Will Teresa Heinz Mimic Hillary?

www.mensnewsdaily.com ^ | February 13, 2004 | Jan Ireland

[teldon30]

The Drudge Report is reporting that John F. Kerry, democrat presidential candidate flavor of the moment, allegedly had a recent affair with a young intern. Yawn. We know that democrats don’t mind dalliance, not from the JFK for the twentieth century, or Slick Willie in the room off the Oval Office, and probably won’t – if Wesley Clark’s off-the-record statement to twelve journalists turns out to be true – from the JFK for the new century. What I’m wondering is how Teresa Heinz, she of the 600 million ketchup dollars, and not a little pride, will take it. Will she euphemistically kill or maim him, if it turns out to be true? Or will she mimic Hillary and simply take it, as a tradeoff for a future chance at the power of a co-presidency?

Teresa Heinz, who now wants it pronounced Ter-rayz-uh, seemed none too happy a few months ago that her husband was going to run for president. She made it clear that he was not going to use her money to make the run. She couldn’t have been happy when he didn’t know how to eat a Philadelphia Cheese Steak, or what cheese to order with it, or with the unfortunate comparisons of his face to Lurch and Jay Leno. And if body language is any indication, she often seems irritated or exasperated with him.

But then there are the political causes Teresa loves. As administrator of the billion dollar Heinz Foundation awards, her allegiances become clear. She wants to change the world, but of course to suit her personal preferences. Those right now are the usual liberal causes, particularly global warming. Her Heinz Foundation 2001 award was to the originator of the global warming theory, and she expressed displeasure with the Bush administration for rejecting the Kyoto treaty. It would seem that she expects John Kerry to go along with her environmental positions, since she has said his “world citizen” mentality attracted her to him.

If the rumor is substantiated, would their relationship change? Unlikely. Teresa has lived with the knowledge that Kerry went from one heiress, to another. She certainly is aware of his early penchant for touting his initials being the same as his idol’s John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and probably is not surprised that much of his behavior mimics John Kennedy and Bill Clinton. She even made no waves when he mortgaged his half of their mansion, with its priceless art, to get money to breathe life back into his going-nowhere political campaign. And of course no one is sure how much she did behind the scenes, over the last few years, to set up this run for the presidency.

Teresa’s actual commitment to causes seems skin deep, or self-approbating. Though certainly aware of what malaria can do, she puts her fortune toward liberal environmental causes that give her awards – not toward fighting for the resumption of DDT spraying which could stop malaria in its tracks. She knows the devastation of AIDS and expresses angst about stopping it, but I have seen no evidence that she supports teaching abstinence – unlike condoms, absolutely the only sure way to stop AIDS.

Teresa Heinz seems to have a lot in common with Hillary Clinton. She has an agenda, and she wants it fulfilled. She doesn’t have the public political experience of Hillary Clinton, which will make it more difficult. But my bet is that she will stay with Kerry – if he effects enough damage control over the next few days to ensure the possibility that he can still win the democrat nomination. Teresa seems a less public version of Hillary in ambition, and will probably look to Hillary for inspiration in handling this situation.

[anniegetyourgun]

Our mainstream press is not capable of doing anything but following the crumbs that the DNC leaves out for them.....

[Humidston]

Now THAT'S funny!

...Crumbs

[Tempest]

1995, Kerry started swooning her money in 93.

[uvular]

Boy you said it! She will no doubt take the same route as Hillary and so many other power hungry women and stand by her Lurch.

Does she have anything to worry about in the future, since he had prostate surgery, or does viagra take care of that?

Now just how does one go about getting a loan on your 1/2 of a mortgage?

[Mike Darancette]

Isn't it amazing that not one major American news outlet has covered this story?...

It ain't news till "The Grey Hag" covers it. Look for it to break Friday.

[anniegetyourgun]

First laugh I've ever gotten out of you, H.....glad I worked so hard for it!

[kabar]

Teresa and John deserve one another. They are both nuevo riche who got their money through marriage. I think she will stay with him as long as the truth doesn't come out. However, if it does, unlike Hillary, Teresa will drop him like a bad habit.

[ClearCase_guy]

Bottom-line: Kerry isn't going to win. He wasn't going to win before, and certainly not now. So, Theresa has no future of political power. Zippo.

What she does have is a cheating husband who wants to spend a lot of her money. I see no reason why she would put up with it.

She might stick it out till November, but the divorce papers will be drawn up and ready over the next 6 months. I see a 1% chance that she decides to stick with the guy for 4 more years.

[CrazyIvan]

How accurately can she throw an ashtray?

[Fitzcarraldo]

If it was her niece or other family member she might not be as forgiving.

[teldon30]

Do you bruise less or more with a botox shield?

[Wild Irish Rogue]

I think she will become Teresa the Used Tissue,because she's older and Catholic and used to being taken for granted, by Kerry.I have 1 editorial comment,the other parentheses are by the author.
Note the last paragraph.

"Months later, in Washington, there was another dinner, (Their first date-WIR) and Kerry offered to drive her home. They stopped at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial; he showed her the names of his friends on the granite wall. When he dropped her off in Georgetown, he didn't accompany her to the door, which irked her. (Kerry claims that he was double-parked, with a bus coming up behind him.)
"I thought he was interesting, but . . . a specimen who'd been out in the woods a long time," she said, in her softly accented English. "He was like having a pet wolf who comes in and you say, ‘Yeh, cute.'" She made a face and pulled away. "I need to teach him a couple of things.
I think many people who get married late in life and who haven't been married have adjustment problems." (Several times, Heinz noted that Kerry "had never been married," an odd omission, which one friend attributed to her Catholicism: "She is not comfortable with the fact that he was married and divorced.")

Joe Klein, " The Long War Of John Kerry"

[ChadGore]

I guess this is what Teresa gets when she drags 1,000,000,000 Hundred Dollar Bills though a trailer park

[Hon]

"I think many people who get married late in life and who haven't been married have adjustment problems." (Several times, Heinz noted that Kerry "had never been married," an odd omission, which one friend attributed to her Catholicism: "She is not comfortable with the fact that he was married and divorced.")"

It's moree likely that he forgot to mention that he was still married when they were first dating.

[af_vet_1981]

You ask, as if Democrats have scruples, morals, or values when it comes to political gain.

Will Teresa Heinz Mimic Hillary?

In a word, yes, she will mimic Hillary and support Kerry's run for the Presidency.

[lainde]

Remember she said she'd use her own money if he got "personal" attacks...Silly woman. She knew what she was getting. He was no pig in the poke.

[Andy'smom]

"I think many people who get married late in life and who haven't been married have adjustment problems." (Several times, Heinz noted that Kerry "had never been married,"

This is the weirdest thing I have heard her say yet. Where
did she think his 2 daughters came from?

[Beck_isright]

Nope. She will not tolerate it. This is a chance for the feminazis to rally behind a woman and a candidate. If Edwards announces before March 1 that Hitlery would be his running mate, then you know this leak was planned.

Kerry now has the one opponent in the primaries he can not defeat: Integrity. And even the idiot demorats know that they can not run another Bubba type; especially a Northeastern Liberal Bubba!

[Beck_isright]

Try 91, 93, 95, 2001...the reports and leaks have been ongoing for years. Perhaps the honorable (choke, gasp, laughing) Senator Dodd(D-CT) will share some "stories" with the press...