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.
That's about it.
Lets go a little bit further. Kerry is hooked into going with the phony documents because the CLintonista's tell Kerry Dan Rather is on board and will run with the story on 60 Minutes and make it the lead story on the CBS Evening News as long as it has traction. If it looses traction Rather will apologize and bury the story. There is no possibility of damage to Kerry. Kerry jumps in with both feet.
Almost overnight the authenticity of the documents are challenged by experts from all over the US. It's pretty obvious the documents are phony and won't fly with the public. Kerry doesn't worry assuming Rather will apologize and move on to the Kitty Kelly book.
Now comes to good part. Rather insists the documents are authentic while at the same time admitting the document are photocopies, probably photocopies of photocopies of photocopies. Rather won't back off brings in a handwriting analyst to verify Killian's signature on a photocopy. The signature is the easy part of the documents to transfer from an original and authenticate. The expert addresses no other part of the document. The expert also turns out to be somebody who analyzed Courtney Loves husband's suicide note as well as Vince Foster's. Whoops the handwriting expert is connected to the Clintonista's.
So Rather continues to push the story and Kerry is being damaged every hour it continues and he has noway to stop Rather.
Yep, Kerry is the dumbest SOB in the country.