Remember when President Clinton decided, soon after the Lewinsky scandal broke, that admitting the truth might hurt him, so he told Dick Morris "I guess we'll just have to win then."

It looks like Kerry has decided to do the same thing. i really can't blame him. i mean, Clinton did win in the end, didn't he? The country lost, but Clinton beat the rap.

Via brainstorming, this Reuters story:

U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry on Friday denied a report that he had had an extramarital affair with a young woman.

Asked about the report by Internet Web site operator Matt Drudge, Kerry told reporters on his campaign: 'I just deny it categorically. It's rumor. It's untrue. Period.'

After denying the report, Kerry added: 'And that's the last time I intend to.'

Drudge, who broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal involving former President Bill Clinton, on Thursday said Kerry had had a two-year relationship, beginning in early 2001, with a young woman who had since left the country.

Emperor Misha still has the best take on this whole sad mess:

[W]e won't know the truth until Jean-Pierre Kerry stops 'stonewalling' and releases all the records of every single sexual encounter he's had for the last 30 years complete with DNA samples, pictures and audio recordings, not to mention affidavits from his partners, notarized and in triplicate. Until then, we must assume he's guilty. Isn't that how it goes nowadays?

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1 Pretty much. Can you say double standard? I know I can.

Posted by: joe at February 13, 2004 08:59 PM (a9Ugz)

2 Thanks, Annika, I appreciate it very much. You're really too kind

Posted by: Emperor Misha I at February 13, 2004 10:40 PM (CP9wX)

3 HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY... HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD ONE... ^_^

Posted by: maizzy at February 14, 2004 07:19 AM (B5FT5)

4 eh Annie? even Drudge has backed away from that story as unsupported.. i'd love to see a post about ashcroft trying to get into the medical records of women who have had abortions... hint hint... :-) coyote

Posted by: coyote at February 14, 2004 07:57 AM (cfoFZ)

5 i'd like to see it completely resolved, with facts.. so the farking thing can be put to bed. it KEEPS coming up, because it seems that there is evidence to support both arguments. Nicely put 'yote. I'm sure you'll be in favor of of a full inquiry to put this rumor on John F***n' Kerry to bed. Anyway, I really don't care (really don't, really don't care) as long as he didn't commit perjury and lie to Congress about it. Happy Valentines Day to all you sweet gals out there.

Posted by: d-rod at February 14, 2004 10:08 AM (s6c4t)

6 Hey Coyote, got a link on Drudge backing away from the report? i'd like to see it.

Posted by: annie at February 14, 2004 11:12 AM (kn0NS)

7 "Minor detail spoils media's fun over Kerry sex allegation: 'Nobody has been able to confirm that it was true'..." on the drudge front page..left side second from top d-rod- you mistakenly assume (yet again) that i defend any of clinton's actions. as far as i've been able to tell, clinton no longer has much to say about the destiny of this country, and it therefore, no longer a factor. and don't throw stones about lying to congress.. bush does it all the time. the allegations against Kerry are pure rumor, and i for one would love to see it put to bed. matters not to me though, as i see it, any of the folks with their hats in the ring are lessor criminals than w. and when it really boils down to the simmering crap that it is, we really are only picking the lessor of the evils aren't we? arf coyote

Posted by: coyote at February 14, 2004 12:12 PM (cfoFZ)

8 You mistakingly assume that I "assumed" things about you, coyote. I see the rumors about Kerry as somewhat irrelevant compared to the fact that he doesn't have a plan to protect Americans from terrorism and essentially wants to convert the war on terror into a police action. He even refered to the Wahhabi strain of Islam as "Wasabis" and didn't know that he had a Hezbollah-sympathizing propaganda machine on his mailing list. Bush is a genius compared to this guy.

Posted by: d-rod at February 15, 2004 09:15 AM (iUfVb)

9 "Bush is a genius compared to this guy." thats just frightening.. maybe we best find a candiate with a brain to to run against bush, thereby removing any remote chance that bush may appear centiant. :-) coyote

Posted by: coyote at February 15, 2004 09:40 PM (cfoFZ)

10 Politics can get pretty stoopid sometimes.

Posted by: d-rod at February 15, 2004 10:38 PM (BkjKY)

11 i went away for a fews days and this story seems to have vanished.. whats up with that? arf coyote

Posted by: coyote at February 18, 2004 04:24 PM (cfoFZ)

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