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Kerry Wants To Have Open Season Against Bush
By Matt Margolis | May 12, 2004
John Kerry, putting on his “fighter front” recently told his politicial opponents to not attack his wife:
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry warned his political opponents on Monday against attacking his outspoken wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, saying, “They’re going to have to go through me.”
Oooooooooh, Johnny, we’re so scared…
“If they want to attack her, they’re going to have to go through me. I’ll be the first to defend anything she does. … She doesn’t pull her punches,” Kerry said in one television interview when asked if Republicans were targeting his wife.
“I think that they’re foolhardy to do it, personally, because I think that she’s so down to earth and so straightforward,” Kerry said. “I think people who meet her love her.”
You know something, I would tend to agree that the spouse of a candidate should be off-limits, just as much as the children of a candidate should be. After, Al Gore’s children, Clinton’s brother and brother-in-law, or Howard Dean’s son never became liabilities for them… despite their illegal acitvities.
Nevertheless, there’s only one problem, if John Kerry is going to use and exploit his wife a surrogate for his campaign, then she is fair game. Let’s take a look at her recent attacks on behalf of her gold digging husband’s campaign:
Vice President Dick Cheney is “unpatriotic” because of his efforts to avoid military service during the Vietnam era, Teresa Heinz Kerry said in a television interview aired Thursday night.
In an unusually vigorous foray into election-year politics, the outspoken prospective first lady slammed the vice president’s activities during the Vietnam War while defending her husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
“To have a couple of people who escaped four, five, six times and deferred, deferred and deferred, calling [Kerry] anything or doubting his heroism is in and of itself unpatriotic,” Heinz Kerry said. She added that she was referring to Cheney’s lack of military service and to the attacks from the Bush campaign on various aspects of the Vietnam service of her husband.
Sorry Johnny-boy, if you’re gonna put her on the front lines of your campaign, expect that occasionally she’ll be shot at. If she wants to just sip pina coladas at the country club all day and not be an attack dog for her candidate-husband then she’ll be ignored. If John Kerry wants to use a drunk driving murderer as a surrogate, hey, we’ll play ball with him too.
If Teresa has something to hide that could damage Kerry’s political aspirations, then she’s got to slip back out of the spotlight, because we could care less about her if she just keeps quiet.
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May 12th, 2004 at 1:51 pm
Oooooooooh, Johnny, we’re so scared…
John Kerry would have no problem beating your ass tubby.
May 12th, 2004 at 2:49 pm
In 2000 Bush said that John McCain’s wife was a drug addict and that their adopted daughter from Bangledesh was a bastard mulatto from an adulterous affair with a Black whore. Then he said that McCain was unfit to be president because he spent so many years in a Vitenam prison camp. In 2002 Saxby Chambliss said Max Cleland was a pacifist for only giving three of his limbs in Vietnam while Chambliss did a typical chickenhawk stance of staying home from the war he supported. All Theresa Heinz did was repeat what was true, but I guess now she will be subject to Karl Rove’s lies.
May 12th, 2004 at 6:55 pm
hold on….you’re saying you guys are going to be attacking his wife now too? Grow up people. Talk about veering off course.
May 13th, 2004 at 12:58 am
No one said the GOP was going to be attacking Teresa Heinz-Kerry; but the conventional wisdom holds that if you’re going to dish it out you better be able to take it in return.
May 13th, 2004 at 11:45 am
kerry was attacking Mrs. Bush about something? provide links please. lmao.
May 13th, 2004 at 12:20 pm
no todd, Ms. Heinz-Kerry was attacking Cheney. If she wants to go on offensive, then she’s gonna have to expect that she’ll have to go on defensive at some point.
This is typical john kerry, “I want to attack bush, but bush can’t attack me.” If he doesn’t want his opposition to question things like his wife’s finances (which she is, at last i recall, still not budging on them, and gives piss-poor excuses for their not being disclosed) or other things relating to her that are connected to her husbands campaign..
May 13th, 2004 at 2:21 pm
If she wants to attack Cheney or others be prepared to take some yourself. You don’t get a free pass.
Typical donk BS, say whatever you want (whether it’s true or not)but whenever someone replies back it’s totally out of line.
May 13th, 2004 at 2:29 pm
Yes, attacking Kerry’s wife is a brilliant tactical maneuver! It’s a sure-fire to get lots of votes for Bush!
May 13th, 2004 at 6:29 pm
you don’t get it do you? do i need to explain it again or are you just gonna spin it around and around some more?
May 17th, 2004 at 12:15 pm
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June 1st, 2004 at 12:12 am
Look - Kerry makes like $140 K a year as a Senator - but has mansions, SUV’s and tons of family cash to pour into the campain because of his wife (who got it from her dead Republican husband). She goes on TV - SHE - and makes outragous vile remarks (she, like so many Democrats has no real agenda outside hatred) and in doing dso, she becomes a legitamate part of the Kerry campaign and open for rebuttal and critisism. Kerry is the worst of schooyard bullies - hit you, then run to the teacher saying you’re after him. No wonder only two people out of his crew THE two on TV) are willing to endorse him and ALL the rest and ALL the other people from his unit in Viet Nam say he is unfit to be C&C and was medal fishing in Viet Nam for his resume.
July 18th, 2004 at 9:44 am
She opens her mouth and no one is supposed to answer? Kind of one sided, but then most Dems are, expect kerry who has many faces.
Personally, I would not mind a boxing match with kerry.