MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE at the New York Press suggests last week’s Drudge Report attempt to jump-start a Kerry sex scandal just might have been a Republican smear attempt. If so, it was a particularly pathetic such attempt. But don’t worry. I’m sure the GOP Sleaze Machine will try far worse things as it gets ever more desperate–up to and including some of the shticks of its role models Pinochet and Marcos.