John Kerry’s Secret Ingredient

Newsweek ^ | June 30 issue | Newsweek

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Presidential candidate John Kerry with aspiring First Lady Teresa Heinz Kerry after a Boston fundraiser
John Kerry’s Secret Ingredient
Rich, smart and candid, Teresa Heinz Kerry has thawed John Kerry and is spicing up the 2004 race. A portrait of a marriage

By Melinda Henneberger NEWSWEEK

June 30 issue —  Teresa Heinz Kerry emerges from her Boston town house in a black workout leotard and dark glasses (though the morning is overcast), nibbling a handful of granola en route to her Pilates class. For a minute, she stops to chat with the young man who will be driving her husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, around that day. And, leaning up against the campaign van, she asks him to make sure the senator actually eats the healthful lunch their maid has prepared for him and packed in a Whole Foods bag.

[finnman69]

"I love you honey....(if only I could slide my hand in her purse without her noticing..>rats!)"

[txzman]

The Politically Correct, New England wealthy version of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Pardon me while I stick my finger down my throat.

[Recovering_Democrat]

AAAAAawwww, I see a big, huge, sloppy, lameass KISS coming to a TV screen near us. oh, wait, that didn't work LAST TIME either, did it?? BWA HA HA HA HA HA!

Come on, NewsWEAK...can't you guys try a different tact when selling 'rats to the American people??

[basil]

Ah yes! The beautiful people. It's always such a treat when we peasants get a tiny glimpse into their lives......

[bogeybob]

Why the long face this morning honey?

[americafirst]

I am reminded of the press coverage when Newt became Speaker - something like 100 out of 100 articles written about him were negative. Every single article I see written about Teresa Heinz makes her look like Mother Theresa. Good thing that the media isn't biased or anything.

[facedown]

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No thanks.

[Hinoki Cypress]

No thanks also, I making breakfast.

[ErnBatavia]

Is he doing the Clinton thing with hair? Sometimes "youthful", sometimes "statesman like"?

[dennisw]

Imagine his high powered loon as first lady. YIKES!!!

[whereasandsoforth]

Imagine his high powered loon as first lady. YIKES!!!

I sure she wouldn't actually live in the White House. She would never scale-down.

[thegreatbeast]

Many think she will go off the reservation and deal a big blow to Kerry's campaign. She is haughty, convinced of the superiority of what SHE thinks.
"She certainly does not hide the fact that she grieves for both her late husband and his now virtually extinct brand of centrist Republicanism." They used to be called Rockefeller Republicans or Country Club Republicans.
She has more starch than the present Senator Heinz.

[jocon307]

"Imagine his high powered loon as first lady. YIKES!!!"

This lady IS a real nut. She makes Hillary! look like Jackie Kennedy, if not Barbara Bush. First of all, she's not even an American, she a white African by birth. Second of all, she's a loonie. She gave some speach to some women's political club in Mass. the other day that I read was a complete disaster. Never mentioned hubby (the haughty french looking candidate who btw fought in vietnam as mr. taranto puts it)even ONE time.

And she's not the type who will sit home & shut up. After our experience with La Hill, I don't think we will be sending Ms. Out-of-Africa into a Ketchup Fortune to the White House. At least I hope we won't.

[dennisw]

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...


Monday Dec. 2, 2002; 11:52 p.m. EST

Boston's Carr Rips 'Liveshot' Kerry

While presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., received the kind of oh-so-serious treatment he no doubt thinks he deserves during Sunday's hourlong "Meet the Press" campaign commercial - er - interview, some of the folks back home in Boston are bursting out in laughter at the thought of "President Kerry."

WRKO radio talker Howie Carr, for instance, shared a Kerry anecdote or two last week with the readers of his Boston Herald column; tidbits "Meet the Press" apparently just didn't have time to squeeze in.

"John 'Liveshot' Kerry stories? I got a million of 'em," the no-holds-barred host began.

"Liveshot was the first male politician I ever saw wearing makeup outside a TV studio," recalled Carr. "It was during his first Senate campaign, at a hotel fund-raiser, and I was there to do - what else? - a live shot."

"John,'" I asked him, "are you wearing makeup?"

"Why yes," he sniffed. "I have a bit of a cold."

According to Carr, Kerry isn't above throwing his political weight around when it comes to even the most minor annoyances.

"He has so much clout, the city moved a fire hydrant from in front of his wife's Beacon Hill mansion," reports the WRKO talker, before adding yet another wrinkle to Kerry's presidential profile.

"The man is a gigolo's gigolo. How many guys could dump a first wife from a blueblood family worth $300 million, and end up on the rebound with a second wife worth $600 million?"

In between the first and second Mrs. Kerry, Sen. Liveshot apparently managed to keep himself quite busy.

The would-be president's recent admission in The New Yorker that, "I knew how to have a lot of fun, sometimes too much. There were plenty of times when I was disengaged, frivolous, four sheets to the wind," prompted Carr to recall a Liveshot story he says he heard from a Boston nightclub owner who had "a luscious young gal pal."

"One night, they're all getting down, and among the guests is a four-sheets-to-the-wind Liveshot. The girl, who's up on current events, starts tearing into Kerry for his weathervane-like voting record, telling him he needs to make a 'commitment.'

"'Baby,' he finally says, swaying ever so slightly in the breeze, 'I am ready right now to make a commitment. To you.'"

[dennisw]

Re: kerrygear.com
... yada, yada. His nickname in Massachusetts is John "Liveshot" Kerry,
for his quest to be in as many live TV broadcasts as possible.
alt.war.vietnam - Apr 17, 2003 by Lee P. - View Thread (21 articles)

[Mary-Bayou]

That 'mop' is sooo phony-looking. You can tell it's a toupee cos when his eyebrows move his 'mop' doesn't.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" She is in Mommy Lion mode now"

The Theresa has the maid pack JeanBoy's lunch and instructs the chauffer to make sure he eats his veggies. Is this guy Lion whipped or what?? JeanBoy ,by his own admission,had a bizarre and lonely upbringing-like an upscale version of the mope from Hope.Another dysfunctional weakling that mates with a loudmouth,overbearing substitute Mommy.