John Kerry’s star eclipsed

[formerlurker]

John Kerry’s star eclipsed
Upstart seizes limelight from senior senator
By Hillary Chabot  |   Saturday, January 23, 2010  |  http://www.bostonherald.com  |  Local Politics


Photo by AP
Just when he was set to bask in the limelight as the Bay State’s senior senator, Democrat John F. Kerry is being pushed back into the political shadows, forced to play the liberal foil to GOP superstar Scott Brown.

“He’s out of the shadow of Ted Kennedy and he’s finally the senior senator, and he still is being upstaged by this new rising star within the Republican ranks,” said George Serra, a political professor at Bridgewater State College.

Decades spent eclipsed by Kennedy were not easy for Kerry.

“ ‘John Kerry doesn’t get anything done. John Kerry lives in the shadow of Ted Kennedy. John Kerry doesn’t deliver. Blah, blah, blah,’ ” Kerry told the Herald in an October 2008 interview. “I’m sort of tired of that, actually. I’m going to fight back a little harder to make sure people understand that that’s an insult to my staff when people say that.”

On Capitol Hill this week, Kerry’s office was filled with reporters and cameras, but they were following the newly elected Brown.

Kerry’s staff has already reached out to Brown’s in an effort to help the new senator-elect with the abrupt transition following his upset win in the historic special election, and Kerry himself has pledged to work with him.

But Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said, “I’m sure he had hoped he would be the senior Democrat. Not only is Brown more prominent publicly right now, but he’ll be doing a two-step around Kerry on some of these issues. You can’t be a leader when there’s no one following you.”

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Oh Man, of all the things discussed and considered with a Brown win, we completely overlooked the Kerry is irrelevant yet once again factor.

This is so delicious it has to be fattening.

[franksolich]

I'm curious about something.

The Bostonian Billionaire made some rather nasty comments about his new colleague during the campaign.

It's a tradition that when a senator is sworn in (after being elected or re-elected) that he's "introduced" to that body by the other senator from his state.

It's a pretty hard core tradition, even when both senators are from opposing parties.

I'm aware of two exceptions to this rule, in recent history.

The first was in 1971, when the newly re-elected Hiram Fong (R-Hawaii) refused to be introduced by his colleague Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), and was escorted by another senator instead.

This stemmed from the senatorial campaign in Hawaii in 1970, when the Democrat Inouye, speaking on behalf of the Democrat candidate (who lost), said it was time Hawaii had a Caucasian senator.

The second was in the late 1970s, when the newly elected John Glenn (D-Ohio) refused to be introduced by his colleague Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio), and was escorted by another senator instead.

That Glenn and Metzenbaum, even though both were Democrats and rabid left-wing extremists, loathed and detested each other was of course common news.

Given the comments of the Bostonian Billionaire during the recent campaign in Massachusetts, one wonders if there's a third break in this tradition coming up.

Senators when speaking on behalf of candidates, of course campaign for the candidate from their own party, but generally talk about that candidate, instead of bashing the incumbent fellow senator from the other party.

It's a courtesy; and a commonsensical one, because their guy might lose, and the senator's stuck with trying to work with a fellow senator he antagonized.

The Bostonian Billionaire displayed no such courtesy in the recent campaign.

So one wonders how that's going to work out.

[Lord Undies]

Any disappointment and heartache in John Kerry's life is richly deserved.  He is the horse-faced poster boy for the Karma's A Bitch Society and the cartoon character logo for the What Goes Around Comes Around Convention.

I don't think John Kerry has enough years left in his expected lifespan, even if he started today, to make up for the horrible things his sick ambitions have caused to be visited on others.  John Kerry deserves to be miserable and then some.

[RightCoast]

Any disappointment and heartache in John Kerry's life is richly deserved.  He is the horse-faced poster boy for the Karma's A Bitch Society and the cartoon character logo for the What Goes Around Comes Around Convention.

I don't think John Kerry has enough years left in his expected lifespan, even if he started today, to make up for the horrible things his sick ambitions have caused to be visited on others.  John Kerry deserves to be miserable and then some.

Well said. sKerry's a buffoon of the first order.

[formerlurker]

Senators when speaking on behalf of candidates, of course campaign for the candidate from their own party, but generally talk about that candidate, instead of bashing the incumbent fellow senator from the other party.

It's a courtesy; and a commonsensical one, because their guy might lose, and the senator's stuck with trying to work with a fellow senator he antagonized.

They already did a photo-op together -- water under the bridge.   Kerry is not getting any support from Brown on anything Kerry files as he is a progressive socialist. 

Kerry had the opportunity to hog the spotlight here as he is now the "senior" senator from MA (it annoyed Kerry to no end to be dubbed the junior senator).   With Brown's win and all the ramifications that came with it, Kerry is back to being a bridesmaid.   

He is a total POS, so it is most fitting.