Kennedy Touts Kerry in Chappaquiddick Flashback

NewsMax ^ | 1/29/04 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

While touting Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry's war heroics yesterday, Sen. Ted Kennedy swerved dangerously close to own past, when he bragged about how Kerry would never leave anyone behind to drown.

"You have a Jim Rassmann, who was a special forces officer that was blown off John Kerry's small boat," Kennedy told CNN.

Then, without a hint or irony, the man whose own presidential ambitions ended at Chappaquiddick added:

"When John Kerry turned that boat back and hauled Jim Rassmann out of the water, risking his own life - what he has said: We leave no one behind. He didn't leave Jim Rassmann behind. He won't leave veterans behind. He won't leave our national security behind."

Too bad Sen. Kerry wasn't driving the night Teddy left Mary Jo Kopechne behind.

[Diogenesis]

“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old.
Through his tireless work as a legislator,
Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”

– Charles Pierce, January 5, Boston Globe

[3catsanadog]

Too much Chivas makes a man forget himself.

[Daus]

This may be well known, but according to Zell Miller's book, Teddy's dog name is Splash. That seems wrong on a couple of levels. :)

[The G Man]

That is unbelievable.

Oh, wait. No, it's not.

[JustPlainJoe]

Kennedy is so DUMB, it's beyond funny. He just DOENS'T get it, does he?

Go have another drink Teddy.....

[Lion in Winter]

tk is a blooming idiot!

[ampat]

Yeah. He's a drug addict. It just happens to be a legal drug.

[BigLittle]

They say a criminal always returns to the scene of the crime. TK seems almost ready.

[Molly Pitcher]

I believe Limbaugh was playing the tape of this in his first hour. Amazing!

[small voice in the wilderness]

Does he think that enough time has passed that no one remembers? Or cares? Or is he just too damned inebriated to know what he says?

MYGAWD, where is his shame. And where is the lightning bolt of judgement when it's truly needed?

[Pylot]

It's fun to watch the little struggle between Kennedy and the Clintoon's.

Kennedy sure won the deal to have the Democrats convene in Boston. Wonder who will prevail with their candidate.

[JustPlainJoe]

I'd like to see video of him making this speech - interspersed with the SNL skit with Bill Murray as Kennedy being asked "Where's Mary-Jo, Ted?" "ummmm....she's in da caaaahhhh..."

[Puppage]

TED KENNEDY HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE THAN ALL MY GUNS....

COMBINED!

[mountaineer]

Kennedy is so DUMB, it's beyond funny.

He's Patrick "Patches" Kennedy's father, isn't he? Well, that fits.

[Free ThinkerNY]

I'll bet Ted Kennedy has never been to her grave to pay respects. What a piece of sub-human trash. His arrogance is outrageous. When will Republicans beat him into the dirt with his Chappaquiddick scandal? Why have they've let him off the hook all these years?

[NautiNurse]

Swim for your life, Teddy. You are getting perilously close to judgment day.

[gov_bean_ counter]

And for a while Benedict Arnold was a "war hero" too.