When Teresa Heinz-Kerry noted on a campaign stop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that a bunch of Bush supporters blaring horns and chanting “Four More Years” apparently wanted “Four more years of hell,” one writer on a messageboard somewhere in cyberspace posted the following.
“Teresa Heinz-Kerry is living proof that all the money in the world can’t buy class. A wealthy woman with a huge chip on her shoulder is not an attractive combination–and not one I’d want as a First Lady. Laura Bush has it right. She’s genteel, polite, and steers away from controversy by keeping her opinions to herself.”
That pretty much says it all about how the neo-cons view their women, eh? Meanwhile, I guess it’s perfectly reasonable to give a pass to our Republican Vice President, who dropped the F-bomb on Senator Pat Leahy of Vermont recently, or to our semi-elected, semi-selected President, George W. Bush, who called Adam Clymer of the NY Times a “major league asshole.” The old double-standard always applies to the GOP and its supporters.
Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because today marks the $40 million celebration that begins four more years of hell. One of the things that’s majorly bumming me out today, something I haven’t talked about at all (there’s too much scandal in this administration for me to write about as it is), is how sad I feel that the nation didn’t get to see Mrs. Kerry as First Lady. I liked her candor… Liked when she very publicly told Colin McNickle of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (who had been consistently misquoting and hounding her) to “shove it.” I admired her for her dedication to philanthropic causes. She was like a teacher I had in junior high who said everything just like it was, no bullshit.
Unfortunately, strong women and politics don’t seem to mix very well. I don’t need to go over the attacks made by the pundits against Senator Hillary Clinton, and I can only guess what the GOP supporters have in store for Barbara Boxer, who tried to “impugn” the integrity and reputation of Condoleezza Rice during her confirmation hearings by relaying all the differing stories Rice delivered to the various news outlets in the runup and aftermath of the Iraq invasion. Apparently, Dr. Rice does not like to be confronted with her own words, and folks like Limbaugh and Hannity are sure to put Boxer a little higher up the “public enemy” list they’re keeping.
Yesterday I actually heard Limbaugh talking about how people like Boxer “support the terrorists.” Talk about certifiably insane. Yes, Rush… Democrats actually support and fund the terrorists. Didn’t you know that? We hate America. I’m sure you’ve heard the stories about how Teresa Heinz-Kerry funded the Islamic Jihad, right? They were all over NewsMax and WorldNetDaily. If they’re reporting it, it has to be true, right?
Bush claimed that the United States would “fall in love” with Laura Bush once they came to know her. I haven’t been swayed. I’d rather have Mrs. Kerry. At the very least, I know that if President Kerry ever mentioned to his wife that he was entertaining the thought of invading a soverign nation, Teresa would be sure to ask him, “are you friggin crazy?” instead of just nodding her head and saying, “well, you know best, dear…”