I saw the writers on CSPAN tonight. They were given unfettered access to both campaigns, on the promise that they would not report anything until the election was over. That is why none of this came out before.
Heinz Kerry's registration switch will enable her to vote for her husband in the Pennsylvania primary next spring. But she says the impetus behind the change was anger at the way Republicans conducted the elections in 2002. She says she feels "alien" from the conservative tilt of the party. She was upset about attacks on Max Cleland, then a senator from Georgia, a Vietnam veteran who lost three limbs in battle. The upsetting tactic? "You know, that he was unpatriotic," she says. She does not add, as she did in January to the Boston Herald, "Does he have to lose a fourth limb to be patriotic?"
She is trying to say nothing interesting enough for gossip columns.
"I like boring. I'll take boring," she says, and looks at her famously studious, long-winded husband. "I'll talk the boring, and he can talk the fluff."