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.

[LADY J]

Hey Kerry - your wife always looks like an unmade bed.

I'm saying this right out in the open for you to see...Now what are you going to do about it?

[onyx]

He is such a little prick. He is pulling a Hillary Clinton.




OMG!
Now I know you're MAD too!

[JasonC]

Pre-emptive defense. Since presumably he is a traitor and she is a communist... (lol)

[new cruelty]

I read about his moronic comment to latinos earlier. I really can't stand this POS.

[Miss Marple]

I think I am going to have to turn to HGTV just to calm down. I am so sick of the democrats that I am absolutely ready to blow a gasket!!

[HighWheeler]

You better watch what you say, he's not afraid to hit a girl....

[kcvl]

How could you tell?! LOL!

I don't know if I'll make it through this election. lol! I'm getting lots of exercise just trying to stay calm. I am about to wear the dog out walking him.

[Christian4Bush]

"Kerry: 'I've got three words for the Republican Attack Machine, Bring It On!

"Unless of course they are going to mention my voting record, my record in Vietnam, my medals, my wife, my families SUVs,...'"


This is the same person who told the press in Chicago, "We're gonna keep fighting, I'll tell ya, we're just beginning to fight here"...right before his sotto voce complaint about the "most crooked, you know, lying group that I've ever seen." (It's scary)

Uh, correct me if I'm wrong...but in a fight, don't BOTH combatants get to "throw"?

I saw a thread on FR earlier, where presumably FJK told the Dems to lay off of the President about his Guard Service (a dog that didn't hunt in 200), and that HE WOULD NOT GO THERE.

So what does Flipper do, when Charlie Gibson (VRWC member that he is) interviews Kerry, about Kerry's own words, and how they differed from what Kerry told Peter Jennings (another noted VRWC emmisary), he flies off the hinge, blames it on the Republicans, and its President, "who can't even prove that he was in the National Guard."

So when the Dems lie and attack, it's good. However, when the Republicans call him to account on his record and his own statements, it's an attack.

When anyone talks about his medals/ribbons/whatever, he and his surrogates call them "chickenhawks". When people with whom he served come out and say that he is unfit to be CIC, they are immediately branded as VRWC (even though many are...are you sitting doen...DEMOCRATS!)

Someone just said on the radio, when you vote for a candidate for President, you're not just getting a President, you are getting everything that is associated with the President...judges, policy makers, etc. If it matters to you to have people of character CONTINUE to be in the White House, then you won't be so quick to vote for Kerry as a "protest" vote.

Back to my point. John Kerry was the one who decided to run on his record from Vietnam (WTH else was he going to run on?). Therefore, the whole of that time concerning him is fair game. Tereza decided to open her mouth (and her pocketbook) with concern to this campaign, and so she is fair game.

Before you complain, Flipper, let me remind you of what a great President said: "the President must mean what he says." And when you say "BRING IT ON!", as an apparent mockery of the President, don't sit here whining and crying like a little b-atch when he does.

OUT!

[Thumper1960]

I’d give Kerry two thousand dollars (the max) if he could actually manage to swallow three cans of Pabst in ten minutes or less.

I'd give $10,000 to see him swallow those three cans......unopened and without a physician within ten miles to Hiemlich his a**.

[TC Rider]

Exactly

[kcvl]

I have been watching HGTV and QVC as much as possible just to STOP watching politics. But I keep peeking at the news because I'm so nosy.

[onyx]

I don't know if I'll make it through this election. lol!




We have to make it.
We can't vote when we're dead like the democrats do.

[prophetic]

waaaahhhhh!!!!

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

SCAAAAAAAAARY Kerry!!!!

[Publius6961]

"They're going to have to go through me."

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Tayreesa wears tennis shoes!
Tayreesa is so ugly, that when she was born the doctor slapped her mother!
Tayreesa is lucky to have inherited millions because she has to tape steaks to her face to have her dog lick her.

Is that enough superhero?
You can come and get me when you're ready.
What a doofus! He must have been talking to Al Bore about the alpha dog thing...

[LADY J]

"You better watch what you say, he's not afraid to hit a girl...."

LOL - Do I look like I'm shaking in my boots? I can handle the ghoul.

[I'm ALL Right!]

Can we see that logo with Kerry hair?

[Reactionary]

"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."

I guess Flipper's concerned about those pesky tax returns.

[TheBattman]

If a candidate's spouse chooses to enter the political fray by opening her mouth and spouting her vomit, then she is fair game.

Isn't that why many politician's wives/spouses don't do much more than a pleasant word or two about their spouse...

Attack your husband's opponent, you are welcoming retaliation.

[cardinal4]

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."

Teresa is ugly, nyah, nyah, nyah....!