Reminder: Kerry on Don Imus tomorrow morning.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry will be the guest at 7:29 am eastern.

[dogtag]

1. Imus comes on at 3:00am

on the west coast and doesn't repeat. Please, anyone who watches or listens, give some details for us. Thanks.

[Doctor_J]

2. i can't believe he's going on the air with that piece of shit

bush lapdog, GOP whore, who called Elizabeth Edwards a "fat bitch".

Kerry's starting to make me feel like staying home 11/2

[olddem43]

3. He's been on there before, about 2 months ago.

[okieinpain]

4. you're kidding right. please tell me you're kidding

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

5. Nope. Imus endorsed him, but I'm thinking he'll put a bait and

switch and vote Shrub in the end.

[TexasSissy]

7. Imus has already pulled his endorsement. Switched to undecided. Here's

the scoop.

Although Imus hasn't specifically stated why, Imus withdrew his endorsement during or immediately after the Repub Convention. So it might be the convention, or it might be an incident that happened that got Imus upset, as I describe below. But since Imus hasn't endorsed Bush, I think maybe it's only partly the convention, partly Kerry's campaign (or lack thereof lately), and partly the incident.

Kerry and Edwards and their entourage were crisscrossing the country on their own train campaigning several weeks ago. I think it's the same train that carried either Kennedy's body or FDR's. Anyway, it's a famous train. During that train tour, the train was scheduled to go through Imus' property (in Arizona, I think it is). Imus and his wife own a large ranch that they run as a nonprofit charitable ranch for kids with cancer. The train tracks run through the edge of their property. So Imus calls the Kerry campaign and speaks with someone sorta high up and asks for Kerry to make a stop and either wave or say hi to the kids. Imus wants to take the kids out to see the train come through and see the presidential candidate. He thinks they'll get a kick out of it. (Mind you, Imus is totally devoted to his charitable ranch and the kids they help. So he is serious about anything he thinks the kids will like.) Anyway, Imus never gets a call back on the matter. I think Imus may have tried to call back again. The day comes and goes, and Kerry's train doesn't stop at the ranch. Imus was very upset and angry about this. Very. He talked about this for days on his program. He was angry not only because the train didn't stop, but also that no one even called him back about it. It wasn't too long after that that Imus withdrew his endorsement, but I never heard him say exactly why.

Imus has been clear, though, that he is not endorsing Bush at this time. So tomorrow should be an interesting interview.

I'm not crazy about Imus. He's strange and somewhat hostile to a lot of people and a lot of ideas, it seems to me. But he is at least interesting, and he has good guests. He is also unpredictable, which I like. (I mean, Rush and Scarborough and Hannity are all pretty predictable.) The thing that bothers me most about him is that he's sexist (IMO).

[faithnotgreed]

9. thank you so much for telling us this. now i can understand why

imus is ticked off.

kerry should do what edwards did to make up for the lawrence kansas snub sometime back - go back to make up for a disheartening occurence.

just isolating that incident i can totally understand now why imus is upset. i dont listen to him so i had no idea this happened
i hate things like that. i hate it for kerry as much as for the kids

[TexasSissy]

10. It sounds to me like whoever in the Kerry staff Imus talked to screwed up

and didn't tell Kerry. I'm sure Kerry would've stopped. Then again, wouldn't Kerry have realized on his own that he was going at least near Imus' ranch? I think Kerry had been there before.

Thinking back, maybe that was the time that Kerry's campaign started to get mismanaged....if their time was so tight he couldn't stop for 15 minutes, well, campaigns should be more flexible than that. Or if someone in his staff was not passing to the top (Kerry) messages from important endorsers, then that's a sign of mismanagement or whatever.

Anyway, I hope Kerry can make it up to Imus, whether Imus decides again to endorse him or not.

[faithnotgreed]

11. yeah, i hope tomorrow goes better than that missed stop!

[johntao]

6. Kerry is a regular

on the Don Imus show. Imus has him on every couple of months.

[ItsMyParty]

8. Wonder if Imus is going to bring up the "documents" and Kitty's

cocaine charges and ask for comment. Kerry has to be real careful. He cannot 'endorse' it all but he cannot condemn (like Daschle did). He just has to do a "search me" and let them stand.

[Zen Democrat]

12. Kerry DID call Imus to apologize the next day after Imus talked about it.

The fact is, Imus is an avowed Republican -- as is the entire cast of characters on his show.

Kerry has been going on his show for years ... which is why Imus endorsed him. Imus said on Monday, that he's officially undecided but probably will vote for Kerry.

But ... Imus is an old dried-up ex-junkie egomaniacal freak. What's with that 40-gallon cowboy hat anyway?

[TexasSissy]

13. Kerry didn't call the next day, 'cause I listened to the show the next day

and Imus was still going on about the incident.

I think Imus got swayed to endorse Kerry around the time that Biden came on the Imus show and spoke about Kerry glowingly. Imus likes Biden a lot and even told him he should be running for President (I agree).

I think Imus is an Independent, actually, although he votes Repub a lot and voted for Bush in 2000, I think. His staffers on the show are Repubs for sure. But it's possible Imus is a Repub. I just thought I recalled him saying he's an Independent or doesn't belong to either party or something like that, but it's obvious he is more Repub than Dem. at heart, however he is registered.

I also think Kerry and his wife contributed in the past to Imus' ranch.