Howard Dean in a dress (Michelle Malkin)

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20040128.shtml ^ | 1/28/04 | Michelle Malkin

[SeattleNeedsHelp]

It's only a matter of time before we witness another Howard Dean Moment in the Democratic presidential race -- but not, I predict, from any of the Democratic presidential candidates. Skulking in the campaign background is a ticking time bombette with a volatile temper and acid tongue who makes Dean look like Mr. Rogers on Prozac.

She's the wife of front-runner Sen. John Kerry, Teresa Heinz. Formerly known as Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira, the hot-headed widow of the late Pennsylvania GOP Sen. John Heinz is self-aggrandizingly known among her wealthy liberal friends and fellow environmental radicals as "Saint Teresa" (and that's pronounced Teh-RAY-zah, you ninny!).

[pabianice]

I expect Theresa and Hillay to go at one another like battling Gao'uld system lords.

Theresa Heinz-Kerry addresses an audience of Democrat faithful

[EggsAckley]

I'm between a rock and a hard place here.......This is a fabulous article, but I can't find the "excerpt only" list and don't know if any more of this article can be posted on the forum.

Did this really need to be excerpted??

[ride the whirlwind]

Good article.

With the help of media-savvy "handlers," Heinz/Heinz Kerry has toned down the rage -- at least temporarily. She doesn't sulk so much at campaign events and hasn't mocked her husband openly in a while. But it's clear she finds her husband's campaign an exasperating drain on her energies. Which, of course, begs the question: If his own uninspired wife can barely muster up a public showing of respect for candidate Kerry, why should voters?

Why indeed!

[sinanju]

A more honest explanation for why she acts up and lashes out at the little people as often as she does is that she has felt entitled to do so all her life. The daughter of a prosperous Portuguese doctor based in Mozambique, she married into the Heinz ketchup fortune and has lived in a privileged, fawning echo chamber ever since.

Her colonial memsaab upbringing probably has a lot to do with this. Frances Hodgson Burnett's childrens classic A Little Princess is as good an example as any of the psychologically corrosive effect of a childhood spent being waited on hand-and-foot by people who hate your guts.

[3AngelaD]

Sounds like "She Who Must Be Obeyed"

[kjam22]

Interesting...... my wife who does not follow politics closely at all.... watched Dean's speech with me last night. Her initial comment was that Dean looked like a guy with some real issues. Like he could be a child molester or something. That he has some serious skeletons in his closet.

I told her he was just a liberal fruitcake.

[litehaus]

I can sympathise for ANYONE who loses a mate...However Ol' Katrina Van denhuvel(sp) of NATION fame, says Teresa had a tough time raising three kids after her husbands death...I suspect MOST women, given a 1/2 BILLION dollar headstart, could do well.....She "feels our pain?" Get real!

[sinanju]

Funny you should bring up H. Rider Haggard's She. The prolific Henry Rider Haggard (best known for She and King Solomon's Mines) was a minor British colonial officer in South Africa in his youth and helped preside over the British takeover of the Cape Colony. He disliked the afrikaners (for their cruelty to the africans and general smallmindedness, while respecting their courage), but boy, did he hate the portugese! I know of at least two villains named "Perreira" in his ouvre.

[nuconvert]

LoL. I Like Michelle Malkin.

[Stentor]

like battling Gao'uld system lords

LOL. I can't wait until Tessy does the voice.

[sinanju]

Darn! I meant The Secret Garden ("mistress Mary quite contrary").

[Blue Collar Christian]

It's amazing how unorganized the mind of Mrs. Kerry(I love it that she hates that)appears whenever she speaks. It's even more amazing that the numbskulls supporting this party gloss that over. Here in LA it is just plain skerry how people fawn over their nominee(when they take a breath from fawning over the fat slob ficticious documentary queen).

[Badeye]

Tay Raise Ahhh accomplished only one thing last night.

She put a HUGE question mark in the minds of voters.

I don't think thats what Mary Beth Cahill had in mind......

[risk]

"Salome"

[Grampa Dave]

The Pickled Princess, Terrazilla, and her bought boy are both "The Wrong Stuff to represent America"!

[litehaus]

"She"????--You're talking 55 years ago...wadamemory!!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping!

Thanks to the internet, conservative talk radio and Fox News, the top mediot rats can not hide how insane the elite of the Lunatic Left are.

Terrazilla will make it even easier to show how insane the Limo Elite of the Lunatic are.

[sionnsar]

Ha. Just heard local radio talk show (Seattle KVI 570 AM) host Kirby Wilbur remark that "First Lady Teresa" would give him years of material...

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

After sKerry has lost, Will she scream we will
fight this in francis, we will fight in canadid?
YEEEHAAAH!