I think your missing what is happening. The Clinton Hit Machine has been activated for an all out push to discredit Kerry. and get that fool (not my opinion theirs, I think Bush is a political genius and a great war President), Bush, elected.
Then Kerry is even dumber than I thought he was. The train of thought in your argument runs something like this:
Hillary wants to be Pres. She figures she doesn't have much time to wait. She can't allow Kerry to win and then re-run in '08, because she can't wait until 2012. So, Bill The Rat calls JF'n Kerry and says he can send in Carville, et al to help pull his [Kerry's] campaign out of the crap hole that its in. Kerry, being the gullible fool that he is, agrees. Kerry plays his hand with a phony memo, moves even further left to energize his base, and the rest is history - President Bush gets reelected in a landslide, Hillary gets to run for the nomination in '08. If true, Kerry is the dumbest SOB in the country.