Ted Kennedy’s phony moralizing resurrects Chapaquiddick

Union Leader ^ | 4/08/04 | JAY AMBROSE

[kattracks]

I also think he represents liberalism well...

So do I. As a liar, drunk, killing, immoral man, he is the perfect representative of liberalism.

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[Cate]

You know, there is now statute of limitations on murder..... something to ponder....

[Cate]

now = no statute of limitations.... egads...

[FlyVet]

As for Iraq being another Vietnam, Kennedy might pause to reflect that it was his brother John who stepped up our involvement in that Southeast Asian country so as to make extraction difficult, and that it was JFK’s advisers who convinced LBJ that the U.S. stakes there were vital. Despite the fighting now going on in Iraq, it seems close to hallucinatory to suppose we will lose a fraction of the 58,000 American soldiers lost in Vietnam.

No, no! This can't be true! It was Nixon's war! Nixon's war! I heard it myself!

[no dems]

Let's think about this? Teddy is John boy's biggest booster. How can we (or the Bush/Cheney campaign) link these two together like Siamese twins and RE-OPEN Chappaquiddick?

[passionfruit]

Great article!

[The Duke]

Kennedy, to his credit, has given himself wholeheartedly to public service since then.

Oh, that's interesting, and here I was thinking he was all this time in office for money and power(!)

[LibWhacker]

Exhibit #14, from the inquest.
Yeah, a moral man. You can see
from her position in the car
that she struggled for breath
to the very end. Meantime, Mr.
Morality himself swam off to
sober up, and let her drown.

[bellas_sister]

Just trying to get the word out....


http://www.ytedk.com/chappindex.htm

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Rebuilt bridge. In 1969, aide Mary Jo Kopechne died when Edward Kennedy drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts

[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

Admiral Kennedy's Olds being surfaced while his presidential chances will forever remain on the bottom. Apparently the location has become a tourist trap (lower photo)

[tessalu]

Yes, it is very fair to bring up what Ted Kennedy did in the past, for it removes his credibility.

[kcvl]

Ted Kennedy's Post-Chappaquidick Speech

[Cincinatus' Wife]

How do you know when Ted Kennedy is lying?

[kcvl]

Kennedy the Hypocrite
Neal Boortz
Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2001



Ted Kennedy is the red-nosed boozer who left a young woman, more likely than not one of his many mistresses, to drown in a car he managed to drive off a bridge into six feet of water. Instead of diving in to try to save her, this land-bound blowfish wandered around for half the night plotting and scheming ways to protect his political career from the scandal that was sure to follow. It’s clear that he later used his considerable political pull to escape and avoid responsibility for the fatal incident.

Now Kennedy is daring to question the integrity of a man like John Ashcroft? The voice of hypocrisy said of Ashcroft, "The senator is so far out of the mainstream that he has said that citizens need to be armed in order to protect themselves from a tyrannical government. Our government? Tyrannical?"

Yeah, Senator. Our government. Tyrannical. Just why does Kennedy have such a problem with this wording? Isn’t this pretty much covered by the Declaration of Independence? Does Kennedy believe that governments are incapable of tyranny? Does he believe that our government is incapable of tyranny?

Perhaps this is the most dangerous type of politician out there. A politician who works tirelessly to increase the power and scope of a central government; a politician who has never seen a tax increase he didn’t absolutely love; a politician who has no history whatsoever of standing up for the concept of individual liberty and property rights – and a politician who just can’t accept the idea that our government can become tyrannical.

Liberals are fond of the term "mainstream." Every time the leftists object to the election or confirmation of a conservative to any position in government they say that he or she is "out of the mainstream." So what does the phrase mean? Obviously to these socialistic Democrats, it means not being in agreement with their liberal dogma.

You probably don’t remember Kennedy Senate Bill No. 1. It was a complete rewrite of the U.S. Criminal Code, and it was introduced and sponsored by none other than the Hero of Chappaquidick, Ted Kennedy.

I remember S.B. 1. Can’t tell you the year, but I damned sure remember the bill. There was a provision in it that would have made a homeowner a criminal if they dared to defend their own property.

Basically, Kennedy’s law said this: If you woke up in the middle of the night and discovered that someone had entered your house and was ransacking your property, you would be required to attempt to escape from your own home to get away from the predator. If there was a door or window in your bedroom you could use for escape, you would be required to use it. You could legally confront the intruder only if there was no way for you to escape from the premises.

Isn’t that just great? Kennedy wanted a federal law that would mandate that you run from your own home if an intruder enters. You would not be allowed to stay and defend your property if there was a way for you to run.

That’s the America that Ted Kennedy dreams of. An America where law-abiding citizens run from intruders and thieves instead of standing to defend themselves and their property.

I guess that’s an easy stance to take for someone born to privilege, who didn’t have to so much as hit one lick at a snake for his millions.

[claudiustg]

---How can we (or the Bush/Cheney campaign) link these two together like Siamese twins and RE-OPEN Chappaquiddick?---

They're already joined. Punch Kennedy and Kerry's head snaps back. Massachusetts, we weep for you, but it couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of Yankees!

[wolficatZ]

[WhiteyAppleseed]

focus on Kennedy’s own credibility gap when he talks of the recession as if it were somehow Bush’s fault...and there is no Bush policy that can be blamed for instigating the recession...The Bush domestic policies Kennedy most detests — what he calls tax cuts for the wealthy — have helped spur record economic growth that finally appears to be translating into vast job creation as well.

And when that hypocritical bastard starts yapping about his concern for the working man, bring up the matter of gun manufacturer liability, and Kennedy's lack of will to protect the American worker whose job is threatened by frivolous lawsuits brought on by those greedy bastards working in cahoots with coercive government. I build and remodel places where people live--what gun manufactuers are threatened by (criminal use of their products) would be like me being sued because some druggie used a house I worked on for a crack house. Those fascist bastards in Congress think they're doing something noble by allowing frivolous lawsuits to continue unabated.

If Kennedy had been convicted of wrongdoing in Mary Jo's death, he wouldn't have gotten much more than 100 days and expenses paid by the taxpayer. Yeah, and Congress thinks if they infringe the 1st Amendment that the public's conception of corruption will be minimized.

[bellas_sister]

just fixing my tag line