Kerry Ex-Lover Speaks

The Boston Herald reports on a woman named Lee Whitnum who claims to be John Kerry's ex-lover and who has written a fictional account of their relationship. Whitnum, described as a novelist, says she had a "steamy secret 20-month fling" with Kerry who she says is "intoxicating" and "very romantic."

Curiously, several Internet searches for 'Whitnum' and 'Lee Roystone' (her pseudonym) found no results other than a paid advertisement for her bookselling website. Also curious is that her supposed tell-all book doesn't seem to tell anything other than how Kerry cooked lobster and spoke French while she warmed his kielbasa.

All-in-all, it doesn't seem like Whitnum has much to offer and, as a writer and novelist, nobody seems to have heard of her. Consequently, a skeptical and suspicious person might think that the timing and subject matter of this latest "revealing" news is nothing more than a political ploy to angle some randy Clintonesque panache onto the cold porridge personality of John Kerry.