More Kerry Car Troubles: 'Purple Heart 3' Vanity Plate, Outsourced SUV

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[Dr Snide]

Friday, Apr. 30, 2004 11:19 AM EDT More Kerry Car Troubles: 'Purple Heart 3' Vanity Plate, Outsourced SUV

Unlike most combat vets, Sen. John Kerry has never been shy about bragging on his wartime experience. But even we were surprised to hear that his 1985 Dodge is plastered with vanity plates that read "Purple Heart 3."

The Boston Herald's Howie Carr has done some research into the Kerry family's fleet of vehicles, and has turned up some interesting details.

Apart from the Purple Heart plates, Carr has discovered that Kerry's wife Teresa is hiding another family SUV at their estate on Nantucket, in addition to the Chevy Surburban the Heinz Kerrys keep at their Idaho mansion.

And for this one, the would-be first family decided to outsource.

The plates on the British-made 1997 Land Rover Defender driven by the woman who wants to be America's next first lady read MOZMBQ - a reminder of the country Heinz Kerry recently lamented she wished she'd never left.

"I can't believe my family left Africa and came to this country," she griped to the New York Post's Cindy Adams two weeks ago. "I can't believe I ever even married an American."

The plates on Teresa's 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee read HZ 57, a reference to the company whose management has spent the last few months sending out letters to the media insisting it has nothing to do with her.

And it turns out there's another outsourced car in the Kerry family's vehicular portfolio. The stepson of the Democrat's man-of-the-people candidate tools around in a nifty 2002 Porsche 911.

[Dr Snide]

The man is fast becoming a living Saturday Night Live skit.

[annyokie]

I wouldn't be surprised if he has a total meltdown during the debates------if he makes it that far.

[ErnBatavia]

I remember seeing one in West Los Angeles a few years ago, and being surprised it made it past the censors:

F (space, space, space) OFF

Thinking back, that one could have also been Kerry's were he a Kalifornian...

[steveegg]

The plates on the British-made 1997 Land Rover Defender driven by the woman who wants to be America's next first lady read MOZMBQ - a reminder of the country Heinz Kerry recently lamented she wished she'd never left.

"I can't believe my family left Africa and came to this country," she griped to the New York Post's Cindy Adams two weeks ago. "I can't believe I ever even married an American."

Could it have been fear of what is now happening in neighboring Zimbabwe?

[Letitring]

She isn't the only one who wishes she'd never come to America. :)

[Fixit]

Don't forget, Kerry's current car, a Chrysler 300M, is assembled in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

http://scoop.daimlerchrysler.com/product_300M.shtml

[thoughtomator]

It almost makes you wonder if he's getting paid off by the GOP - he's more unreliable than a UN accountant!

[WinOne4TheGipper]

VT4DBY04

[annyokie]

I once sold a car to a gynocoligist whose vanity plate said "BOXDOC." Stupid folk at the DMV in California.

[Letitring]

Edited to add: I wish she hadn't come to America!

[BigBobber]

Not that I doubt NewMax, but I would be surprised to see a US vanity plate with this many letters and spaces: "Purple Heart 3."

[Congressman Billybob]

Decades ago, I dated a woman whose father worked for Bethlehem Steel. She had a British sports car that she liked very much. However, when her father was transferred to the home office in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, he told her that she had to sell her car and buy an American-made one.

My understanding was that the company did not insist on that. It was just that all top executives of an American steel firm understood that it was a wrong symbol to be driving foreign steel around the town. If such a point was simply obvious to hundreds of men and women who merely worked for an American company concerned about imports, how can someone who is running for President of the United States possibly miss the same point?

Yep, you are right. He IS becoming a "living Saturday Night skit."

Congressman Billybob

Click here, then click the blue CFR button, to join the anti-CFR effort (or visit the "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob" thread). Please do it now.

[OhMike]

Sheesh! You know, actually I think there's a difference between vanity and pathology. Does anyone else think it's truly sick--to the point of being scary--that Kerry has built this whole persona for himself based on being a bogus war hero and having been "wounded" in 'Nam?

For crying out loud, he spent four measly months in alleged combat (some of that time was spent water skiing with his swift boat). The three purple hearts he brags about to this day didn't even get him a day off from work.

The man is a pathetic joke--and a frighteningly-disturbed individual. Norman Bates is saner than Kerry. -OhMike

[Arrowhead1952]

"I can't believe my family left Africa and came to this country," she griped to the New York Post's Cindy Adams two weeks ago. "I can't believe I ever even married an American."

John F'ing Kerry is a frenchman, Ms Te RAY sa.

[Alberta's Child]

You're right. Either the license plate has a bracket that says "Purple Heart 3" on it, or the plate actually reads something like PRPL-HRT3.

[Snerfling]

The best vanity plate I ever saw was on a 5.0 Mustang owned by a gay neighbor of mine in LA. He happened to be an ex-Jehova's Witness and had become somewhat acclaimed in the anti-cult movement.

His plate read "CLT BSTR". He couldn't figure out why guys would pull up next to him and give hime a thumbs up, or why chicks would give him dirty looks.

Someone finally had to pull him aside and explain how normal non-gay people interpreted the plate. Did he change it? Heck no; he just got a plate frame that said "Cults kill".

[cvq3842]

Absolutely! This is more outrageous, ridiculous, downright strange and danming than any satire.

Kerry's only hope is the "mainstream" media, which will cover for him as much as possible. But if he reaches a "critical mass" of the stink of failure soon enough, the same media will turn on him so viciously that it will make even his head spin.

The Democrats are desperate nd will go to great lengths to win. I hope I'm wrong, but I am very worried that we will see really vicious and sleazy tactics deployed, even more than we have.

New tone in Washington? Puh-leeze! I hope Bush & co. are savvy enough to realize what they're up against. I don't need for them to tell ME (and the public) about it - I just need for them to know it's there and ACT accordingly.

God help us.

:)

[ctdonath2]

Nope. There are some states (like NY) that do have specialty license plates that feature whole spelled-out phrases. These labels are printed in a different font & size ("Purple Heart" with picture in about 4 square inches), with the unique identifier (3 in this example) stamped in the usual size & shape.

Here's NY's Purple Heart plate:

[vandykelastone]

Ain't it the truth! I would think that even a dimocrat could notice what he is. He just defies belief. Every day there is another outrage and it is never reported in the alphabet soup media. And if I hear the I-Man refer to Kerry as "my man" again! Is he looking for ratings or what?

[Dr Snide]

Actually it originally comes from the Boston Herald. I tried to find the original article but apparently you have to pay to access the author's aritcles and I did really want to do that. But you are right it would have to be some sort of abbreviation.