The Teresa We Always Suspected

NRO The Kerry Spot ^ | 11/04/04 | Jim Geraghty

[gubamyster]

Coming in Newsweek soon:

Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, presented a host of behind-the-scenes drama for Kerry. Early on, the campaign staff regarded Teresa as something of a hypochondriac, and she canceled three trips in October at the last minute, usually for what was described to aides as a "nonspecific malady." Kerry's first campaign manager, James Jordan, had little patience for her strong opinions, sending emails trashing the candidate's wife...which inevitably reached his rivals within the campaign, including Bob Shrum (an old Teresa friend) and helped seal Jordan's eventual dismissal.

One of the reasons I began to suspect Bush would win in the final days before the campaign was wondering how America would react to Teresa Heinz-Kerry as First Lady. There really has been no woman even remotely like Teresa in the White House.

[Posted 11/04 04:33 PM]

[atomicpossum]

Oh, sure. Mary Todd Lincoln was nuts, too, wasn't she?

[Prime Choice]

Early on, the campaign staff regarded Teresa as something of a hypochondriac, and she canceled three trips in October at the last minute, usually for what was described to aides as a "nonspecific malady."

Translation: the bitch was hung over.

[vox_freedom]

You are correct. We've never had a gypsy woman as 1st Lady.

[FlJoePa]

"...nonspecific malady..."

Otherwise known as the "Gin Flu"

[CWOJackson]

"There really has been no woman even remotely like Teresa in the White House."

Yes there was: Millie.

[Michael Goldsberry]

ummm... how about our previous First "Lady"?

[astonberry]

How much did she really support her husband's bid for the white house?

[Prime Choice]

Oh, sure. Mary Todd Lincoln was nuts, too, wasn't she?

Being nuts is one thing. Being a lush is another.

Judging from what I saw of Tah-RAY-Zah and her gin-soaked raisin antics, I'd say she's a full-blown alcoholic.

[marty60]

nonspecific malady. HUMMMM...code word for HANGOVER

[Shortwave]

I wonder which "malady" she had?

[woofie]

When does she go to Betty Ford's?

[codyjacksmom]

Oh what a nightmare just imagining her as first lady. Laura is such a class act...it would have been terrible to replace her with such trash.

[cbkaty]

Early on, the campaign staff regarded Teresa as something of a hypochondriac, and she canceled three trips in October at the last minute, usually for what was described to aides as a "nonspecific malady." Translation: the bitch was hung over.

Actually...her physician refused the refill request!

[Fiddlstix]

I thought the idea was to eat the raisins after nine days not drink gin for nine days and then eat the raisins.

[Hildy]

Hillary Clinton was bad in a very different way. Hillary always was politically calculating. She saw everthing through a political prism. Theresa sees everything through a Vodka bottle. She's just plain nuts. Oh wait, she rich, so she's just plain ECCENTRIC!

[Prime Choice]

Oh what a nightmare just imagining her as first lady. Laura is such a class act...it would have been terrible to replace her with such trash.

True. Like I've been saying; Laura Bush is like everyone's sweetheart. Teresa Heinz-Kerry is like everyone's mother-in-law.

[wimpycat]

I spent the last few days before the election praying for the strength to accept the results if they didn't go the way I wanted, to be a good sport, and all that. I tried to picture a Kerry win, a Kerry inauguration, a Kerry presidency. I really didn't think Kerry would win, but I wanted be ready in case I was disappointed. But whenever I tried to picture Teresa as first lady, it just would...not...compute. My mind couldn't grasp the concept. As Christopher Hitchens said, she's "ghastly".

[bikepacker67]

Mary Todd Lincoln was nuts, too, wasn't she

Yup... rumor has it, Ol' Abe ducked a few ashtrays in his time - and that's hard to do at 6'4"!

[Prime Choice]

Translation: the bitch was hung over.

Actually...her physician refused the refill request!

That was no "physician." That was a bartender.