I thought I would take a moment to bother you all to remind everyone that July 19th was the 40th anniversary of the infamous Chappaquiddick incident in which an inebriated Senator Ted Kennedy marked a reunion of his brother Bobby's "Boiler Room" girls by driving one to her death off the Dyke Road bridge.
This manslaughter might have been forgiven if Kennedy hadn't decided to evade responsibility for the accident and cover it up by failing to report it, trying to co-opt one of his aides to cop to being the driver, and then leaving them to try and fix it for him for over seven hours.
Worse, Mary Jo Kopechne, whose drowned body was found in a position trying to eke out the last molecules of air within the submerged car, was left to drown by the self-involved Senator, who chose not to seek immediate help.After proceedings by a Kennedy-friendly judicial system in Massachusetts, Kennedy was found guilty of leaving the scene of an accident and had his driver's license suspended. (what a gigantic joke and miscarraige of justice, how this man did not go to jail for at the least involuntary manslaughter and still remain a US Senator from the Democratic Party is definitely one of the reasons I will never be a Democrat) But perhaps the crowning event was Kennedy's appalling nationally-televised apologia, which I remember viewing on TV, and which still reigns as probably the worst and most self-indulgent political pitch ever. He may be "the Lion of the Senate", but I will never forget Chappaquiddick.
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Now as the left wing media fawns over the man because he is dying they even failed to report this. But don't worry the National Enquirer managed to get the story.
The ENQUIRER reports exclusively that Ted Kennedy, dying of brain cancer, made a secret visit to the grave of Mary Jo Kopechne. ...
In his final Thanksgiving celebration with his family, the dying 76-year-old Kennedy patriarch expressed his deep regret over the Mary Jo tragedy.
Only days before the holiday break, Ted made a special trip to visit the parish cemetery of St. Vincent's Roman Catholic Church in Plymouth, Pa., where Mary Jo was buried July 22, 1969.
"Ted knows his days are numbered and has been wrestling with making this difficult trip," a family source told The ENQUIRER. "While Mary Jo's parents were alive, because of the bad blood that existed, Ted avoided going."
Another pile of rubbish from the Kennedys. The reason the man finally went to the cemetary is that he is dying and is now hoping for forgiveness as he contemplates a possible after life.
Ted Kennedy has styled himself an opponent of wealth and privilege, but his career is a tribute to their power when wielded by a man of the left.
If Kennedy had been a conservative Republican, you wouldn't have marked he date. If you had, it would have been to point out that Mary Jo had it coming and that evidence points to the fact that she was driving. Perhaps, the pol had merely escaped the murder/suicide attempt of a troubled aide. Then, you would cut and paste links for your online sources, and there would be plenty, owing to the temperament of the right wing bloggers.
Mark, please also mark down November 6th as a day to remember Laura Bush killed Michael Douglas in Midland Texas. She ran a stop sign and killed a classmate, no charges were filed. Just to be fair and balanced as Hannity as Fox (fix) News says.
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