Coulter Lambastes Kerry on Finances

NewsMax.com ^ | 1/29/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Conservative provocateur Ann Coulter had Democratic strategist Kiki McClean fuming Wednesday night after she rolled one of her patented rhetorical hand grenades right into the Democratic Party's victory tent.

"If we are going on personal experience then John Kerry can't really speak to the middle class tax cut in as much as he is a kept man," Coulter told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" as McClean looked on.

"He lives off the money made by other men, and left to their daughters or wives," she explained. "He's a gigolo and a cad. His income comes from pursuing lonely rich women."

Stunned by the allegations, a sputtering McClean shot back, "You know, Ann, even for you that's going a little bit far. . . That's a really nasty personal attack."

To which Coulter replied, "What's wrong about my facts?"

Moments later, when Alan Colmes complained that Coulter's description of Kerry's finances was "mean," she responded, "Nobody has contested me on the facts, I notice."

Kerry married ketchup heiress Teresa Heinz, who is said to be worth over a half billion dollars, after divorcing wealthy socialite Julia Thorne, whose family is reportedly worth $200 million.

[Dave Elias]

What worries me that someone will bring up her anorexia in retaliation. I'm not sure we need such a tit for tat battle of words creating a smokescreen for the Demorats to hide their incompetence behind. Let's keep to the real issues.

[.cnI redruM]

Go Ann! Sheer The Poodle_Boy!

[Judith Anne]

I saw him. He did look asymmetrical and not well.

[.cnI redruM]

Patrician my Arse! Respectable Roman gentlemen had to run an entire manor and feed about 50 deadbeats as part of the old Roman Republic system of noblesse oblige.

[KQQL]

Ann Coulter: Kerry is "Just a Gigolo"

[Dr. Eckleburg]

News-readers refer to Kerry as blue-blooded by way of his middle name.

Just how close is Kerry to Forbes money?

[GeronL]

You just keep lumping them out huh??

Can't get over those lumps?

[GeronL]

I have no idea..

[RLK]

I don't recall George W. Bush just laying around being supported by his parents. He went to college; got an MBA; owned several businesses; owned a baseball team; Then he went into politics.

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Bush owned his first business, which went under. After that, he never owned anything. He was moved into a series of cushy figurehead positions reqyiring no personal investment other than the family name. The athletic team was greatly financed through a political deal in which the city/state confiscated the land for it. Out of an original investment of $15,000 in his first faltering business, Bush came out with tens of millions of dollars for practical purposes as gifts in return for use of the Bush name.

[RLK]

Just how close is Kerry to Forbes money?

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I have no idea. I only know he's basically unemployable by talen and temperament for anything but bullcrap politics and has access to millions while living in style.

[StriperSniper]

Dang! Even missed the rerun! :(

[Tamzee]

I saw this... a real hoot :-)

[highlander_UW]

OMG, he really was a gigolo!

Sort of turns your stomach, don't it?

[Cowboy Bob]

Rush needs to play "Just a Gigolo" by David Lee Roth every time he talks about Kerry.

[goldstategop]

Correction to Carl Limbacher's Memo: Ann Coulter tore into Jean F. Cheri cause he was a "kept man" - that is a man who lived off a woman. Where would he be today without all those rich woman doting after him like a little boy? Think about it.

[CyberAnt]

"a series of cushy figurehead positions"

And .. those were ..??

You're such a repository of information. Do you work for a living .. or just dig up dirt on political figures you don't like.

[NYpeanut]

Kerry's admirers are the same types that admire "feminist" hillary, a woman who owes her power to her tolerance of her husband's infidelity.

Gigolo and doormat, a perfect ticket for dems.

[samtheman]

But he really cares about poor people. He's going to "take back America" for them.

[Eighth Square]

My ever increasing hatred for 'demo' political dialog is instantly intensified with the very mention of Ann Coulter's name. She is intelligent, current, sharp as a whip and above all, absolutely 'delicious'!! anyone read her take on 'Corporal' Clark?

[blanknoone]

Does anyone know the timing sequence of his tricks? Did he divorce rich lonely woman #1 FOR wealthier rich lonely woman #2? And was the first divorce his choice, hers, or mutual?

I don't want to make unfounded judgements about his second wife, but she was in a long line of white african colonial masters. I don't know, nor really care, about her personal history, and she should not be judged based on her ancestors, but at least from a symbolism perspective, how will African Americans react to that? And she is old enough that she grew up before the independence movements...she was there when it was bad. Will African Americans vote to put a colonial 'exploiter' in as First Lady? Any American who supports reparations would have to much more directly oppose her, at least they would IF they were consistent.