Kerry Warns Opponents Not to Attack His Wife

AP via Yahoo! ^ | May 11, 2004 | AP

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

LOUISVILLE, KY. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry warned his political opponents on Monday against attacking his outspoken wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, saying, "They're going to have to go through me."

The Massachusetts senator also sought to dispel the notion he was aloof, asking one television interviewer: "Have you had a beer with me yet? I like to have fun as much as the next person, and go out and hack around and have a good time."

Worth an estimated $500 million, born in Mozambique and fluent in five languages, Mrs. Kerry can be controversial and blunt, disclosing her Botox injections, her prenuptial agreement with Kerry and the fact he was in the bathroom when he got word of his wins in Iowa and New Hampshire.

"If they want to attack her, they're going to have to go through me. I'll be the first to defend anything she does. ... She doesn't pull her punches," Kerry said in one television interview when asked if Republicans were targeting his wife.

"I think that they're foolhardy to do it, personally, because I think that she's so down to earth and so straightforward," Kerry said. "I think people who meet her love her."

Mrs. Kerry has been criticized for her outspokenness and candor, and some Republican commentators have also called on her to release her tax returns.

While she is wealthy from her marriage to former Republican Sen. John Heinz, the heir to the Pittsburgh ketchup empire, she said Sen. Kerry was not. She can only contribute the same $2,000 to his campaign everyone else can.

Kerry was able, however, to mortgage the couple's townhouse in Boston to take out a $6.4 million loan to keep his campaign afloat.

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Where's that DNC crybaby logo!!!

[Peach]

Lordy. First he "pretends" the administration attacked his patriotism, which they hadn't done.

Now he "pretends" the administration has attacked his wife, which they haven't done.

[Cicero]

"If you attack my wife, I'll cry! So there!"

[opinionator]

and some Republican commentators have also called on her to release her tax returns

Since when is the New York Times a Republican commentator?

[kcvl]

When his wife attacks Bush and Cheney and calls them unpatriotic I CAN ATTACK HER ANY TIME I PLEASE! If she gets to decide who can comment on her husband's military service ONLY if they also served, I can make the rules about ONLY people who are born in this country getting to make comments about it.

In other words she can just STFU or get out of the kitchen! I'll be MORE THAN HAPPY to "go through him" since he is SUCH A COWARD that he has to send his little wife out to attack his opponents then demand that she is off base.

[jwalburg]

Has anyone paid the least bit attention to his wife? Just a stunt to show he's a tough guy after falling off his bike and blaming sand.

[ShandaLear]

For the last few days all I can think of to say to this man is F. off.

[TomGuy]

Is John Kerry having an Edmund Muskie moment?

On PBS, EDMUND S. MUSKIE: (February 1972) By attacking me, by attacking my wife, he has proved himself to be a gutless coward. And maybe I said all I should on it. It's fortunate for him he's not on this platform beside me. A good woman--

[hole_n_one]

While she is wealthy from her marriage to former Republican Sen. John Heinz, the heir to the Pittsburgh ketchup empire, she said Sen. Kerry was not. She can only contribute the same $2,000 to his campaign everyone else can.

Kerry was able, however, to mortgage the couple's townhouse in Boston to take out a $6.4 million loan to keep his campaign afloat.

That's a big loophole!

How big is it?

It's so big that Hillary could walk thru without the aid of butter and a shoehorn.

[HighWheeler]

"They're going to have to go through me."

OK, suit yourself.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Gotta go through him, huh? How much problem would it to plow through a twinkie?

[leprechaun9]

"She doesn't pull her punches," Kerry said.

The real question is does she pull you????

[kcvl]

roflol!

[plain talk]

I'll attack her. She's an strange, rich, ugly bitch who should disclose her tax returns.

[Smartass]

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Don't attack my wife

Or you'll what? Throw your medals at me?

[Radioactive]

Yeah but it's OK for her to put millions into Moveon.org and attack the Republicans.

[RippleFire]

Say something unkind about the Botox Babe? Not me.

[THX 1138]

This is silly.

Kerry is coming unhinged.

[highlandbreeze]

Oh, I'm sorry, did John F'n say something?