Father Gives Assessment of Kerry; Dean Says Don't Drink the Water

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While Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) categorically denied any such involvement to radio personality Don Imus, as this magazine went to press The Sun of London was reporting that the alleged sex scandal being talked about everywhere involved Kerry and 24-year-old Alex Polier, said to be hiding out in Kenya. The London newspaper then rehearsed alleged presidential mistresses from Sally Hemings (Jefferson) to Lucy Mercer (FDR) and Kay Summersby (Ike), to Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Kim Novak and Angie Dickinson (JFK), and of course Monica Lewinsky and the bimbettes (Clinton). According to the newspaper, the girl's mother said of her daughter that Kerry was "after her" and her father called the senator a "sleazeball."

* As the story broke, it was being reported that George W. Bush was working to discourage youthful sexcapades by budgeting $270 million in the next fiscal year for abstinence education, urging that young people confine sexual relations to marriage, almost triple what it was when he came into office. Even so, looks like it was too late for Kerry.

* Maybe it's just going to be that kind of election, but Washington insiders are seething that even as Time magazine ran a cover showing the president as two-faced, records and witnesses were confirming that he had indeed met his National Guard obligation in Alabama, just as he said. Did anyone apologize? Nary a one.

* Meanwhile, columnist Ann Coulter was reporting that front-running Democratic nominee John Kerry had spent 33 years as a poodle sitting in the lap of rich women. It certainly was nasty enough, even if it had the merit of being not only memorable but true.

* Also gaining attention were horrendous quotations from Kerry's anti-American speeches of the Vietnam War era when he led demonstrations in Washington featuring "Hanoi" Jane Fonda and assorted openly communist activists to celebrate Lenin's birthday, April 22, 1971, now feted as Earth Day

* As this surfaced, insiders remembered the remark of another Vietnam vet, Maj. Gen. George S. Patton III, who opposed Kerry's run for office because antiwar propaganda for the Viet Cong encouraged the enemy and "may have gotten some of my guys killed."

* The immortal Howard (The Duck) Dean, of course, dodged Vietnam by persuading his doctor to certify to the draft board that he had a bad back, then spent the next year or so skiing in Colorado. And, speaking to children at a middle school in Wisconsin, Dean recently offered what an insider called the Hobson's Choice of the Democratic primary: "I do not recommend drinking urine ... but if you drink water straight from the river, you have a greater chance of getting an infection than you do if you drink urine." Right, Howard, but ...

* For Sale! In the five years before such payoffs were outlawed, insiders report, Sen John Kerry took $120,000 in so-called speaker fees from 90 interest groups. These included a "speech" for cash (and contributions from its executives) to a Miami bank eventually indicted and put out of business for helping the Cali Drugs cartel launder money. Kerry was at the time chairman of a Senate committee with oversight of drug trafficking and money laundering, but claims he didn't know about the drug-money connections of his benefactors.

* Women including film actresses Morgan Fairchild and Michelle Phillips who "dated" John Kerry during his first marriage or afterward are making a point of contributing to other candidates. The insider was unable to reach their fathers to see if they regard Kerry as a sleazeball.

* A well-known Democratic player is being quoted as saying: "John Kerry is so vain that a former girlfriend says he always wanted to make love where he could see himself in the mirror!"

c Insider Jerry Seper says that, according to Homeland Security sources, al-Qaeda is operating sleeper cells across the U.S., conducting preattack casing and surveillance, acquiring and operating safe houses, recruiting members, raising money and keeping open communications with terrorist planners abroad.

* As for those admissions that Pakistani physicists had proliferated nuclear technology to North Korea, Libya and Iran, insiders say the top GOP and Democratic leadership were briefed on it a year ago. Trying to make trouble for the current government of Pervez Musharraf, former premier Benazir Bhutto, under whom the transfers are said to have been made, assured Greta Van Susteren, "Heads will roll." If hypocrisy were a capital offense, Bhutto would be hanged as high as her late traitorous father.

* And, finally, the primary fight between Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) and former congressman Bob Dornan got ugly this month when Dornan tied Rohrabacher to what he said were dubious Middle East groups. True enough, but Dornan cited as proof the work of an investigative reporter he once took to the airwaves to call a "scabrous, scandalous, calumny-spreading homosexual tool," and whose paper he had denounced as "Satan's instrument." As the insider knows, ye takes yer scoops where ye finds 'em.