John and Teresa Kerry steam up Democratic race

[Freddie Stubbs]

Commentary by Susan Estrich
February 05, 2004

It’s hard enough to get used to the idea that a presidential candidate is your own age, as John Edwards is. It’s even harder to get used to the idea that he’s someone you’ve known for years, as I’d known Bill Clinton.

But try getting used to the fact that a candidate for president used to date, and dumped, one of your close girlfriends, and ended up married to one of the richest women in town. That’s how well I know John Kerry, who I first met at least 25 years ago. Of course I could blame him for bad dating behavior, but that’s never how it works. Feminism notwithstanding, it’s always hard to like the woman who ultimately lands the guy. She has to be quite a woman. Teresa Heinz Kerry is.

Luckily for John Kerry, George W. Bush was young and stupid once, too, and he wasn’t even single. So this isn’t a political issue but a personal one.

I’ve known John Kerry long enough to know him when he was married, single and married again. I remember his man-about-town days in Boston and in Washington. I was the one who used to go back and forth, telling my girlfriend in Boston about the likes of Morgan Fairchild in D.C.

more: http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=40&screen=news&news_id=30454

[populistmom]

1. Not exactly real issues here

I'm sure though stories like this play nicely for Ms. Estrich's Faux broadcasts.

[seventhson]

2. yuck

[JI7]

3. this is nothing

she isn't talking about anything here.

[creativelcro]

4. I just vomited... Sorry...

:puke:

[Sensitivity]

5. Hey Guys, there IS something about Kerry/Teresa that is pretty potent