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Kerry's Wife Explains Switch From GOP

Theresa Hienz Kerry Explains Switch From GOP She claims she became angry boutthe wat Max Clelend got treated by the Republicans in a hotly contested race.

Heinz Kerry says anger, not ideology, prompted her to become a Democrat. The wife of Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, says her emotion stemmed from the way the Republican Party, to which she had pledged allegiance, treated Democratic Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia in 2002.
Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm as an Army captain during the Vietnam War, lost his re-election bid in a bitter campaign against then-Rep. Saxby Chambliss. The GOP had raised questions about Cleland's patriotism because of his position on legislation to create the Department of Homeland Security. Cleland supported the concept behind the department, but insisted that a workers' rights provision be part of the bill.

I wasn't there, I don't know the wording that was used in the political stumping, but it seems to me me as though he was pork barreling and trying desperatly to stuff an unrelated bill into one that had Urgency and importence in the eyes of the American people. It seems pretty coincidental that her timing was right about the time that Her husband decided to get into the presidential race. She might have come across a little less hypocrytical if she spoke in more generalized reasons and didn't come off with such a sour grapes explaination.

posted by Liberty @ 4:34 PM