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.
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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?
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.
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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. Im sure their people (cant bring myself to refer to them as reporters) are all over this. This is just day 2 of Kerrys bimbo eruption. Just give them time.
I find it humorous though that CBSNBCABCCNNMSBCNewYorkTimesWashingtonPost wont touch this, but after NE breaks it and has the solid facts out, then theyll be all over it.
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
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.
I'm kinda anxious to hear Rush's follow-up today.
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.
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.
Which will stop Democrats exactly how? :)
Unlike the Lewinsky parents, who were big Bubba fans.
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