Kerry Warns Opponents Not to Attack His Wife

AP via Yahoo! ^ | May 11, 2004 | AP

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

LOUISVILLE, KY. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry warned his political opponents on Monday against attacking his outspoken wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, saying, "They're going to have to go through me."

The Massachusetts senator also sought to dispel the notion he was aloof, asking one television interviewer: "Have you had a beer with me yet? I like to have fun as much as the next person, and go out and hack around and have a good time."

Worth an estimated $500 million, born in Mozambique and fluent in five languages, Mrs. Kerry can be controversial and blunt, disclosing her Botox injections, her prenuptial agreement with Kerry and the fact he was in the bathroom when he got word of his wins in Iowa and New Hampshire.

"If they want to attack her, they're going to have to go through me. I'll be the first to defend anything she does. ... She doesn't pull her punches," Kerry said in one television interview when asked if Republicans were targeting his wife.

"I think that they're foolhardy to do it, personally, because I think that she's so down to earth and so straightforward," Kerry said. "I think people who meet her love her."

Mrs. Kerry has been criticized for her outspokenness and candor, and some Republican commentators have also called on her to release her tax returns.

While she is wealthy from her marriage to former Republican Sen. John Heinz, the heir to the Pittsburgh ketchup empire, she said Sen. Kerry was not. She can only contribute the same $2,000 to his campaign everyone else can.

Kerry was able, however, to mortgage the couple's townhouse in Boston to take out a $6.4 million loan to keep his campaign afloat.

[spokeshave]

"He threw his medals over the fence like a girl."

I think that's a "tossed his ribbons over the fence like a girlyman"

[PhilDragoo]

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

If his wife speaks out in public, she is subject to the same criticism as anyone else! Whadda stoopid move on Kerry's part. They're just asking for it. "Bring it on!" as John F-ing Kerry says.

[highlander_UW]

When his wife attacks Bush and Cheney and calls them unpatriotic I CAN ATTACK HER ANY TIME I PLEASE! If she gets to decide who can comment on her husband's military service ONLY if they also served, I can make the rules about ONLY people who are born in this country getting to make comments about it.

I've read about her handing out campaign buttons saying...Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft...Asses of evil.

She's attacking the president, she's fair game back.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" "Someone tell me what "hack around" means. Is that a golfing thing?"
I have no clue. "

"Hack around " is an archaic term from the late 60s and early 70s. It was generally used by teen age boys to describe goofing around.
Kerry seems to be stuck in some kind of very weird time machine.
He just can't get out of the 60s.
Pretty soon, he's going to show up wearing bell bottoms with a macrame belt and psychedelic shirts.
And he will describe himself as " groovy."

[Cincinna]

This is chapter and verse out of the Clinton handbook. Bill Clinton pulled the same thing on Jerry Brown in the primaries in '92....PS It worked!

[onyx]

LOL!

[bjcintennessee]

"If they want to attack her, they're going to have to go through me.

Works for me.

[Conservative4Ever]

Kerry is such a whiny baby.

Red

[devolve]

Another winner!

[NYCVirago]

This is almost as stilted as Nixon's famous attempt to make small talk: "So, did you do any fornicating this weekend?"

Good point. Kerry's beer comment reminds me of some legendary story about Sargeant Shriver going to a working-man's bar during the 1972 campaign and ordering a Courvoisier (this was before that drink became the rapper's drink of choice, of course.)

[jla]

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Kerry Warns Opponents Not to Attack His Wife

Kinda reminds me of the Rodney Dangerdfield line about coming home and finding his best friend in bed with his wife, "Al, I gotta, but you?" Don't worry, John, she's safe.

[evad]

Which side?
Hey, dave, we're talking about John F'n Kerry, here. He was on both sides, of course.

Heh heh..of course :)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Is John Kerry having an Edmund Muskie moment?

No, Muskie was sincere.

[ZULU]

WHAT A HERO!!!

His intellectually challlenged, golddigger wife makes idiotic political statements about Bush, bankrolls extreme left-wing causes and helps launder cash through her many
"foundations" to her traitor husband and nobody is supposed to critize her??

This guy is on another planet.

[macrahanish #1]

You should make this the basis for a documentary. It is more factual than "Bowling for Columbine."

[metesky]

Kerry Warns Opponents Not to Attack His Wife

Hey John, do I look like a necrophiliac to you?

[OpusatFR]

"The Massachusetts senator also sought to dispel the notion he was aloof, asking one television interviewer: "Have you had a beer with me yet? I like to have fun as much as the next person, and go out and hack around and have a good time."

I suppose this passes for an attempt to relate to Joe Sixpack. When does he scratch his rear and belch?

How condescending of him...

[MeekOneGOP]

LOUISVILLE, KY. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry warned his political opponents on Monday against attacking his outspoken wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, saying, "They're going to have to go through me."