Teresa Heinz Kerry
Posted on 07/27/2004 3:33:54 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Teresa Heinz Kerry |
A day after Teresa Heinz Kerry told a hometown reporter to "shove it," some equally testy words from 29 years ago came back to haunt the would-be first lady.
The Boston Herald today published excerpts from a 1975 book about political wives in which she ripped the Democratic Party generally and the senior senator from Massachusetts – Ted Kennedy – specifically.
In the book, "The Power Lovers: An Intimiate Look at Politicians and Their Marriages," she decried the Democratic party's "putrid" politics and called Kennedy, with whom she will share the stage tonight a "perfect bastard."
"I know some couples who stay together only for politics,'' Heinz Kerry said at the time. "If Ted Kennedy holds on to that marriage (to ex-wife Joan) just for the Catholic vote, as some people say he does, then I think he's a perfect bastard.''
Heinz Kerry, then married to Republican Sen. H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania, said she "didn't trust'' President Richard M. Nixon but added, "Ted Kennedy I don't trust either.''
In a speech yesterday to her home-state delegates to the Democratic National Convention calling for the restoration of a more civil tone in American politics, she used the term "un-American" to describe the sometimes harsh rhetoric used.
Minutes later, when a journalist from a Pittsburgh paper asked her what she meant by the term "un-American," John Kerry's wife turned angry.
"I didn't say that," she said. "You're putting words in my mouth. I didn't say that."
Unfortunately for Mrs. Kerry, who sometimes goes by Mrs. Heinz, she did say it – very clearly in the speech recorded on videotape.
"We need to turn back some of the creeping, un-Pennsylvanian – and sometimes un-American – traits that are coming into some of our politics," she told her fellow Pennsylvanians at a reception at the Massachusetts Statehouse.
Minutes later, Colin McNickle, the editorial page editor of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, questioned her on exactly what she meant by the term "un-American." This confrontation, too, was videotaped by WTAE Channel 4 Action News in Pittsburgh.
Repeatedly she insists to McNickle that she did not use the term "un-American." McNickle calmly asks her to explain what she did say, but Mrs. Kerry refused – at one point telling the journalist to go listen to the tape.
After conferring with Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and others, Kerry then returned to confront McNickle.
"Are you from the Tribune-Review?" she asked.
"Yes," replies McNickle.
"I thought so," she said. "You said something I didn't say. Now shove it."
LOL
Kewl graphic!
Teresa Hienz is being painted as more and more of an unstable nut-job. The seed is being planted that she has series self-control problems, a la Howard Dean.
By the end of the week, she will have her YEEEAAAAGH! moment. It will be something beautiful to see.
You wonder who could set up such an elegant take-down. Well, who did it last time, to Dean? There are only so many pages in the Clinton play-book. When something works once, they will do it again, at the earliest opportunity.
Bingo.
Theresa is exactly what she hates,she is married to a man for the power, she stays with him for the power, she funds the Tides foundation for the power, she and George Soros are a perfect pair they are both in it for the power. Kerry doesnt have a mind of his own, he ius torn between Fat Ted telling him what to do on one side and Theresa telling him what to do on the other. Flip and Flop.
I think John Kerry is manipulative gold-digger, otherwise Teresa wouldn't have latched on to him so quickly. I don't think Teresa is telling him what to do, I think it's the other way around. With her lose canon ability, one would have thought by now she would have told Kerry to "shove it", after he decided to mortgage one of their homes just to pay off his presidential wannabe bills.
You are looking at the mortgaging of a home like you are one of us, someone who would call a home mortgage a serious thing. Theresa isnt one of us, She has 5 homes, she has half a billion dollar in funds, the Home mortgage was nothing to her it was simply a roundabout way of lending her husband money that would and should have been illegal. It wasnt like the home was ever in jeopardy, Like ours would have been. Why tell him to shove it over a home mortgage that was no more than pocket change to Theresa.
This woman is a wack job to be sure!
Pennsylvania Republicans remember Mrs. Heinz. The Democrat Party did not do homework on this woman. She is a liability to John Kerry. We all liked John Heinz. He was a good and decent man. His wife was prone to make remarks that were a bit strange. She disliked Democrats and thought little of their trashy party. Now she is in the midst of the Larry Flynts, Al Frankens and filthy mouthed Whoopie Goldbergs? I am betting she will take time to herself and tell this campaign to "shove it" because she absolutely hates being told what to do by peons. Who are the peons? Democrat operatives, Secret Service and campaign
directors. Mrs. H. Kerry is 65 years old. She needs this hassle like she needs another money sucking husband. We have not seen the last of her imperious behavior.
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