Regards, Ivan
Posted on 09/25/2004 4:41:28 PM PDT by MadIvan
THE jury was out for a while, but Teresa Heinz Kerry has been declared a resounding liability by women.
In a scathing attack, the feminist writer Naomi Wolf claims the exotic ketchup heiress is having an emasculating effect on John Kerry, her second husband. “Listen to what the Republicans are hitting Kerry with: Indecisive. Effete. French. They are all but calling this tall, accomplished war hero gay,” she writes in New York magazine.
* Wolf, who advised Al Gore on capturing the women’s vote in 2000, blames Heinz Kerry for making the charge stick. “Let’s start with ‘Heinz’. There is no genteel way to put it — she is publicly, subliminally cuckolding Kerry with the power of another man — a dead Republican man at that.”
Heinz Kerry’s first husband, John Heinz III, was a senator whom she has called “the love of my life”. He died in a plane crash in 1991, bequeathing his fortune to his widow.
“Her first husband was (as she herself is now) vastly more wealthy than her second husband,” Wolf points out. “Throw into all of this her penchant for black, a colour that no woman wears in the heartland, and you have a recipe for just what Kerry is struggling with now.”
Democrats are alarmed that Kerry has lost the advantage he enjoyed among women until recently. In the latest Fox News poll, Bush enjoys a two-point lead among women.
That narrow gap represents a potentially costly reversal in the Democrats’ fortunes. In the 2000 election, Gore won 54% of the women’s vote compared with Bush’s 43% and still failed to win the White House.
Wolf memorably advised the Democrat candidate to act like an alpha male. In her current critique she returns to the theme, arguing that “presidents are archetypes of male potency”.
At the Democrat convention, she writes, “Teresa Heinz Kerry’s speech, which all but ignored her husband, did more to emasculate him than the opposition ever could.” In contrast, Laura Bush’s depiction of her husband “wrestling” with issues of war and peace enhanced the president’s potency.
Heinz Kerry has been struggling to gain the affections of the public ever since she told a reporter to “shove it”. When an Arizona newspaper put it to her last week that the state was slipping from her husband’s reach, she replied: “Who cares?” She also said she “wouldn’t be surprised” if Osama Bin Laden were captured next month, joining the conspiracy mongers who believe the president is harbouring Al-Qaeda’s leader and will spring an “October surprise”. There was no mention that his capture would be a great coup for America.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
Teresa Heinz
September 15, 2004
That's the first LIE right there! He is NOT a war hero!
Kerry's Gay!
Let me understand this. Feminazi Namoi is blaming teeRAYzah for the Gigalo? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
He sure had trouble keeping his hands off Edwards.
Go, you crazy old hag, go!
Oh dear will Kerry will be wearing brown now??
"Heinz alarms Democrats"
She gets my spidey sense tinglin too.
Keep it up Ta-RAY-za!
Heh-heh...
Since when are gay men indecisive, flip flopping, charmless bores? As far as I can tell, Kerry and his wife are lost in another generation...she thinks women just got the right to vote and he can't recall a thing about his record since Viet Nam.
Well, if the slipper fits...
Hey, now, we HAVE been calling him gay. Just one look at him and Edwards tells it all. As for Indecisive Effete, and French, we've been calling him that without Tereza. She's just comedy relief.
Right after the rat convention I suddenly realized that W was going to win and began to relax a bit.
The breakthrough came when I was watching one of Tereza's outrageous performances on tv and suddenly realized there was no way the American people would make this absure caricature of a woman our first lady.
She's the best asset in W's arsenal right now.
Don't forget the sweaters.
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