Okay... how about this.. Plastered along the home page of the Drudge Report is... "A woman at the center of John Kerry intrigue dated longtime Kerry fundraiser Peter Maroney, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT... " If at first you don't succeed... [Edited on 16-2-2004 by SkepticOverlord]

Ah well, I still think the publicity that was aimed at Kerry will hurt him more than help him.

One wonders though if the facts that DEBUNK an Internet rumor get as many views as the orginal fabrication?

It's going to be an ugly year.

As for Drudge... I'm so over this guy now.

Well one wonders if someone else on the 'team' had to take the hit for the boss?

I could be wrong but this is a common tactic in the political world.

Yeah... just like doctoring pictures and shot-gunning accusations of scandal.

Why couldn't the Dems have made the fake picture? Would it not be in Kerry's advantage to be seen with Jane in those days? I would think so if I was a liberal supporter of course. Did no one think of that?

Geez, sounds like the Bush AWOL story, but the libs won't stop humpin that one.

They're like unfixed dogs.

RED ROCKET RED ROCKET!

Originally posted by KrazyJethro
Geez, sounds like the Bush AWOL story, but the libs won't stop humpin that one.

Not exactly and there are some differences. The "libs" in question are actually asking Kerry's advocates to drop the AWOL attack. Kind of dead horse. Kerry wins the military service debate hands down, so why bother debating whether or not Bush put forth 52% in his scramble to avoid Vientnam or 100%? Either way, he didn't go.

I'm ready to drop it. I wish the media would. They wasted the first 6 minutes of MY last Democratic debate asking questions about Bush. That's not Kerry's fault or any democrats. It's the media, trying to make Kerry look bad now as an attack dog.... just stirring up poop. Again, not Kerry's fault.

And with the intern thing, you can't get more irrefutable proof than the "victim" saying it never happened. Case closed. Not having a press conference a day releasing bits and pieces of "supporting evidence" while holding back more for the next day, or a witness a day coming out of the woodwork. That's the mistake Bush has made. He's the one keeping the AWOL issue in the spotlight now. Not Kerry.

As far as handling tricky issues goes, this was text book on both counts. Bush did it the wrong way (as usual). Whereas Kerry proved himself, to be more Presidential than the President.

Originally posted by RANT

And with the intern thing, you can't get more irrefutable proof than the "victim" saying it never happened. Case closed.

Don't be silly. That's a universe away from "irrefutable proof". She has a motive to lie about it... she has a fiance.

What's more, the obvious counter-example is staring you in the face:

Monica Lewinsky denied, in a sworn deposition in the Paula Jones case, that she had an affair with the president.

So much for "irrefutable proof".


[Edited on 2-17-2004 by BarryKearns]

"Unprovable" is probably the better word for unsubstantiated rumor than "irrefutable"... you are right.

I don't like either this Kerry intern or Bush abortion case. There's a woman's right to privacy at stake in each. At least in the Kerry case, the woman denied it, and asked that it go away... so in my book, that's "Case Closed".

I wouldn't be surprised if the Bush woman doesn't want the same.

Hell, I think anyone who avoided Vietnam did themselves a favor.

I don't even blame Clinton for avoiding it completely.