Posted on 07/26/2004 6:54:02 PM PDT by mykdsmom
Teresa Heinz Kerry, years before becoming a Democrat, railed against the party's ``putrid'' politics, said she didn't trust Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and angrily called the liberal lion a ``perfect bastard.''
In comments published in a little-known 1975 book about political wives called ``The Power Lovers: An Intimate Look at Politicians and Their Marriages,'' Heinz Kerry lashed out at the senator she'll share the primetime convention stage with tonight.
``I know some couples who stay together only for politics,'' Heinz Kerry said at the time. ``If Ted Kennedy holds on to that marriage (to ex-wife Joan) just for the Catholic vote, as some people say he does, then I think he's a perfect bastard.''
Heinz Kerry, then married to Republican Sen. H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania, said she ``didn't trust'' President Richard M. Nixon but added, ``Ted Kennedy I don't trust either.''
The combustible and ever-quotable Heinz Kerry said of Democrats, ``The Democratic machine in this country is putrid.'' Excerpts of the comments appeared in The Boston Herald American in January 1976.
Coming a day after Heinz Kerry was caught on camera telling a reporter to ``shove it'' when the reporter questioned her on statements made in a Boston speech, the remarks could undercut Democrats' ability to showcase a positive message at the convention.
Kennedy's office dismissed the comments as water under the bridge and said the two get along famously now _ regardless of what Heinz Kerry has said in the past.
``Over the years, Sen. and Mrs. Kennedy and John Kerry [related, bio] and Teresa Heinz Kerry have developed a deep friendship and strong mutual respect,'' Kennedy spokesman David Smith said in a statement to the Herald.
``A 30-year-old quote dug up by the Republican attack machine made long before they became friends is irrelevant.''
Heinz Kerry's spokeswoman also said the quotes' age makes them irrelevant.
``You are talking about statements that are more than 30 years old. A lot has changed since then,'' said Marla Romash, a senior adviser to Heinz Kerry.
But it isn't the first time quotes have emerged in which Heinz Kerry targets the legendary Bay State senator.
In an interview with The Washington Post in 1971, Heinz Kerry declared, ``Ted Kennedy I don't trust, like I don't trust Nixon, although I think Nixon's done a helluva lot better than I thought he would.''
Just last year, Heinz Kerry said she regretted the comments she had made to the Post regarding Kennedy. Romash noted the number of times Heinz Kerry has campaigned with Kennedy and said Victoria Reggie Kennedy will host a luncheon for Heinz Kerry this afternoon at the Museum of Fine Arts.
``There's a very good relationship now,'' Romash said.
She said Heinz Kerry stood by her comments about the Democratic machine, saying state Democratic parties in New Jersey and Pennsylvania at the time were ``a big problem,'' Romash said.
``I think there are a lot of people who would say there were problems in state parties in Pennslyvania and New Jersey,'' Romash said. ``Those problems don't exist anymore.''
And what does that make you and John F'n, Teresa?
LOL!
hey ......legs or not .....YA GOTTA LOVE IT !!!......by Nov. terrrrreeezzzzzzaaaaaaaa , is gonna have more legs than a ..... millipede , or what ever you call them things.!!
Terry Kerry ping
This is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends. this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
KENNEDY , WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE , CHAPPIQUIE ANNIVERSARY , connect the dots ??...
well, until jihad hillary, and then you don't want to use the imagery "pile on the wife"; makes peope vomit.
Old or not, you have to agree that this just keeps getting better and better.
Oops. Boston Herald, not Globe.
you will recall that GWB got firebombed with a 20 year old DUI three days before the election; the rules have changed since the clintons sullied the country. now, I believe just about anything is fair game.
http://www.utne.com/pub/1999_67/promo/435-1.html
'...political campaigns, which are in her words, "the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of
empty promises." '
http://www.s-t.com/daily/05-97/05-16-97/a03sr017.htm
"BOSTON -- Ketchup heiress Teresa Heinz got her indoctrination into the rough-and-tumble of Massachusetts politics last year when a newspaper published a picture of her car parked illegally in front of a fire hydrant.
The license plate -- "HZ57," for "Heinz 57" -- was a dead giveaway.
Now some Bostonians believe they've gotten a return lesson in money and political power: Ms. Heinz and her husband, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., have paid to have the hydrant moved around the corner.
"This both improves the pictorial environment and frees up a parking space," Sen. Kerry's spokesman, Michael Meehan, said in defense of the move.
Not everyone is so happy.
"I've lived on Beacon Hill for 47 years and never have I known somebody to get a hydrant moved at their will," said Peter Thomson, president of the Beacon Hill Civic Association. "You know why they did it: Because they jump through hoops when a high-power politician calls up for it."
The hydrant sat in front of the multimillion-dollar townhouse the couple own in Beacon Hill's fashionable Louisburg Square -- perhaps the most exclusive area of Boston's most expensive neighborhood.
"
http://www.s-t.com/daily/04-00/04-07-00/a12op068.htm
"Heinz proposes a promising prescription drug solution ...Means testing is the key "
http://www.progressive.org/dimmarch.htm
"[Rick Santorum is] critical of everything, indifferent to nuance, and incapable of compromise," Teresa Heinz, widow of the late GOP Senator John Heinz, has said of him.
http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~salient/issues/960506/salpoint.html
"Campaign kick-off for Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.) featured Rep. Joe Kennedy getting the national anthem wrong ('Oh say can you see. By the Star-Spangled Banner'), Sen. Kerry referring to 'the University of Lowell at Dartmouth,' and this from Sen. Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz: 'If there is anything I can do as a woman and as his wife to make his life richer, after 12 years of celibacy, I promise you I will.'
--National Review, May 6.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96aug/beatty/beatty.htm
Last year [1995], when [Teresa] Heinz was mugged in Washington, Kerry kept to his round of fundraising events instead of rushing to her side. Did she miss him? "I just needed hugs," she confided to Margery Eagan, of the Boston Herald.
I love it. Rush alluded to this around 12:30 today. In his coy Rush way.
yeah, the major media outlets will call it "the right wing
publication Boston Herald" if they touch it at all.
"Perfect Bastard" is at least TRUTHFUL!
Someone in Kennedy's office has an outrageous sense of humor, lol!
it obviously has SOME legs for major news to be there...keep checking on this story...Katie is a day early with her THK interview...she is talking about "shove it" tomorrow, not this new revelation. Any embarrassment to the rats is a healthy sign. Don't just stay here and gripe, tell your friends, tell your enemies, make people understand, write your congressman/crongresswoman (women), let them know that we are here to help get GWB re-elected. Do not hesitate. Your futue and your freedom depends on this.
"this is lightweight stuff. It isn't going to have legs".
Imagine a Japanese string instrument playing a serine oriental melody, as you are washed over by the tranquil sounds of a beautiful flowing fountain.
Master: Grasshopper.
Grasshopper: Yes, Master?
Master: One must lull an opponent into a state of false security.
Grasshopper: I understand Master. In his false confidence, he will become vulnerable to attack.
Master: You have learned well, young one. It is time for you to move on with your knowledge.
When engaged in battle Grasshopper, do not allow your temper, or your opponents bluster to cause you to lose patience. We are taught through wisdom, not to move too quickly, or aggressively against an enemy, until your senses tell you it is the time to strike him a deathblow.
Grasshopper: But Master, you teach us to measure our use of aggression.
Master: You are wise beyond your years, young one. It brings honor to defeat an enemy, not by a deathblow, but by inflicting upon him a thousand paper cuts. ;-)
This may be a paper cut, but kerry’s campaign is bleeding, and it’s bleeding from about 400 paper cuts so far!
LLS
I agree. I think they are trying to innoculate her by getting this stuff out early.
I think she's out of her league. It's sad.
I don't think she's the Hillary Co-President type. She should not be opposed with the same vigor. Unwarranted, overstated attacks on Mrs. Heinz-Kerry will build cover for Hillary in the minds of wishy-washy voters. Down the road we'll regret them.
This is a piece of a big Mosaic
about the Kerrys. By itself it
isn't make or break. But those
who dismiss it are wrong, IMO.
It sounds JARRING, no matter if
she said it whenever about no
matter whom.
She's running against LAURA.
Won't cut it...
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