But it is a measure of the damage she did to her reputation in this campaign that the woman speaking was a Kerry supporter and a natural Teresa ally, who had been turned off by the sense that Teresa had not been a team player in this campaign; that she is an egocentric, arrogant, full-of-herself, spoiled rotten witch, with a checkbook, who thinks that just because she's rich she's smarter than anybody else.
If that's not the real Teresa Heinz Kerry, she needs to do some real work to step forward. Susan gets it about THK for sure. But she could have gone on to add: "with a checkbook and a serious and obvious drug-and-alcohol problem..."
I have never seen Susan and don't know anything about her alleged drinking, but perhaps the "Lush Factor" didn't come up in her analysis of THK because it was a sensitive topic for her.