish vote with Joe Lieberman. In a bid for the peacenik vote he has claimed he only voted to let President Bush threaten to go to war, not actually go there. At the same time, in a bid for the veterans? vote he?s been emphasizing his service in Vietnam where, however, he discovered that war is bad.
News reports say there has been dissention in Kerry?s campaign for some time and that he was pressured by wealthy backers--his wife, the former Theresa Heinz, widowed herself into the ketchup fortune--to make the change.
Sen. Bob Graham of Florida was the first of the Democratic candidates to quit the race. He did so earlier this month when he discovered what almost anyone could have told him, that only his wife and a few close friends wanted him to be president.
It would not be surprising if Kerry made that same discovery sometime before the first of the year.
Therefore, it comes as no surprise that Sen. John Kerry, once one of the early favorites for the Democratic presidential nomination, has fired a long-time aide, Jim Jordan, and replaced him with Mary Beth Cahill who has worked for a slew of ultra liberal candidates and causes.
Despite the prior successes of Reagan and Gore I don?t think Kerry?s decision is going to do him much good; he ain?t gonna win the Democratic nomination for president regardless of whom he hires to run his campaign.
Kerry, a Massachusetts liberal, is not an attractive candidate--he is a supercilious, self-righteous bore-- and the more he campaigns the more obvious that becomes. An early favorite among northeastern liberals who are not known for picking winners, he has been slipping steadily in polls and now trails former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean in all the early primaries as well as in the Iowa caucuses. And the more he talks the farther he slips and it will take more than a change of managers to rectify that problem.
The firing of Jordan is only the latest indication of Kerry?s desperation. Earlier, out of clear, blue sky, he disclosed that he has Jewish antecedents, apparently thinking this would help his campaign, or at least let him split the Jewish vote with Joe Lieberman. In a bid for the peacenik vote he has claimed he only voted to let President Bush threaten to go to war, not actually go there. At the same time, in a bid for the veterans? vote he?s been emphasizing his service in Vietnam where, however, he discovered that war is bad.
News reports say there has been dissention in Kerry?s campaign for some time and that he was pressured by wealthy backers--his wife, the former Theresa Heinz, widowed herself into the ketchup fortune--to make the change.
Sen. Bob Graham of Florida was the first of the Democratic candidates to quit the race. He did so earlier this month when he discovered what almost anyone could have told him, that only his wife and a few close friends wanted him to be president.
It would not be surprising if Kerry made that same discovery sometime before the first of the year.
