Kerry won’t run again

"We came close – certainly close enough to try again," Mr Kerry told senators, at one point choking back tears. "But I have concluded this isn’t the time to mount a presidential campaign."

Adios Lurch. I know I’m heartbroken. Aren’t you? 

Insight on "The Braggart Soldier," Kerry’s dramatic type, by Roger L. Simon:

"…one of the stock figures of ridicule in commedia dell ‘arte."