Good question - Why? Here's my two cents. I don't have any proof - just speculating. Call me CBS News.
John Kerry is Dan Rather's boy. They are both left wing (dare I say communist?) ideologues. What is their history? Kerry slanders Vietnam vets, conspires with the North Vietnamese govt in Paris around 1971, and becomes a very liberal Senator. Did Dan cover for him way back then? I don't know (I was 4 years old), but I think there's a story there about the relationship between these two for an ambitious investigator. Dan Rather put out a piece in 1988 about the 'disfunctional' Vietnam vets that has since been totally discredited. My point is that if John F. Kerry and the MSM are as communist and corrupted as I believe they are, he is simply the best chance they've got to get someone elected president and they will do anything.
I know you've got to swallow a lot to believe any of this, but this is the internet and I can say what I want. :) I'll put my tinfoil hat away now. Take care.
Let me amplify a bit on the "very liberal Senator" point.
Running in that first Senate race in 1984, Kerry's campaign published the memo Zell used in that speech last month. In THIS memo, known to be authentic, Kerry proposed the virtual abolition of the DoD as we know it. Since being a 70's retread peacenik was no bar to election in the Massachussetts of 1984, he won.
As a freshman Senator, he went to Nicaragua with Tom (Pile-O-Dung) Harkin to bolster Danny Ortega's Sandinista's against the Contras and what Lurch still refers to as "Reagan's Illegal War in Central America." Taken with his earlier running interference for North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, that looks bad to some of us.
But, in his defense, he hasn't used his now 20-year Senate career to try to bury us under a blizzard of legislation. He has got nothing passed, which is unsurprising since he has sponsored nothing. It has been said that he has no record, but that's not quite right. Despite a stunningly high absenteeism, he has a voting record and it stinks.
But, did you know he served in Vietnam?