I stopped laughing at this piece on a potential Theresa Heinz First Ladyship long enough to make a link. Let me offer these excerpts quickly before I start to giggle again:
“[Heinz] knows people in all walks of life,” said Time magazine photographer Diana Walker, one of Mrs. Kerry’s closest friends. “She knows where the brains are.”
“What we’re hungry for,” said former Clinton administration official Ann Pincus, “is someone who’s engaged.”
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.”
“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?’?”
And then this:
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.
Both Republicans and Democrats agree on one point: Mrs. Kerry is an object of fascination.
“I think she has this kind of magic,” said Mrs. Coopersmith’s daughter Connie, a Democratic activist in her own right who did advance work for Mrs. Kerry recently. “She’s a very subtle cross between Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren. She’s a real sensualist.”
What?
