Kerry said he'd pick a NSA if election was close

[zapped 1]

I remember him saying right before the election that one big mistake Al Gore made was in not picking a cabinet while the election battle was going on. Bush did this which gave the illusion of the election going to him.
He added that he's pick a National Security Advisor immedeatly following the election if it was close or shady.

Does anyone
a) think that he already secretly did so

b) offer any opinions on picking a National Security Advisor first?
(my guess would be the Constitutional Crises issue)

[Wabbajack]

1. it wouldn't have made any difference if Gore had

the f**king court would have ruled the same way.

The illusion of the election going to Bush was caused by the fact that he had more votes than Gore in Florida out of the ones they actually bothered to count.

[zapped 1]

2. if did give Bush some PR momentum...

...would you agree?

[Wabbajack]

4. Sure I guess

but he's have been selected and sworm in regarless. :(

[RadicalMom]

3. Right now it seems pointless. The steam has gone out of this...

I hope there is some big secret plan to go forth and make a real stand, but I think everyone with any power, including Kerry, has bailed on it. I would so like to be wrong.

[Annus Horribilis]

5. From the Newsweek Article

In the heady days before the election, Kerry's top aides sat around picking a cabinet (one plan was to ask Colin Powell to stay on as secretary of State, thereby avoiding a massive power struggle between Sen. Joe Biden and Democratic foreign-policy wise man Richard Holbrooke). Nowadays the foreign-policy team still meets on the assumption that it could be reconstituted for '08. But the reality is, "it's mostly sitting around some lawyer's office and asking each other if we've heard about jobs," says a member of the team. As for Kerry, says this adviser, "he thinks he's the front runner for '08 without recognizing that he needs to do some soul-searching. If he wants to come back, he'll have to come back as a different candidate, not the stiff who plays it safe and takes four sides of every issue."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6777696/site/newsweek/

That's all I could find about Kerry's would-be cabinet.

[rfranklin]

8. Could this unnamed adviser be Karl Rove?

The same old M.O. Quotes from faceless assholes who always have something very negative to say. You almost never hear quotes like these from the Bush junta.

[zapped 1]

9. screw the newweek article

i appreciate your input but that article is nearly two months old and only relevant in the timing in which it was released.

what i am referring to was a Kerry discussing the 2000 election before the 2004 election. It was when everyone in the MSM was predicting that this election was going to be worse than 2000 in the legal sense.

[Hekate]

6. The difference is Bush made it very public in 2000...

...and Kerry, true to nature, is laying low. In 2000, one of the ways that Bush-Cheney Inc created an air of inevitability was by publicly starting the appointment process. With Kerry, we're listening to the crickets chirp.

sigh

Hekate

[MandateThis]

7. You Bet! I'm sure he's ready! He wanted this job all his life!