So John Kerry may have boinked an intern. More power to him. I’m sure his advisors told him to do it to help with the whole Kennedy image thing.
What I find most interesting is the reactions. You have the “normal” people who will look at the evidence, and use it to decide whether or not his character makes him presidential material.
Then you have the spin doctors of both sides. The Democrat operatives who immediately say its a Republican conspiracy, just like the time the toilet overflowed in Ted Kennedy’s office. Blamed it on Republicans until the plumber rootered out all the shredded documents from his auto insurance file.
Now you have the Republican operatives who in this case are denying everything. The only good answer from them should be that the Democrats who will be nominating a candidate need to take this into account, and thats all she wrote. I do believe this story doesn’t help the GOP at all.
Now, if I were a conspiracy theorist, I would say the following:
The Democratic bigwigs had this whole thing planned. Maybe even the candidates themselves didn’t know. But it would work like this:
You have Dean in the running to maximize the hard core left vote. The party leadership knows he can’t win, so once his job is done, he’s out. The hard left are still energized for the anything but Bush run. Then Kerry steps up to bat and does good for a while. But they don’t think he can pull off a national victory either. But he is there to show they can field a “strong candidate who isn’t Dean.” So now the bigwigs release rumour about his infidelities, just enough to knock him out of the race. That leaves Edwards who has the whole Clinton pretty boy image which worked so well in the 90’s. The DNC can go on the record as having a large field of candidates, who were weeded out over time leaving the best person for the job going into the primaries as Edwards. Looks great, the average voter feels that out of the 9 initial candidates Edwards doesn’t have any major flaws (*cough* trial lawyer *cough*) and maybe just enough people will vote for him to win.
Thats just my “crazy prediction” about all this.

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