I don't think they ever looked at Kerry. He was just a placeholder for their adolescent hero-worship, their knight in shining armor, their Great White Hope, and they would have been directed to any Democrat. Remember all their posts about how they just knew he was working behind the scenes, it was all going according to his master plan, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah. That kind of hero worship can be kind of cute in a 12-year-old (with a bit of sadness behind the smile of the onlooker), but it palls rapidly thereafter!
I have seen women over there who actually have said that sKerry is GOOD-LOOKING! *yech* That is some serious self-hypnosis when you not only convince yourself that your candidate is NOT a liar, NOT a gigolo, NOT a do-nothing, NOT an effete snob, but to convince yourself that Mr. Ed is ATTACTIVE?
Serious drugs.