David Ignatius: the case for John Kerry at State

[karynnj]

6. reports said he had about $200,000 - and the ads failed in 2012

I should hesitate because I am not a MA resident, but it seems that he ran a two prong campaign. One prong perpetuated the Brown myth - looks, beautiful family, truck and he does the laundry too. The other was a nasty, personal and off base attack campaign on Warren. What he really seemed not to do - other than to repeatedly say he was either the most bipartisan or the second most bipartisan member of Congress, was to speak of his votes. Warren's strongest words seemed to be that she would vote with MA all the time - not just some of the time.

Now, he could use the first set of ads, but are they really going to do much for him? He did had one ad on his accomplishments - but he was called on claiming it was HIS insider trading bill that was signed. (I still don't get why he was not hit more for his semi confrontation with Obama after the state of the union demanding Obama tell Reid to move his bill - after Obama already endorsed the effort and Reid had all intentions of moving Lieberman's bill.

I really think that he would be unwise to initiate another campaign of negative ads. He has t have already tarnished his "nice guy" image and he showed the weaker sides of his personality - especially his strange random statements where he loses touch with reality and his thin skin when questioned.

What seems weird if he wanted to become more competitive is that he has not said that he would refuse to vote for the tax cuts only for those under $250,000.

Who do you think would be the likely Democrats who go for the seat?