[pepsionice]

You have to wonder....if Chappaquddick had never occurred...would Teddy have been the primary candidate in 1976 instead Jimmy Carter?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#11: "would Teddy have been the primary candidate in 1976 instead Jimmy Carter?"

As bad as Carter was, it boggles the mind to think it could have actually been worse. At least Jimmy Carter was sober.

With alcoholic Kennedy, who knows who would have been the power behind the throne, or what catastrophes might have occurred.

[Roccus]

Scene from the 1976 Democrat Convention

[Fiji Hill]

Rush Limbaugh calls Mary Jo Kopechne is a national heroine for having prevented a Ted Kennedy presidency.

[Daveinyork]

1972 instead of McGovern, and he might have won.