WHY THE U-TURN?

The spectacular reversal of faith in John Kerry displayed by the parents of a woman who did not, apparently, have an affair with Kerry is a little creepy, is it not? On Friday, as Drudge has pointed out, the father said: “I know my wife will not be voting for Mr Kerry, let’s put it that way… Two years ago he was all for gay marriage, now he’s against it. Not that I care one way or the other, it’s just there have been so many things where I have seen him reverse. Whatever audience he is talking to, he will tell them what they want to hear.” The father also referred to Kerry as a “sleazeball.” Now it’s all sweetness and light: “We appreciate the way Senator Kerry has handled the situation and intend on voting for him for President of the United States.” The father says he was previously misquoted. If he was, that is in itself a story. That’s a hell of a quote to have fabricated. Dirty tricks again? Or maybe Kerry’s classy rebuttal to any rumors swayed the couple into seeing him as a man of sterling character. But the extreme reversal of opinion still strikes me as strange – and possibly dangerous for Kerry. And now, as Principal Skinner once put it, “Let’s have no more curiosity about this bizarre cover-up.”