Clinton to Co-opt Kerry Campaign for Book Tour
NewsMax.com Wires
June 14, 2004

The front-page headline in Monday's New York Times reads "Clinton Planning to Use Book Tour to Assist Kerry."

But staffers for Kerry's presidential campaign fear the truth will end up being the other way around: Clinton intends to co-opt the Kerry campaign as a front for his book tour.

Of course, Clintonistas are insisting that nothing could be further from the truth.

"He wants to make sure that there is no way that anything he does is competing with or intruding on the attention paid to Senator Kerry," the ex-president's current political adviser, Steve Richetti, insisted to the Times.

But Clinton's former political adviser Dick Morris says that promise is laughable.

"If he wants to help Kerry, why does he need to bring his book out now?" Morris asked Internet scribe Matt Drudge on his Sunday radio show. "He'll still be an ex-president after November."

Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Democrat is stuck pretending he enjoys being overshadowed by Clinton, lest Bill and Hill instruct their longtime political operative, presidential Media Fund director Harold Ickes, to tighten the spigot on Kerry's soft-money cash flow.

"I intend to get [Clinton] to campaign as much as he can," Kerry told the Times sheepishly. "I think he's good."