I'm pretty much feeling that it's time for Senator Kerry to embrace the role of elder statesman and leave the Presidential race to those who have a vision and can articulate it. If he couldn't beat the worst President in history on his track record, how can he beat the new blood?

I'm bettin' if Kerry runs again, and IF the ballots are correctly counted, it'd be slam-dunk!
I'd vote for him AGAIN.....
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I was a Kerry supporter and would be again if he became the candidate, but I hope he does not. I have no doubts of his ability to be an effective President but I seriously doubt his ability to be a competent campaigner.

Dear John,
I certainly can't speak for all Democrats when I say this, but as for me--I suggest you don't. Many of us weren't all that into you last time. You didn't have much to say then, and if you've suddenly discovered you have something to say now...well...we don't care. Way too little, much too late, dearie. Your best service to the party so far has been to awaken "the base" to exactly how un-Democratic our "leaders" have become. So--thanks for that, I guess. We're awake now, baby, and we'd like Democrats like you to find something else to do with your time...maybe start a small business, learn to wear a blue collar or something, and hope that someday you can find absolution. But...Don't run. we don't want you. Go away. Have a nice life in your gated community and leave us to fight this battle with real Democrats. Thanks.

NOOOOOOOOOO!
Kerry was a horrible candidate and does not desrve another shot to lose again.

John Kerry is a good man and articulate to boot. Unfortunately, as George PAtton once said, "America will not tolerate a loser". I guess even if the loss was due to underhanded bs.

If someone tells Kerry the comments to this: DON'T RUN!! We Dems must win and you are, and deserve to be, a loser.

Kerry: Do us all a favor and don't run.

All that will happen is the Republicans will steal the election and you won't have the guts to challenge them, leaving us, again, to live with the results.

Kerry should be a Democrat bulldog like Hillary, Feingold, Conyers, Murtha and Dean and make way for Gore/Clark. They can attack the Repubs the way Bush has his henchmen and Rice attacking the Dems.

I will fully support Mr.Kerry if runs again. I have NOT removed "Kerry for President" sticker from my car. He got 1/2 of the votes 2004-- it will improve in 2008.

Kerry voted for the war!The republican machine will destroy him just as they did last time!

The election as was stolen from him as in 2000 from Al Gore so
for me it's a tossup. Kerry should
of had a larger more organized post
Election recount organization in place so he could of sucsefully disputed the outcome. I think most Dems believe he got stiffed and even so had the guts to come out to Bush's inaugural. He's got guts
no questions about it he would have Bush crying for mommy in a fist fight but unless he gets back what he had when he led the Vietnam War protest I would rather see someone like Obama, Edwards or Boxer.

Kerry, I don't just think you could do better, I know you could.

How can things get any worse. We are bankrupt and getting more so everyday. The rest of the world hates up. The Bush Gang are profiteering from this war. They are not going to finance it, we working Americans are. They will leave DC with their millions (maybe billions) and we will be stuck with the tab.

The broke it and they can't and won't fix it. Typical.

Go Kerry! You will make a great president.

hmmmm...I like the guy, he's smart and would have been a good (if boring) president. But he had a chance, and froze like a deer in the headlights. I have never seen such a bad campaigner (well...since Gore *sigh*). I think we need someone who can answer a question with some personal conviction and ignore the handlers! Make him a Secretary of something instead...

i can't say his choice of veep was, in retrospect, a good idea.

he should commit his every effort to defeat the next bozo the republicans float.

wesley clark and barack obama?

Dont bother!!! He folded like a broken lawn chair BEFORE Ohio was counted and refused to insist every vote was counted properly for fear of being Al "Gored" He is my state senator and I lost all respect for him then. He will never get a nickel of my money again or a vote. I would right in my neighbor before I gave that guy a vote again!

In the kind of society we were taught to aspire to, Kerry might have made a fair candidate. In today's political enviironment, though, and in light of the many dark acts perpetrated upon us by this administration, we need a candidate with stones as well as vision. I don't see this in Kerry.

I voted for Kerry, who promised he had dozens of lawyers and leer jets on standby to stamp out election fraud as it occurs. Insisting it would not be tolerated and I knew that was important to win. Turns out, he rolled over and played dead and if he gets the Nomination I will roll over and play dead on election day.

It takes desire to win. Bill Clinton was a democrat with the real fire in the belly to win. Now, the only ones who might be ticked off enough to come at these guys as hard as they need to, are the ones who were screwed the hardest: Gore/Kerry. Both are gentlemen and scholars. Kerry hasn't historically been one to give up. I simply don't see him allowing them to beat him twice. Go Kerry!