Well, I'm not so sure it helps the DEM party at all, and also not sure that it helps Hillary!. Depends on where the public affixes blame.
It hurts Kerry in any event, because this story takes over and he can't get his message out.
If the mud sticks to the DEM party as a whole, it won't matter who is on the ticket come November, that candidate will not get a majority of the electoral college.
Kinda funny, but I bet "name to be chosen" on the DEM ticket would pull more votes than Kerry would. And I still think Kerry will NOT be on the ticket. I am not sure if Hillary! will step in, but there really is no downside if she does. She won't be tainted with a loss, because she didn't get a chance to run.
"And I still think Kerry will NOT be on the ticket."
One can only hope for that outcome. I really doubt it, but if it came true, oh how keystone cops it would make the democratic party look.
No, Kerry is simply a lamb, bleating loudly on the way to a very large electoral college defeat. Hillary is nodding w/ approval, and will hold her first fundraiser on Nov 3, 2004.
The reason that "THE" story is now the swirling intrigue surrounding the the source for the now proven "Forgeries", is that the TANG story was "old news" and boring. No one cared about it because there was no sex, drugs, or alcohol etc involved. Tom Clancy couldn't have written a better chapter!
This puppy has major "hang time"!!!
LLS