John Kerry stays in the saddle by galloping past kiss-and-tell tattle.

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John Kerry stays in the saddle by galloping past kiss-and-tell tattle. ·

Today, on Imus in the Morning, Kerry bet all his chips on there not arising any credible allegation of infidelity by Kerry. Was he galloping into fire (as he rode his Swift Boat into fire) by scheduling an appearance this morning with Imus to counter the Drudge Report yesterday implying unidentified Democratic operatives were feeding the media allegations that Kerry had engaged in marital infidelity with a political "intern" alleged to have now "fled" the country or was he trotting through what he confidently believed to be safe territory. Only time will tell, but by the time he arrived in the fire-zone on Imus in the Morning, his gallop had slowed to a trot implying either that he was confident of being in safe territory or where hostile forces were without ammunition. Feeling virtually assured of capturing the nomination, Kerry is likely to avoid antagonizing supporters of his fading opponents by casting suspicions on Democratic operatives as the likely sources, and surely wouldn't concede it may have been a "friendly" tactic to confirm whether conclusions of internal vetting were correct. Thus, he has a free hand to indignantly allege, or imply, that Republican operatives were the "sources."

Kiss-and-Tell Tattle and Rides in the Saddle.·

By whom was John Kerry assailed
by claims he's a Clintonesque male?
Though Drudge has been mum
on who beat the drum,
it seems that such beating has failed.

A pundit named Crawford¹ explained
the Drudge-source by him can't be named
but said, not implied,
the rumor described
was recently "shopped"² by Lehane.

At PoliSat.Com we are betting
the timing and place of the setting
for rumors to rise
were really devised
as tests of political vetting.³·

Since Clark has decided to park
the horse that he rode in the dark
in John Kerry's stable,
has Wesley disabled
a "deadlock" for Hillary sparked?

Regardless of whether the source
for Drudge favors Hill'ry or Gore
or merely had hurried
the vetting for Kerry,
what's next for both Hill'ry and Gore?

With Kerry surviving the battle
of rumors of kiss-and-tell tattle,
then Hill'ry may be
content to receive
from Kerry a ride on his saddle.

So, what's been inflicted on Gore?
A wound or just merely a sore?
It's likely to mean
a "Scream of the Dean"
duet with the "Roar of the Gore."

A more interesting question now is whether Hillary will accept what will be an obligatory offer by Kerry for her to be his running mate, but the most interesting question is "What will Al Gore do?" Assuming, arguendo, that Hillary were to decide that being Kerry's running mate is the least-bad option for her long-term goal, how will the Dean/Gore/Kucinich/Nader-Leaning wing of the party react? One could half-facetiously suggest that the strategy most likely to enable Bush to defeat Kerry would be for Bush to portray Kerry as nothing more a Massachusetts Liberal converted by personal ambition for the Presidency into a "Bush-Lite" emigrant from the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts in order to alienate Kerry from the Kool-Aid-Drinking wing of the Democratic Party. This theory is so novel, I should copyright it. --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com. (Footnotes-- see below)

·¹·Drudge was not the only source asserting that Craig Crawford had previously disseminated an email implying or stating that Chris Lehane, a Clark aide who was Gore's campaign press secretary in 2000, had "shopped" the rumor-- i.e., had attempted to interest the news media in pursuing it.

·²·If you're not a total political-news junkie, see footnote above for an explanation of "shopped."

·³·Political campaigns often set the news media on rumor-chases to determine whether they may safely assume that such rumors would ultimately not be found "credible" or otherwise have an adverse impact on their candidates. Of course, a common tactic of campaigners is to try to eat their cake and have it to by portraying their campaigns as victims of such rumors by their opponents.

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