As soon as I saw this I knew it was fiction. The sort of fiction women can spot.
This probably came from one of the daughters...maybe Kerry himself.
While some of the other tidbits have the ring of truth to it, demonstrating that input came from many others within the campaign, this bit about the ex-wife feeling Kerry's wounds...well this is a lie and a woman would know this straight off.
Julia Thorne hates John Kerry. What woman wouldn't hate a man who left her for a richer one?
Kerry is at his most vulnerable on the Vietnam purple heart thing. He knows it and face it, the man is still a Senator from Massachusetts. Thus he has to at the least keep up the lie about his purple hearts and dishonorable discharge. All the crap about his presidential campaign is water under the bridge but the Vietnam bit really hurt him. I mean, who knows, someday even the folks in Mass. might get a clue and not want to vote for a man who faked his purple hearts and put his fellow Vets in danger.
What are the talking points? Estrich asked the Kerry campaign. There are none, she was told. Estrich was startled. She had seen this bad movie before.
With this admission...why would anyone ever watch a "pundit" show again?