Subject: "Senator Ted Kennedy"
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.
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.
It's time to stand up and remindAmericawhy Sen.
Kerry's chief spokesman had to abandon his own
presidential bid in 1980. Time to say the words, Mary
Jo Kopechne, out loud.
As is often the case, we have deluded ourselves
into thinking that most Americans already know the
story of how "Teddy" the "Conscience of the Democratic
Party" left Miss Kopechne behind to die in the waters
underneath theEdgartownBridgein 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 saved himself and
swam to safety, then tried to get his cousin Joe
Garghan to say he was behind the wheel.
Those young voters don't know how Miss Kopechne,
trapped inside an air pocket in the rear seat of
Kennedy's Oldsmobile, gasped for air until she finally
died, while the Democrats, leadingIraqwar critic
rushed back to his compound to formulate the best
alibi he could think of.
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.
As they listen to the Democrats' "Liberal Lion"
accuse President Bush of "telling lie after lie after
lie" to getAmericato go to war inIraq, 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.
It's time for Americans to state unabashedly that
they will no longer "go along with the media gang"
when it comes to Uncle Ted's rants about deception and
moral turpitude inside the Bush White House. Americans
shouldn't allow Kennedy and the Democrats to set the
standard of moral conduct. Let's do it ourselves by
passing this forgotten disgrace around the Internet to
wake up memories of what a fraud and a fake Teddy
really is.
The Democratic Party, not to mention Sen. John
Kerry, should be ashamed to have the national disgrace
fromMassachusettsas their spokesman. And Americans
need to say so out loud
