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Ted Kennedy, please STFU!
Mods - please place this under Politix if you feel the need to reclass. I think it’s correct.
Time to Read Uncle Ted the Riot Act?
Why, yes!
When Sen. Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloviating on Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore his deplorable past.
And his drinking, and his womanizing, and...
His driving?
But now that he’s become Sen. John Kerry’s leading campaign attack dog, positioning himself as Washington’s leading arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such indulgence are now over.
Truth and integrity from a DemocRAT? My irony meter is redlining!
It’s time for the GOP to stand up and remind America why Sen. Kerry’s chief spokesman had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 - time to say the words Mary Jo Kopechne out loud.
Well, I remember a talking head (Koppel?) asking him point blank in 1980, "Why do you want to be President?" The response was classic Kennedy: "Um, er, ah, you know, er, um, ’cuz, er, I, uh, wanna, er..." (you get the drift. This is a game on local guy Howie Carr’s radio show - he plays a speech by Ted and the caller who correctly counts the ’um’’s in a speech wins a free dinner somewhere). That’s what lost him the election.
As is often the case, Republicans have deluded themselves into thinking that most Americans already know the story of how this "Conscience of the Democratic Party" left Miss Kopechne behind to die in the waters underneath the Edgartown Bridge in July 1969, after a night of drinking and partying with the young blonde campaign worker. But most Americans under 40 have never heard that story, or details of how Kennedy swam to safety, then tried to get his cousin Joe Garghan to say he was behind the wheel.
To paraphrase Mayor Daley James Michael Curley, remind them early and often. By proxy.
Those young voters don’t know how Miss Kopechne, trapped inside Kennedy’s Oldsmobile, gasped for air until she finally died, while the Democrats’ leading Iraq war critic rushed back to his compound to formulate the best alibi he could think of.
And thanked his lucky stars that the Kennedy's hand-pick the District Attorney on Martha's Vineyard. Still do, why do you think JFK Jr.'s autopsy was quickly followed by a cremation, the same day I believe?
More here for the morbidly curious.
Neither does Generation X know how Kennedy was thrown out of Harvard on his ear 15 years earlier - for paying a fellow student to take his Spanish final.
Or how Teddy’s dad bought ’donated $ 1 million to Harvard University before JFK applied there, "but don’t let the donation affect his application, OK?"
As they listen to the Democrats’ "Liberal Lion" accuse President Bush of "telling lie after lie after lie" to get America to go to war in Iraq, young voters don’t know about that notorious 1991 Easter weekend in Palm Beach, when Uncle Teddy rounded up his nephews for a night on the town, an evening that ended with one of them credibly accused of rape.
And who could forget about the waitress sandwich shared by Senators Kennedy and Dodd back in 1985? What a ’full’ life Teddy led, eh?
It’s time for Republicans to state unabashedly that they will no longer "go along with the gag" when it comes to Uncle Ted’s rants about deception and moral turpitude inside the Bush White House.
Fish, meet barrel...
The Democratic Party, not to mention Sen. John Kerry, should be ashamed to have the national disgrace from Massachusetts as their spokesman. And the GOP needs to say so out loud.
I was born in Masachusetts and I ain't never going back. Remember, Ted Kennedy is now the Conservative Senator from Mass. John Kerry is the liberal.
And often!
Posted by: Raj 2004-04-06
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=29860