Too, Too Teresa (Theresa Heinz Gone Wild)

National Journal ^ | 5/23/03 | William Powers

[MEG33]

The Heinz -Kerrys are a yawn to me.Guess I'm not hip?!

[gcruse]

I think I like this gal. There aren't enough Martha Mithcells in the world.

[gcruse]

Agh. Martha Mitchell.

[Russell Scott]

A woman with a ton of money and an ounce of intelligence.

[DeFault User]

There aren't enough Martha Mithcells in the world.

I hadn't thought of Martha Mitchell in one helluva long time, but you're right, she's a psychological sister of Teresa.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

She's great, in the same way Sharpton is great. In other words...great for US, really REALLY bad for them. She's louder than Hilary, and Hilary has terrible numbers in her own constituency. Hilary never did well in mainstream America. And Teresa will also do very poorly. '

The left interprets this as being anti-female, but the truth is that we're not electing Heinz. We're seeing if we want to elect Heinz to a venerated position. If SHE wants to talk about herself then SHE should run. Else...be quiet because you're not in the public eye HE is!

[whereasandsoforth]

Sounds like there is a screw loose in that pole holding up the red flag.

[Dianna]

In other words...great for US, really REALLY bad for them.

Depends upon the mood of the 'merican pipple. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised to see people vote for Kerry just so his wife could be their comic relief. That may be a little too frivolous for the current times.

[MEG33]

Thankfully she's their eccentric. I don't understand a woman who keeps her dead husband's name when she remarries or a man who would accept it.For identity I can see the new hyphenated version.

[DeFault User]

I don't understand a woman who keeps her dead husband's name when she remarries or a man who would accept it.

Oh, I don't know....my wife could use her maiden name and call me whatever she wants....for $600 million.

[Mo1]

Oh Gee, they sound like such a happy couple so much in love

So when are they going to tell us all those stories about family values?

[PianoMan]

I thought from the title of the thread she was in one of those "Girls Gone Wild" videos... hmmm....

[MEG33]

You have a point!Of course she wasn't using her maiden name but that of her deceased husband.

[Ruth A.]

The fantastically rich, wildly candid wife of Sen. John Kerry is the only compelling figure so far in a presidential race that otherwise threatens to be devoid of color, drama, and really chewable stories.

This is part of the reason why I like her.

I remember everyone (everyone, meaning Freepers--see, I just used everyone the way she did referring to prenups) going wild when they thought Hillery was hiding the fact that she had plastic surgery. T. Heinz has stuff done because she wants it and she doesn't expect people to think she simply looks great. I like that honesty.

You would think her current husband would learn to not lie in front of her. Can see a real plus side for the voters in this.

Political people act like they are stepping on eggs all the time and this gal doesn't. Good for her.

[sine_nomine]

The man who marries for money earns every penny of it. Kerry is proof of that.

[Mo1]

You have a point!Of course she wasn't using her maiden name but that of her deceased husband.

My ex-sister inlaw continued to keep her married name even after the divorce .. mainly because the kids shared the same name

So I don't really question her keeping the name .. but I will question why she has a problem calling Kerry her husband ..

[southernnorthcarolina]

Far from being "refreshingly candid" as some seem to be convinced of, this broad is phony to the core, including her marriage of convenience to the much younger Senator. Her "candid" remarks are calculatedly controversial. Not a word of it, in my judgment, was unrehearsed, and yet the Washpost bought into the staged argument between this bizarre and ambitious couple.

I'll repeat here what I said on another thread a couple of weeks ago on much the same subject...

Teresa Simões-Ferreira Heinz Kerry would certainly be a very different First Lady, in the unlikely event it came to that. For one thing, she'd be unique in having been born in Africa. Of Portuguese descent, she was born in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique. It might be interesting to learn whether her family was part of the colonialist power structure which -- according to current political correctness -- conquered and oppressed the black natives.

What brought her to Pennsylvania, I wonder -- and how did she become acquainted with the ketchup scion? I would assume she was a part of the white ruling class in the African colony (which has since, after ridding itself of European influences, become Marxist); did she become a Pennsylvania debutante after fleeing Mozambique, or what?

One newspaper article put her age at 64, or five years Kerry's senior. I suspect she might be older still, and that birth records from colonial-era Mozambique might be conveniently impossible to verify.

One thing's for sure -- between John Kerry and Teresa Simões-Ferreira Heinz Kerry, they have a bunch of crucial demographics covered.

[MEG33]

After she remarried?

[Slings and Arrows]

I think I just came up with the Democratic dream ticket - Al Sharpton and Theresa Heinz-Kerry.

SHARPTON / HEINZ-KERRY 2004

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What the h*ll - we're gonna lose anyway!