Heinz-Kerry: A major reason John Kerry lost, on her "Whine and Snivel" Tour.

Most of us remember her, though the memories are fading at a rapid rate.

Teresa Heinz Kerry, something of the Anna Nicole Smith of politics (Neither did anything to earn any of their money... they just happened to be at the right place at the right time...) is apparently out and about on her own version of the "black helicopter" tour.

In retrospect, most of us just look back at her appearances and shake our collective heads. Can we ever forget the speeches where she showed her total inability to avoid hypocrisy? ("We're learning more and more about potential first lady Teresa Heinz Kerry. Very well educated woman. Did you know that? In fact she can say 'shove it' in five different languages?" Jay Leno) Actually, I believe she served as a key figure in the Bush campaign's success. After all, did we need a wild-eyed nut job as First Lady, a title she didn't think highly of in any event?

Yeah, HK frequently showed herself out-of-touch with people at every level and served, I believe, as a major anchor around John Kerry's political neck. Not up there with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, you understand... but fairly close. She hurt his chances... badly... and now, for whatever the reason, she feels compelled to go on hurting him politically.

Yesterday, she spilled her guts to Joel Connelly of all people, working double overtime to confirm the perception of a rich woman whose primary achievement was marrying more money then God, and who now seems desperately in need of medication.

Memo to HK: Yeah.... you got us. We rigged the election. Set the whole thing up. Hacked the database... bribed thousands of election workers... in fact, I'll be honest here and tell you that we stole this election in at LEAST 57 different ways.

We're busted. Sigh.

Monday, March 7, 2005

In The Northwest: Teresa Heinz Kerry hasn't lost her outspoken way

By JOEL CONNELLY
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST

What made Teresa Heinz Kerry so refreshing to some voters, and threatening to others on the 2004 campaign trail, is summed up when THK talks about her speech to last year's Democratic convention:

"Nobody told me what to do," she told a Saturday fund-raiser here.

The implicit afterword: Nobody better try.

The sails of the philanthropist wife of Sen. John Kerry were not trimmed by November's narrow electoral defeat.

The softly accented voice gives pointed advice to the Democratic Party, which she lately joined, formerly having spent 15 years as wife of a Senate Republican.

Heinz Kerry flew into town on her own Gulfstream jet (the Flying Squirrel, named for a Sun Valley ski run) direct from a conference on global philanthropy at Stanford.

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