The mountain of Dorian Kerry?
Posted on 10/20/2004 6:50:38 PM PDT by NCjim
Senator John Kerry's wife reinforced her reputation as a political loose cannon yesterday when she said President George W Bush's wife, Laura, had never had a real job.
Teresa Heinz Kerry appeared not only to make the politically hazardous move of disdaining the role of a stay-at-home mother, but also to forget that Mrs Bush was a teacher and librarian.
Her unguarded remark in the USA Today newspaper risks infuriating suburban housewives, the "swing" constituency her husband has spent the past fortnight wooing from Mr Bush.
Asked how she would be different from Mrs Bush, she said: "I don't know that she's ever had a real job. Her experience and validation come from important things, but different things."
To make the slightest of side swipes at Mrs Bush is hugely risky as she is wildly popular in America, with her appeal spanning party lines. Karen Hughes, Mr Bush's image maker, said: "Teaching is a real job. Working as a librarian is a real job. Staying at home and rearing a family is a real job."
In a statement last night Mrs Heinz Kerry said she honoured and appreciated Mrs Bush's service as First Lady and was "sincerely sorry" she had not remembered her "important work in the past".
Mrs Heinz Kerry is one of the wealthiest women in America. Her first husband, who died in a plane crash more than a decade ago, was the Republican senator John Heinz, the heir to the beans fortune.
She has long been known for her outspoken ways, to the delight of the grassroots, but to the dismay of the party machine.
With polls flickering back and forth yesterday, President George W Bush and Senator John Kerry rampaged across the same small patch of the heartland yesterday, seemingly trying to outdo each other in alarming voters.
Taking advantage of the sudden onset of wintry weather and a rash of colds, the Democrat seized on the shortage of flu vaccines to accuse Mr Bush of failing to protect the electorate from either war or disease.
"If you can't get flu vaccines to Americans, how are you going to protect them against bio-terrorism?" Mr Kerry asked in an interview with National Public Radio.
Mr Bush accused Mr Kerry of "old-style scare tactics".
But the most chilling sound-bite was from Vice-President Dick Cheney, who warned a rally in Ohio, the "Ground Zero" of the election, that terrorists could bomb an American town with a nuclear device, and suggested that Mr Kerry was not the man to counter such an attack.
The Democrats accused him of waging the politics of fear before promptly unleashing their advertisements and attacks which suggested that Mr Bush's leadership has made America more vulnerable, not safer.
In Iowa, a state Mr Bush narrowly lost in 2000, Mr Kerry made a direct appeal to the emotions of America's women, a normally reliable Democrat constituency which he has had difficulties wooing in the face of Mr Bush's emotive campaigning style and fears over terrorism.
"No American mother should have to lie awake at night worrying whether her children will be safe at school the next day," he said.
Simultaneously Mr Bush was addressing a rally 80 miles away, in Iowa, where polls show the candidates neck-and-neck at 47 per cent.
In the American media there was a unanimous conclusion about the spate of scaremongering: Halloween has come 10 days early.
The mountain of Dorian Kerry?
You have to look at all the good the UN has accomplished in the past 60 years. Then divide by a million or so and that's Teresa's lifetime of achievement.
and that's why my vote will go to Bush.
in my book, he has a 100% 'no terrorist attack on American soil' since 9/11.
can't do better 100%...no matter how the MSM spins it.
it ain't a perfect system....and some day an attack will come....but I'd still feel safer with Bush than sKerry.
Loose Cannon on deck abandon ship!!
Where the fu@%$k are the blue pills??
Wonder how many languages she may have mistranslated into "shove it". She may be the reason so many countries are at odds with each other!
Fan-FReepin-tastic.
Really? Hmm. Would think ABC would know better than to allow that tidbit of news to slip by to reach the female segment of the population.
Edwards and his wife, Kerry and his daughter, Kerry's campaign manager-all have attacked Mary Cheney.
T. is now targeting the First Lady and taking a swipe at teachers and stay at home moms.
Kerry & Edwards are attacking Cheney because he is at high risk and needs a flu shot.
They attack Bush personally everyday.
How much longer before they start hitting the Twins again? How about the President's parents? Barney?
SOmeone needs to notify the NEA that Mrs. HK doesn't consider their profession a "real job"!
No, no, no, don't muzzle the potty-mouthed, mentally-ill, gold-digging, prozac-gulping, lying, idiot, scumbag b-i-t-c-h! She's doing damage every time she opens her piehole. We love it! Talk away, ketchup skank!
Indeed. For such a rich woman, Teresa has very little class.
-Regards, T.
This woman is a bonafide nut case.
Michael Savage just started this hour of his radio show by saying, "John Kerry is a clear and present danger to the survival of America and his wife is crazy"
Caller said she sounds like she is on hard drugs and Michael said "Bingo! There is something really wrong with this woman."
Yet another reason to dump the U.N.
I was born in New Hampshire, and it gives me the willies to see the horsefaced leftist compared to the OLd Man of the Mountain.
Hopefully Kerry will collapse just like the mountain did.
I suspect drugs and/or alcohol are involved.
Do I have evidence? Only her behavior, but I believe it would answer many questions as to her antics.
When I heard Sean Hannity talk about Mrs. sKerry's disdainful remarks towards Laura Bush, the first word that came to mind was 'Skank.' These bozos will stop at nothing.
-Regards, T.
lololol...
>>As hard as it is to listen to, I honestly think we benefit every time they open their mouths.
I've been saying for a while, that Karl Rove's greatest failure has been his inability to have gotten Teresa a 1/2-hour daily television program.
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