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Kerry intern's parents respond to allegations
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Posted on 02/13/2004 5:44:45 AM PST by rocklobster11

FACING the first crisis of his campaign, Democratic presidential nomination front-runner John Kerry will today respond to allegations he had a two-year affair with a young woman who has since fled the country.

Branded a political dirty trick by the Democrats, the pro-Republican Drudge Report website yesterday accused Senator Kerry, 60, of having an affair that threatened "to turn the race for the presidency on its head".

At the centre of the allegations is Alex Polier, 24, who had worked as a New York-based reporter for Associated Press. She now is now in Kenya.

Her parents, Donna and Terry, speaking from Malvern, Pennsylvania yesterday, said there was no evidence of an affair, only that Senator Kerry may have been attracted to their daughter.

Mr Polier said Senator Kerry had called his daughter "two or three years ago" to ask her to work on his re-election team. She declined.

"I think he's a sleaze-ball," Mr Polier told London's Sun newspaper.

Mrs Polier claimed Senator Kerry was "after" her daughter.

Drudge, which broke the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal, alleged yesterday that a young woman, "recently fled the country, reportedly at the prodding of Kerry" after a two-year affair beginning in early 2001.

Drudge further claimed General Wesley Clark, in an off-the-record conversation this week with reporters just before he dropped out of the race for the White House, said that "Kerry will implode over an intern issue".

General Clark made no mention of this during an interview with CNN yesterday. Today, he will throw his support behind Senator Kerry as the Democrat candidate to challenge George W. Bush at the November 2 federal election.

Senator Kerry is married to Teresa Heinz, heiress of the food empire.

He has two daughters from his first marriage, which ended in 1990.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; alexgate; alexpolier; bimboeruption; kerry
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To: sweetliberty
What do you want to bet the the Nat. Enq. will bust this story. They probably already have 3 reporters and 10 papparazzi on a plane to Kenya right now. As sad as it sounds we are going to have to rely on a tabloid to dig up the truth. The alphabet networks won't.
121 posted on 02/13/2004 7:43:13 AM PST by mlbford2
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To: rocklobster11
"He's a sleazeball."

Expect the mainstream media to make this a headline.... NOT...LOL
122 posted on 02/13/2004 7:45:17 AM PST by Libertina
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To: Libertina
That's the headline on the link that drudge has to the article. He added it to his site about an hour ago
123 posted on 02/13/2004 7:47:49 AM PST by rocklobster11
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To: kegler4
"You don't usually hear, "OK you caught me. I was fooling around with that young thing and boy was she hot."

So does that mean that if there are no damning photos, such as with Hart and Rice, and there is no DNA stained dress, that the Marxist media lapdogs successfully bury the truth, except for placing blame for the story's existence on the evil Republicans, for the purpose of a cumulative negative impact on the president, along with the "Bush was AWOL" lie that they continue to spread, despite there being NO evidence to support their claims? In other words, the real story goes away and the "official" story portrays Kerry as the unfortunate victim of a right-wing plot?

124 posted on 02/13/2004 7:48:17 AM PST by sweetliberty (To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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To: sweetliberty
I've been thinking this whole story may be a ploy to get Teresa to spend her money. She previously stated that she would not spend any of her fortune on the campaign unless her husband was attacked with lies.

Perhaps Kerry told Lehane to release the info thru the Clark campaign, knowing that there is nothing to it, so that he could get his wife to open her wallet.

125 posted on 02/13/2004 7:49:30 AM PST by rocklobster11
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To: sweetliberty
Kerry has basically denied having an affair now.

So if he did, he's a liar, prior to being elected (whereas Clinton was already President).

Hopefully, people don't want Clinton 2.
126 posted on 02/13/2004 7:50:14 AM PST by tomahawk
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To: rocklobster11
I still think it has the fingerprints of Clinton puppetry all over it. But with these smarmy RATs, anything is possible. It isn't like there are lows they won't stoop to in their relentless pursuit of power. Still, might not be a bad idea to keep this around.

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127 posted on 02/13/2004 7:55:26 AM PST by sweetliberty (To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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To: rocklobster11
"I've been thinking this whole story may be a ploy to get Teresa to spend her money. She previously stated that she would not spend any of her fortune on the campaign unless her husband was attacked with lies."

I hope she can find an orange Pashmina scarf to match her jumpsuit.

She CANNOT give Kerry any money for his campaign. It is against the law.
128 posted on 02/13/2004 7:58:08 AM PST by Hon
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To: mlbford2
What do you want to bet the the Nat. Enq. will bust this story. They probably already have 3 reporters and 10 papparazzi on a plane to Kenya right now. As sad as it sounds we are going to have to rely on a tabloid to dig up the truth. The alphabet networks won't.

Unfortunately, you are correct. I hate to admit it but the NE has been on top of a lot of news stories for the last few years. I’m sure their “people” (can’t bring myself to refer to them as reporters) are all over this. This is just day 2 of Kerry’s bimbo eruption. Just give them time.

I find it humorous though that CBSNBCABCCNNMSBCNewYorkTimesWashingtonPost won’t touch this, but after NE breaks it and has the solid facts out, then they’ll be all over it.

129 posted on 02/13/2004 7:59:57 AM PST by Lurking in Kansas (No tagline here... move along)
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To: AppyPappy
There's a prep school.
130 posted on 02/13/2004 8:03:45 AM PST by Tribune7 (Vote Toomey April 27)
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To: Temple Owl
ping
131 posted on 02/13/2004 8:04:03 AM PST by Tribune7 (Vote Toomey April 27)
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To: kcvl
no American press called the parents since they probably already know all the details

Of course they do. Drudge reported that ABC, WashPost, et al. were investigating the possibility of a Kerry-intern scandal. They already know a lot more than we do. They've been investigating for who knows how long, and I'm guessing they're not reporting the results of their investigations because they don't like what they found - either that he's been having an affair with this woman or, possibly worse, that he was an obsessed stalker who didn't like getting "no" for an answer.

Only the foreign press is bothering to report what they've found out so far (I did a google news search of "John Kerry Alex Polier," and only one or two American sources turned up - almost exclusively Australian and British). A Phildelphia paper did say this, however:

But there's one huge problem with the story, which raced through newsrooms across the country like a computer virus: Nobody has been able to confirm that it was true. "This rumor has been out there for months and months," Neil Oxman, the prominent Democratic consultant based in Philadelphia, said last night. source

132 posted on 02/13/2004 8:06:38 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: kegler4
"I think I need to go buy some more tinfoil."

Between FR, the DU and Art Bell, we're keeping the tinfoil industry in the black, therefore we are supporting the economy and so are all patriots, in a convoluted sort of way.

133 posted on 02/13/2004 8:09:43 AM PST by sweetliberty (To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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To: kcvl
"Like Rush said yesterday, they are all trying to be second because they don't want to be linked to Drudge."

I'm kinda anxious to hear Rush's follow-up today.

134 posted on 02/13/2004 8:10:50 AM PST by sweetliberty (To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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To: tomahawk
"So if he did, he's a liar, prior to being elected (whereas Clinton was already President)."

Well, actually Clinton was lying and denying before the election (Gennifer Flowers) and we already know that being a pathological liar is another plus point "special qualification" on the resume of a democRAT.

135 posted on 02/13/2004 8:23:50 AM PST by sweetliberty (To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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To: Hon
"She CANNOT give Kerry any money for his campaign. It is against the law."

Okay; two points here. Since they are married, her money is his money...or THEIR money, anyway. How can it be illegal for him to spend his own money on his campaign? I don't claim to understand a great deal about the sick and twisted nature of political financing, but this just seems idiotic to me as a matter of common sense, prenuptial agreement notwithstanding.

Second, even if she cannot, at least as an independent entity, give money directly to his campaign, it doesn't prevent her from making enormous contributions indirectly, and I would think that some of these contributions would be the bigger story.

Teresa Heinz Kerry: Financier of the Radical Left

136 posted on 02/13/2004 8:31:51 AM PST by sweetliberty (To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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To: Hon
She CANNOT give Kerry any money for his campaign. It is against the law.

Which will stop Democrats exactly how? :)

137 posted on 02/13/2004 8:33:38 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Forever is as far as I'll go.")
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To: AppyPappy
"There ain't squat in Malvern" Ye Olde Alehouse? or is that down the line in Paoli? Can't remember.
138 posted on 02/13/2004 8:41:54 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: ladyjane
This girl's parents sound really pissed. Kerry pursues and uses their daughter and then he denies it. Probably had some 'assistant' hand her airline tickets and say goodbye for him.

Unlike the Lewinsky parents, who were big Bubba fans.

139 posted on 02/13/2004 8:44:38 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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To: mlbford2
We (meaning "we as a nation") should have paid more attention when the National Enquirer broke the Gennifer Flowers connection.
140 posted on 02/13/2004 8:49:33 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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