An unconventional Ladies' Day

Washington Times ^ | 7/27/04 | Wesley Pruden

[kattracks]

Opening night was set aside to show off the ladies, but a couple of them couldn't wait. Monsieur Kerry and his nervous wise men were not amused, but the rest of us were. The loose lips that sink ships and political campaigns were all that kept us awake on Day One.
    By the time the party's most famous "wife of" stood up last night to stand by her man with the most eagerly awaited introduction of the season, the dance cards of the 15,000 reporters, editors, pundits, bloggers, interns, researchers and other expendables accredited to the Democratic National Convention were almost full.
    Hillary, you might not be surprised to hear, had some nice things to say about Bill. "Nice," in fact, is the mantra this week in Boston. But for impolitic remarks of Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of John Edwards' running mate, and Christie Vilsack, the wife of the governor of Iowa, there was no "news" in a time and place when no news is definitely not good news for the pooperazzi.
    Tact, after all, is not necessarily a requirement in wives, political or not, and when you're as rich as Teresa Heinz Kerry (or is it Teresa Kerry Heinz?) and as blond and fetching as Christie Vilsack, you can say pretty much what you want to and the old man will keep his irritation to himself.
    Mrs. Kerry Heinz started the day with the news of a little lecture on civility and how sad it is that nobody is polite in politics any longer, that all everyone wants to do is call names and say naughty things. "We need to turn back some of the creeping un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into our politics," she told the Pennsylvania delegation. Her remarks, like the remarks of everyone else this week in Boston, were (too bad for her) captured on countless tape recorders, video cameras, cell phones and other electronic gizmos lying in wait everywhere.

[goldstategop]

The Democrats' sobriquet, "Mommy Party" has never been showcased as well as it was tonight. Its a party that celebrates estrogen power over testosterone toughness. 9/11 seems like a memory. And these are the folks asking us to trust them with protecting our national security. Yeah, when pigs fly.