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Why Ted Kennedy Was the Last of His Kind
The Atlantic ^ | August 2009 issue | Ronald Brownstein

Posted on 03/09/2024 11:28:59 AM PST by DallasBiff

Edward M. Kennedy was romantically described as the last lion, but it might be more accurate to think of him as a river. Especially earlier in his long career, he could be tumultuous and overflow his banks, both politically and in his personal life. But mostly he was steady, forceful, and above all persistent. Particularly in the three decades after his failed 1980 presidential bid

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KEYWORDS: 20thcentury; fakehistory; lbj; politics; tedkennedy
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To: Levy78

“This fat, alcoholic loser would’ve worked in a Jiffy Lube were it not for his father and brothers. He did so much damage to the country. I’ll definitely piss on his grave if I ever get the opportunity.”

Can’t say it better.


21 posted on 03/09/2024 11:46:26 AM PST by Luke21
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To: mund1011

A drunken Kennedy anywhere near a car?


22 posted on 03/09/2024 11:47:19 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: DallasBiff

And if anyone believes that clown was legitimately reelected 50 years straight even after he murdered a woman, I have a bridge I want to sell you. And election fraud is Mass is still running rampant.

2016 I was all over that state making deliveries (i drive a truck) I was everywhere, from Pittsfield to Boston, and all I saw were Trump signs. In store windows, bumper stickers, signs on peoples lawns, they even had a giant Trump for POTUS billboard on i-95. I can’t even remember seeing one sign for Hillary. Yet she won the state? Like HELL she did!!!

That was a real slap across the head wake up call to me when that happened, I realized that wow, election fraud is real as hell and nobody says anything.


23 posted on 03/09/2024 11:49:09 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: DallasBiff

Teddy Kennedy was an agent of the Soviet Union.

So, in that respect perhaps he was the last of his kind.

But we still have plenty of Communist in the Senate.

And the living communist in the US Senate carry on his work of destroying the United States.


24 posted on 03/09/2024 11:49:20 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: DallasBiff

How did Ted Kennedy screw in a light bulb? He would have someone hold the bulb and he would drink Scotch until the room started spinning.


25 posted on 03/09/2024 11:51:50 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Leaning Right

“And now a hat tip to Bill Clinton. At least Monica Lewinsky is still alive.”

I wonder how many of the young girls he visited with on Epstein Island have passed away.


26 posted on 03/09/2024 11:52:13 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: AndyJackson

I’m formerly from Massachusetts. That fat pant load left a 29 year girl to drown in the back of his Oldsmobile, swam away and waited 9 hours to report the accident.

All to save his political neck. He should have crawled under a rock and went away. But no, the people of Massachusetts sent hit asshole back to Congress for the following 40 years.

A total disgrace.


27 posted on 03/09/2024 11:54:17 AM PST by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is a gift a man gives to himself." - Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: AndyJackson

Rum runners provided a useful service especially in the face of a corrupt, evil Union government and oppression.


28 posted on 03/09/2024 11:54:19 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: DallasBiff
Last of his kind as in the last member of Congress to kill someone outside of war?

-PJ

29 posted on 03/09/2024 11:54:29 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: DallasBiff

Ted Kennedy was the best known among the south shore drunks in Massachusetts.


30 posted on 03/09/2024 11:56:55 AM PST by Smber (The smallest minority is the individual. Get the government off my back.)
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To: DallasBiff

Ted who?


31 posted on 03/09/2024 11:58:18 AM PST by Exit148
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To: DallasBiff

Was he the last guy to knock up a female staffer and then drive her off a bridge to drown so as not to ruin his political career?

Maybe, since that kind of behavior is now considered resume enhancement by Democrats. Or because you don't have to drown them anymore.

32 posted on 03/09/2024 12:08:10 PM PST by Vigilanteman
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To: DallasBiff

Hart-Celler Act. Burn in hell sh*thead.


33 posted on 03/09/2024 12:09:25 PM PST by dljordan
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To: DallasBiff

For his last ten years or so, Kennedy was as far gone as Biden has been for the last few years.


34 posted on 03/09/2024 12:15:23 PM PST by x
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To: DallasBiff

Teddy was one of the worst Kennedys that ever lived. I would say that he gave the Kennedys a bad name, but I would be repeating myself.


35 posted on 03/09/2024 12:17:42 PM PST by caver ( )
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To: SuperLuminal

Reagan said, “hold my beer, Ted.”


36 posted on 03/09/2024 12:20:21 PM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Joe Marine 76

It was hard to tell who was a bigger disgrace...

—Ted Kennedy
—his aides and friends that lied for him
—local officials who covered up for him
—the MA voters who re-elected him
—the mass media who continued to praise him


37 posted on 03/09/2024 12:26:12 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: DallasBiff

Besides Mary Jo Kopechne, what often comes to mind is the Teddy Kennedy, Chris Dodd “waitress sandwich.” Teddy boy and Chrissy would attact, abuse restaurant and cocktail waitresses by pining them between Teddy and Chrissy.

That is another great example of how the democRATS ‘support’ women.


38 posted on 03/09/2024 12:28:10 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: DallasBiff

John Huston in CHINATOWN said to Jack Nicholson -

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.”

Two out of three was not bad.


39 posted on 03/09/2024 12:30:56 PM PST by Jolla
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To: DallasBiff

He was a drunk womanizer who killed Mary Jo. He has no other credibility besides that.


40 posted on 03/09/2024 12:31:30 PM PST by ealgeone
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