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DRUDGE - Newsweek Set to Unload on 'Hypochondriac' Teresa
Newsweek ^ | 11/4/04 | Newsweek Election Issue

Posted on 11/04/2004 8:29:11 PM PST by classmuse500

Managing Teresa. 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. Later came Kerry campaign's post-convention "Sea to Shining Sea" tour: a 3,500-mile bus and train trek that was not a happy trip for Teresa. With each passing day she made less effort to hide her displeasure. Audiences were mystified when Teresa turned her back to them at daylight rallies and wore dark sunglasses and a hat at night (backstage, the candidate's wife complained of migraines and sore eyes). As they reached the climax of the tour, an hourlong "family vacation" hike in the Grand Canyon, the planned happy-family- vacation was disintegrating in plain view. Daughter Vanessa didn't enjoy being a prop, Teresa was complaining of migraines and telling her husband she couldn't walk anymore. The candidate tried to bravely soldier on, pulling his sullen wife and children to show them the magnificent condors flying overhead.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kerry; kerrydefeat; ketchupqueen; newsweek; teresa; teresaheinz
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1 posted on 11/04/2004 8:29:12 PM PST by classmuse500
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To: classmuse500

It will be interesting to see if Newsweek accuses Teresa of doctor shopping for the prescription medications she takes for all her "ailments".


2 posted on 11/04/2004 8:30:59 PM PST by Lunkhead_01
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To: classmuse500

This is gonna be good :o)


3 posted on 11/04/2004 8:31:41 PM PST by Sunshine55 (4 MORE YEARS!)
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To: classmuse500

Terezzzzza is a skag!


4 posted on 11/04/2004 8:32:07 PM PST by Viet-Boat-Rider (SLAP a Liberal verbally today! We MUST keep them down where they belong!)
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To: Lunkhead_01

If they do (and they probably should), look for Rush Limbaugh to use her as a symbol of the liberals who caused him so much grief.


5 posted on 11/04/2004 8:32:11 PM PST by Lunkhead_01
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To: classmuse500

Let them eat their own. Pass the popcorn!


6 posted on 11/04/2004 8:32:18 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I got political capital and I intend to spend it!)
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To: classmuse500

"The candidate tried to bravely soldier on, pulling his sullen wife and children to show them the magnificent condors flying overhead."

Condors or vultures?


7 posted on 11/04/2004 8:32:19 PM PST by EagleClaw
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To: classmuse500
...she canceled three trips in October at the last minute, usually for what was described to aides as a "nonspecific malady."

Raisin overdose?

8 posted on 11/04/2004 8:32:22 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never reasoned into." Jonathan Swift)
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To: classmuse500

Anyone find any of this the least bit surprising? Anyone? Bueller?


9 posted on 11/04/2004 8:32:35 PM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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To: classmuse500

I just KNEW she was on something!


10 posted on 11/04/2004 8:32:49 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: classmuse500

"The candidate tried to bravely soldier on, pulling his sullen wife and daughters..."

Gee, it almost makes me feel sorry for the guy.



Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!


11 posted on 11/04/2004 8:32:55 PM PST by madameguinot (RED STATE OF MIND IN A BLUE STATE)
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To: classmuse500

That's why I've been calling her the Ketchup Queen.


12 posted on 11/04/2004 8:33:28 PM PST by Prince Charles
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To: classmuse500

Funny how many "insider" stories are now coming out about the Kerry camp.

Why didn't the people have a right to know this--BEFORE the election?


13 posted on 11/04/2004 8:33:35 PM PST by Manny Ortiz
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To: classmuse500

In the Newsweek view, it can't be anything that Kerry did, or his dumbfounded campaign staff, or his vile fumble-fingered advisors.

No, blame it on poor Teresa...who had to set there munching white raisins hoping that a stroke would carry off this pompous, arrogant jackass of a second husband.


14 posted on 11/04/2004 8:33:41 PM PST by plangent
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To: classmuse500
Kerry: "Look at those spectacular condors Terayza."

Terayza: "Shove it."

15 posted on 11/04/2004 8:33:53 PM PST by Enterprise (The left hates the Constitution. Islamic Fascism hates America. Natural allies.)
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To: Lunkhead_01

Did it seem as though she had to be held upright during sKerry's concession speech?

She looked like she was completely looped on something.


16 posted on 11/04/2004 8:33:53 PM PST by borntobeagle
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To: classmuse500
Daughter Vanessa didn't enjoy being a prop

I can only imagine what she had to say.

17 posted on 11/04/2004 8:33:55 PM PST by Paul Atreides
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To: classmuse500

"Susan Estrich, a California law professor,
well-known liberal talking head and onetime campaign manager for Michael
Dukakis, had called the Kerry campaign for marching orders. She had been
booked on Fox's "Hannity & Colmes" to talk about the Swift Boat ads."

Presstitutes....


18 posted on 11/04/2004 8:34:01 PM PST by Right Angler
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To: classmuse500; TruthNtegrity
"No man works harder for his money than he who marries it."
19 posted on 11/04/2004 8:34:11 PM PST by martin_fierro (FReeping at 26.4 kbps dialup SUCKS)
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To: Sunshine55

> This is gonna be good :o)

Not until the legacy media decides to "discover" that
the Swifties were telling the truth, and by gosh,
there's even more to it than was revealed in UFC.


20 posted on 11/04/2004 8:34:24 PM PST by Boundless (John O'Neill for US Attorney General, or at least Solicitor General)
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