Teresa Heinz-Kerry, wife of newly anointed Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. John Kerry, has rejected the "buy-one-get-one-free" slogan adopted by Bill and Hillary Clinton in 1992, promising she won't meddle in policy debates and won't barge in on Capitol Hill to testify about her pet projects if her husband wins the White House.
Asked if she was offering voters a "two-for-one when you're out there on the campaign trail," Heinz-Kerry told MSNBC's Deborah Norville Wednesday night: "No. No, not really two for one, because I don't ... do policy."
"And I don't go and testify unless I'm asked to because it is something that is being done that is interesting," she added.
Mrs. Clinton's 1994 congressional testimony on health care reform was widely seen as undermining support for the major policy initiative of her co-presidency, a performance that contributed to Democrats losing control of the Congress that November.
Even before her husband's big win in Iowa, the ketchup heiress-turned-first-lady-wannabe had taken steps to distance herself from Mrs. Clinton's most notorious 1992 campaign blooper, her proclamation that she didn't want to stay at home, bake cookies and have teas.
At one stop along the campaign trail, Heinz-Kerry actually told reporters that she enjoyed staying home and having tea with her three sons, saying, "I wouldn't have missed that for anything."
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