John Kerry Should Shut The Hell Up

Senator John Kerry was on one of the network news shows this morning attacking Bush's speech on the Iraq War. I also saw him on TV yesterday doing the same thing, which made me wonder why the Democrats are putting him out in front on this issue given that he voted for the war.

And then I read this Kos post from yesterday:

There's a little kerfuffle inside the Democratic Senate caucus over John Kerry's insistence in being part of the official party response to Bush's hilarious "plan" in Iraq. Reid originally had designated Sen. Jack Reed to provide the official response. Reed did the "prebuttal" yesterday and had a press conference set up for today.

However, John Kerry stomped over Reed by deciding he was going to hold a press conference this morning as well in a naked bid to steal the limelight. Eventually, Reid was forced to combine the two press conferences to try and maintain a unified Senate Democrat response, but Kerry's antics have generated some ill will.

Much ado about nothing? Perhaps. But several DC Democrats I've spoken to today were not happy with Kerry's antics. And given 1) Kerry's continued inability to clearly articulate a coherent position on the war (as Feldman notes), and 2) the fact that Kerry voted for it (while Reed did not), it's not hard to see why.

Anyone who routinely reads this blog knows that Kerry's vote to support the Iraq invasion pissed me off to no end, so it angers me to see Kerry force himself upon the media like this with regard to an issue on which he has zero credibility.

This type of grandstanding can only mean one thing -- Kerry plans to run for president again in 2008. Wonderful.