Here's a take on Bob Kerry:
Bob Kerry was the immediate past president of The New School [formerly, The New School for Social Research] in Greenwich Village, New York City.
The New School is the most flaming leftist university in the whole wide world. Berkeley?? Antioch??? Fuhgeddeaboudem!!!!. The New School is the nursery-hatchery-incubator for the entire East Coast leftist-socialist-radical-statist crowd. Makes the Chicago Socialist Party (Saul Alinsky, Hillary Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama, William Ayers) look like a kindergarten party. Noam Chomsky holds seminars at the New School.
The fact that the New School hired Bob Kerry in spite of his Medal of Honor militarist record [a whole separate story] is testimony that they thought all his deep statist=socialist impulses were totally sufficient to offset his very significant warrior history.
You can start from there.