The very idea of Teresa Heinz Kerry as First Lady...

I have to admit, it's been amusing to see Teresa Heinz Kerry keep stepping in one pile after another. One consolation if Kerry wins is that THK is sure to provide an entertaining four years. It would be the same kind of entertainment you get from watching really bad, campy movies.

The other day, Drudge linked this article which I found both amusing and annoying:

Washington Times: Polite society anticipates Teresa's pizazz

I'm sure other bloggers have already picked this apart, but I'm behind on my blog reading, so forgive me if this has been played out elsewhere.

The Bushes have been virtually incognito for the last four years. Harpers Bazaar recently referred to the first lady's style as "Marian the Librarian."

Gee, Laura Bush isn't a social butterfly? Just imagine somebody wanting time to themselves or with their family instead of hanging with a bunch of chattering, shallow, gossiping socialites.

"Nobody's been to The White House," added Mrs. Pincus. "You don't know about them. There's no buzz." The president is a teetotaler and Laura Bush "doesn't even do lunches. It's like, 'Hello, is this 1958?'"

Horror of horrors...could the Bushes be a bit...introverted? And isn't it just awful that a man who had a drinking problem when he was younger is abstaining from alcohol? (Hey, liberals -- make up your minds. Either condemn him for once having a drinking problem or for being a teetotaler, but not for both.) And Laura Bush doesn't "do lunches". How quaint, old-fashioned and rude of her to have better things to do than have lunch with people who probably hate her anyway.

"I think Washington will be more active" with Mrs. Kerry in the White House, said Democratic stalwart Esther Coopersmith. "I don't think John Kerry and Teresa will go to bed at 9 o'clock."

Described as "with it" by people she knows, Mrs. Kerry's sophisticated social circle is in stark contrast to Mrs. Bush's down-home Texas ways. [...]

Washington socialites speculate what a Kerry administration would bring. "I don't think they're going to serve grits in the White House," said Smith Bagley, whose wife Elizabeth was ambassador to Portugal during the Clinton administration.

Yep, the Democrats...the party of the downtrodden and the common man...

Mrs. Wallop points out that the Bushes have only hosted "what, four or five state dinners in four years? These people don't understand that to get things done you have to have these stupid dinners."

Why would you have to have state dinners to get things done? Get what things done? Again, maybe the Bushes have better things to do.

It sounds like a bunch of vain, spoiled Washington society people are upset at the Bushes for not paying enough attention to them. Since THK is one of them, naturally they are looking forward to being catered to again.

I don't blame the Bushes for not wanting to hang with these jerks.

Posted by Susan B. at 10:00 PM to Jerks