However, could anyone imagine this low class slob stumbling around the White House?
I mean, is being a democrat a mental disorder?
This woman looks like the madam of a cheap escort service.
Posted on 11/24/2005 9:03:16 PM PST by HonduGOP
What made Teresa Heinz Kerry so refreshing to some voters, and threatening to others on the 2004 campaign trail, is summed up when THK talks about her speech to last year's Democratic convention:
"Nobody told me what to do," she told a Saturday fund-raiser here.
The implicit afterword: Nobody better try.
In her speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, Teresa Heinz Kerry said "no one will defend this nation more vigorously" than her husband, John Kerry. The sails of the philanthropist wife of Sen. John Kerry were not trimmed by November's narrow electoral defeat.
The softly accented voice gives pointed advice to the Democratic Party, which she lately joined, formerly having spent 15 years as wife of a Senate Republican.
Heinz Kerry flew into town on her own Gulfstream jet (the Flying Squirrel, named for a Sun Valley ski run) direct from a conference on global philanthropy at Stanford.
She talked energy-efficient building design with Seattle Art Museum boss (and old friend) Mimi Gates. She dined at Wild Ginger and flew back east with takeout food from the Third Avenue restaurant.
At a lunch for Rep. Adam Smith, guests were treated to more spicy observations than will likely be heard at all fund-raisers under the Westin's roof from now to the 2008 presidential race. A sampling:
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: A practicing Catholic, as is her husband, Heinz Kerry remains outraged at attacks by bishops on her husband's pro-choice views.
"You cannot have bishops in the pulpit -- long before or the Sunday before the election -- as they did in Catholic churches, saying it was a mortal sin to vote for John Kerry," she said.
Heinz Kerry gave no examples. Last year, a few ultraconservative prelates said they would not allow the Democratic nominee to receive communion in their dioceses. The bishop of Colorado Springs declared that Catholics voting for pro-choice candidates were not welcome at the communion rail.
"The church has a right and obligation to teach values," Heinz Kerry declared. "They don't have a right to restrict freedom of expression, which they did."
COUNTING THE VOTES: Heinz Kerry is openly skeptical about results from November's election, particularly in sections of the country where optical scanners were used to record votes.
"Two brothers own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States," Heinz Kerry said. She identified both as "hard-right" Republicans. She argued that it is "very easy to hack into the mother machines."
"We in the United States are not a banana republic," added Heinz Kerry. She argued that Democrats should insist on "accountability and transparency" in how votes are tabulated.
"I fear for '06," she said. "I don't trust it the way it is right now."
A SECOND KERRY RUN: Heinz Kerry won't stand in the way of a second presidential bid by her husband. She tersely summed up emotions at the end of November's long election night: "No tears, some sadness."
"I think we should focus on '06: If '06 doesn't work out, '08 will be impossible," she argued. "If it were right for John to do it -- and he felt right -- he would do it again (in 2008). If he didn't feel it right, he wouldn't."
Theresa Heinz Kerry campaigned tirelessly -- "When I put out, I put out" -- but seemed to scorn the political wife's expected role of fixing her husband in adoring upward gaze.
At Saturday's fund-raiser, she talked openly about conflicting emotions when confronted with her spouses' ambitions. Born in Mozambique of Portuguese parents, she was married to Republican Sen. John Heinz of Pennsylvania. Heinz was killed in a 1991 air crash.
She inherited her husband's fortune, took charge of Heinz family endowments and married Kerry in 1995.
"I kept my first husband from running for office for four years," she explained. "Terrified" at the prospect of public life, as a non-native born American, Heinz Kerry adjusted to what she described as a life of "losses, diseases, hurt, disappointments and many joys."
She confessed to similar self-doubts when John Kerry launched his bid for the White House: "I'm too old. I can't handle it. I have too much to do."
A hike by herself in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho gave THK time to reach another conclusion: "I thought, 'There's no way I have a right to keep him from doing it'. "
She was always a hit in Seattle -- even while Deaniacs had John Kerry's campaign in the doldrums -- but ran into bumps on the campaign trail.
She responded to nasty questions by a columnist with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a paper owned by right-wing mogul Richard Mellon Scaife, using words familiar to many Americans: "Shove it!"
The Drudge Report, a popular conservative Web site, missed no opportunity to run unflattering pictures of THK or float untruthful personal rumors about her husband.
A gossipy, superficial book on the 2004 campaign by the Washington, D.C., bureau of Newsweek depicted Heinz Kerry as a loose cannon requiring constant maintenance.
Heinz Kerry is still steamed at what the Republican attack machine did to her husband.
"Think about last year," she said. "Once John had his nomination, the Republicans spent $90 million to destroy his reputation."
She cited dirty tricks used in the campaign to mobilize what the religious right called "Values Voters."
"In West Virginia, John was going to burn Bibles," she said. "It's not 'values.' It's outright lies."
Often a vigorous overseer of grants, Heinz Kerry has taken a lesson from the concentrated incoming fire she received from the right flank.
"We have to develop a discipline for this party, so the people of this country know more clearly what it is to be a Democrat," she said.
She came away from 2004 with a high opinion of Americans' ideals and gratitude to a campaign that exceeded Bill Clinton's winning vote total of 1996 by 9 million votes.
"Basically, we are at a crux, a crossroads right now," Heinz Kerry said. "It's no place for self-indulgence. It's no place for looking back. We must be totally committed to this journey ... to believe again, to hope again."
John Kerry long ago destroyed his own "reputation".
Naaaaw, no bias in *this* article.
She is looking for all kinds of excuses for America's rejection of John Kerry's agenda. God forbid that we see her in the campaign trail again!
Democrats are the party of voter fraud, without voter fraud the Democrat party would have to fold up camp and move to another country.
Republicans would love a fraud free vote where one had to show a government ID, but the Democrats won't stand for such fraud free elections.
Translation: Still nuts.
All these people know how to do is whine!
My goodness .. she better stick with her raisens soaked in Gin.
"so the people of this country know more clearly what it is to be a Democrat,"
Ohhhhh, THEY KNOW, THEY KNOW!
Thats why YOUR husband lost TehRAYzah!
Have another gin-soaked raisin Terayza.
Benedict Arnold defended us pretty will, too.
"She responded to nasty questions by a columnist with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a paper owned by right-wing mogul Richard Mellon Scaife, using words familiar to many Americans: 'Shove it!'"
I remember this! She'd called someone or something unAmerican, and the reporter asked her what she meant, or something like that. It wasn't "nasty" at all. What a stupid b*tch she is. We can thank God today we avoided having her as our First Lady, let alone that idiot-gigelo husband of hers.
Nice to see that kerry's meal ticket is still on the pills and booze.
JennysColl wrote:
Translation: Still nuts.
LMAO! So true, THK is still nuts!
That's fine by me. Please encourage this woman to keep talking.
She had plenty of political advisors who controlled what she said. Chief among them were Jim Beam and Johnny Walker.
Next time you get mad at GWB, remember the Kerrys and the Gores
He's mentally incompetent, and she's feeble minded. A great pair for the Presidency - of Zimbabwe!
ONLY a Seattle fish wrap could treat this lunatic with respect...
Her ONLY accomplishment of merit, was her first marriage..
Her second marriage proved her inability to think...
Semper Fi
Still crazy after all these years.
Now that is someone who would NEVER make a First Lady. She is too crude and too crass. No manners at all.
Theresa Heinz Kerry campaigned tirelessly on the theme -- "When I put out, I put out"
NO THANK YOU. I WILL PASS ON THAT OFFER!
Amazing to think she was, at the time, apparently the happy wife of a Republican senator.
Why are you posting an article from March?
I thopught she dropped the Kerry from her name?
So is Hillary!
And here is my email to Joel Connelly, liberal activist at the soon to be out of business Seattle P-I (and that ain't just wishfull thinking).
Mr. Connelly:
Some interesting things I observed in your column about Ms THK as you refer to her.
The following section caught my eye.
She responded to nasty questions by a columnist with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a paper owned by right-wing mogul Richard Mellon Scaife, using words familiar to many Americans: "Shove it!"
In fact the exchange in question took place after THK called an opponent of her husband "un-american" and the questions were in the vein of "can you explain what you meant by calling so and so un-american?"
It is also of some note to me, maybe yourself as well since I know your love of the environment, what mode of transportation THK used to get to Seattle.
Heinz Kerry flew into town on her own Gulfstream jet (the Flying Squirrel, named for a Sun Valley ski run) direct from a conference on global philanthropy at Stanford.
Ah, yes, the ever eco-friendly mode of transportation for those who would tell us what size car to drive, the Gulfstream Jet. How much fuel could be saved if she just flew First Class?
And how can a rational, sane person such as yourself not scoff at the idea that someone 'hacked into the mother computer'? Please, if you can't see signs of voter fraud in K.C. elections, how can you even put THK's comments in the piece without placing some words nearby pointing out the tin foil she should be wearing on her head?
Another obvious lunk headed statement from THK.
'The church has a right and obligation to teach values," Heinz Kerry declared. "They don't have a right to restrict freedom of expression, which they did.'
The Catholic Church has its beliefs and can promote them as they see fit. It's a volunteer based club. If JKH or THK don't like it they can choose not to join, but the church has no power to "...restrict freedom of expression... ."
It also may interest you that she no longer uses the K for Kerry. She's gone back to the TH now that the election is over.
"When I put out, I put out"
I don't even want to think about it.
I guess winning by more than 3 million votes does count for "narrow" in Dim circles.
"You cannot have bishops in the pulpit -- long before or the Sunday before the election -- as they did in Catholic churches, saying it was a mortal sin to vote for John Kerry," she said.
Heinz Kerry gave no examples. Last year, a few ultraconservative prelates said they would not allow the Democratic nominee to receive communion in their dioceses. The bishop of Colorado Springs declared that Catholics voting for pro-choice candidates were not welcome at the communion rail.
A practicing Catholic? I'm rolling my eyes here...
A little humor for your ping list, NYer.
However, could anyone imagine this low class slob stumbling around the White House?
I mean, is being a democrat a mental disorder?
This woman looks like the madam of a cheap escort service.
That was obvious.
"Nobody better try."
Hopeless, huh?
"The softly accented voice gives pointed advice to the Democratic Party"
I hope they take it.
I think he would make a fine "First Lady", Much better than Slick Willie. So nice Ther-ray-zah can't run though.
You beat me to it, I heard that on Rush last week too! Rush wondered if she'd use it again if sKerry decided to run again in 2008!
Then he joked how they would have to change the names on their checkbooks & then said they wouldn't, since she has all the money!!! LOL
Deep down inside she is still a Republican. She hasn't let go of the correct values and is sabotaging the other side by her antics. As Dr. Freud would say.
I hope Kerry does run again. Theresa is pure comedy.
I have a feeling that Mrs. Kerry injests a load of gin more then she could get on some raisin.
Hi, I posted this article after reviewing the Free Republic database and noticing that it had not benn posted before. I found the article interesting because it, once again, demonstrated the state of denial of the Kerry campaign, even after losing convincingly to President Bush in last year's election. And this is going to be the mantra of the Democrats in 2006 and 2008. Teresa has done a service to the GOP by clearly stating the talking points for the next election cycle (which were put in the backburner because of the Dems fascination with Katrina, Rove, Supreme Court, Sheehan, etc.)
Good point. Plus, articles about Ther-ray-zaa are always a hoot.
Monday, March 7, 2005?
And she has since dropped the Kerry, BTW.
Oh absolutely. hillereee was probably the worst first lady we ever had and...the worst dressed as well. I'll never forget one of those tent parties/dinner they had for some foreign dignitary. My GOD the outfit she wore was a real nightmare. Don't know who designed it or who told her it would be good for her but....it was AWFUL. Simply AWFUL. Jacqueline Kennedy would have been apalled at the sight of it. But then again...Jackie had taste. hilleree doesn't never did and never will.
No, to be a REAL First Lady you have to be someone special like Jackie, Barbara Bush, Patricia Nixon, Lady Bird Johnson and of course, our wonderful, beautiful, tasteful, elegant First Lady Laura Welch Bush.
The above ladies were and are everything hillereee is not. Not just clothes, but mannerisms, speech, you name it.
"A hike by herself in the Sawtooth Mountains"
This woman is so nutty that even the bears were fearful!
This article reminded me of one of those Find Waldo pictures...how many unsubstantiated accusations and claims can you find in one article?
ROTFLMAO!
"When I put out, I put out"
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