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| There is simply no way to parody the ’new’ JFK anymore. He does it all for you! Friday, April 30, 2004 11:19 a.m. EDT More Kerry Car Troubles: ’Purple Heart 3’ Vanity Plate, Outsourced SUV Unlike most combat vets, Sen. John Kerry has never been shy over bragging about his wartime experience. Really? I never noticed that! Which war did he fight in, again? But even we were surprised to hear that his 1985 Dodge is plastered with vanity plates that read "Purple Heart 3." I guess ’Rambo 3’ was already taken... The Boston Herald’s Howie Carr has done some research into the Kerry family’s fleet of vehicles and has turned up some interesting details. Howie Carr, the Boston Blowtorch. He’s been riding Kerry for at least 20 years; he’s the Dean of all things Kerry. Apart from the Purple Heart plates, Carr has discovered that Kerry’s wife, Teresa, is hiding another family SUV at their estate on Nantucket, in addition to the Chevy Surburban the Heinz Kerrys keep at their Idaho mansion. And for this one, the would-be first family decided to outsource. The plates on the British-made 1997 Land Rover Defender driven by the woman who wants to be America’s next first lady read MOZMBQ - a reminder of the country Heinz Kerry recently lamented she wished she’d never left. That’s because the French don’t build SUV’s. "I can’t believe my family left Africa and came to this country," she griped to the New York Post’s Cindy Adams two weeks ago. "I can’t believe I ever even married an American." No, The-REEEEE-Za, he married The plates on Teresa’s 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee read HZ 57, a reference to the company whose management has spent the last few months sending out letters to the media insisting it has nothing to do with her. They don’t call them vanity plates for nothing! And it turns out there’s another outsourced car in the Kerry family’s vehicular portfolio. The stepson of the Democrats’ man-of-the-people candidate tools around in a nifty 2002 Porsche 911. I’m sure he saved up all his pennies for that rig. Looking forward to his radio show today (WRKO, 680 AM; I think it’s simulcast on www.howiecarr.org). |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #9 To clarify - I slapped a Boston Celtics plate (not a state issued plate) on the front of my Intrepid because the law says I don't need to have state issued plates on the front and on the back because my car was registered before 1998 (MA grandfather clause). I was speculating that perhaps he had on a specialty plate besides the state-issued vanity plate because I took 'Purple Heart 3' literally. They did spell out the other plates' abbreviations, though, so that was my interpretation. |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-04-30 3:55:22 PM |
| #8 MW and Raj - I'd imagine that the plate was actually "PRPL HT3" or something like that. I don't think any state lets you have enough letters to write out the whole damn thing. |
| Posted by: Captain Pedantic 2004-04-30 3:44:04 PM |
| #7 Hmmmm. I'm as surpised as Newsmax and Limbacher because Kerry already disavowed those |
| Posted by: GK 2004-04-30 3:06:46 PM |
| #6 But even we were surprised to hear that his 1985 Dodge is plastered with vanity plates that read "Purple Heart 3." Were you surprised to hear that he has a 1985 Dodge? That's almost twenty years old! And Teresa has a 1994 Jeep? That's ten years old. See? They are "of the people". They can't afford new cars! |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2004-04-30 2:56:29 PM |
| #5 Sorry, should have said 'registered before 1998'. |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-04-30 2:52:03 PM |
| #4 MW - I was wondering about that myself. MA plates carry six letters / numbers; maybe it's the front plate, since you don't need the state issued plate in the front if your car was registered after 1998. |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-04-30 2:51:10 PM |
| #3 Quick Teresa, turn on the XM radio - Al Franken is making a significant point! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-04-30 2:49:25 PM |
| #2 But even we were surprised to hear that his 1985 Dodge is plastered with vanity plates that read "Purple Heart 3." How many letters, digits and spaces can you get on a Mass. vanity plate these days? That plate must be three feet wide! |
| Posted by: MW 2004-04-30 2:42:13 PM |
| #1 He's so vain he probably thinks this post is about him. |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-04-30 1:58:02 PM |