Ted "Jabba" Kennedy has come out in support of John Kerry for 2008. Why? I'm not sure.

Sen. Edward Kennedy said Wednesday he would back fellow Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 -- even if Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton also pursues a White House bid.

"If he runs, I would support him," Kennedy told The Associated Press in an interview at his Boston office.

While Kennedy has frequently entertained the New York senator and her husband, former President Clinton, he said his loyalty is to Kerry. Early polling shows Clinton and Kerry among the favorites for their party's nomination in 2008, but neither has said for sure whether they'll run.

Kennedy called Kerry, the 2004 nominee, an "able, gifted and talented political leader."

I certainly would not call Kerry particularly talented politically, as he failed to capitalize on a weak Presidential incumbent (who then got the most votes of any President in recent history), and managed to made himself radically unpopular with Middle America (I suppose that is one of the two Americas).

Posted by Ryan S. on Thursday, October 13, 2005 at 11:58 AM | Permalink |