Hey, I don't like Kerry any more than anyone else here. I lived in MA for a number of years and had to suffer from Tweedle-Dumb and Tweedle-Dumber being my senators
But that doesn't excuse behavior on the other side of the aisle, either. And when you put together the mortgage, the bizarre charges to the PAC and the low giving percentage of the charity...it looks bad.
In a way, it does "excuse" it. Because if the media could not find its way to investigate or find fault with John Kerry, Hillary/Bill Clinton, etc., why on Earth would we suddenly take seriously a hit piece on a vulnerable incumbent coming out during a campaign season? There's no "there" there.