Posted on 08/26/2009 12:14:17 PM PDT by presidio9
Some leading conservatives, who for years painted Edward M. Kennedy as the face of ominous liberalism and made him perhaps their most public foil, marked the Massachusetts senator's death this morning with an outpouring of respect and in some cases, even endearment.
Far different appraisals sprung from conservative talk radio and the blogosphere, where readers filled comment sections with excoriations of Kennedy's politics and his personal life, chiefly his role behind the wheel in the car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne 40 years ago.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele issued a statement saying Kennedy served his country "with great distinction" and that he "should serve as an inspiration to anyone interested in public service." The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, called him "one of the giants of American political life."
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Rush Limbaugh, the leading voice of conservative talk radio, offered what for him was a relatively restrained response, citing Kennedy's death as reason to oppose the healthcare overhaul he favored.
"Why support the rationing of healthcare when Ted Kennedy, the lion of the Senate, did not?" Limbaugh said, referring to the expansive treatment Kennedy made use of at the end of his life.
But members of his audience were not as restrained.
One angry caller -- Charles from Bossier City, La. -- cited Kennedy's opposition to Supreme Court nominees Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas, and blamed Kennedy's attacks on the two men for starting hate speech in political discourse.
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In the blogosphere, many of the comments called Kennedy an enemy of the United States and a champion of highly damaging policies. Several delighted in his death and in speculation about Kennedy's eternal fate -- with some commenters expressing hope or certainty that Kennedy was headed "to hell."
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(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Well what does the times think was going to happen when history’s pages are opened.
BTW ole Shep the sheep on Fox is gushing about how wonderful Kennedy was, excuse me while I throw up.
If you can’t say something nice about somebody, don’t say anything. That leaves me with nothing to say about teddy, but I don’t have to pretend to have “liked or respected” him.
Shep is a punk who never got a proper a$$ whooping when young.
Kennedy smears President Bush and our troops on the US Senate floor:
He described the Iraq war as a fraud “made up in Texas” as part of political strategy — accused the President of the US of “telling lie, after lie, after lie”, in order to go to war in Iraq.
Kennedy smears Judge Alito...Mrs. Alito in tears:
“In suggesting that Samuel Alito had belonged to a racist conservative group, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy relied heavily on an essay published by the organization that sounded like a bigoted rant. The essay, titled ‘In Defense of Elitism.....But the magazine’s editor at the time says the article was pure satire, a send-up of what liberals think conservatives think. He added quote, ‘I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them,”
Sen. Edward Kennedy Smears the Nation
“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.”
A speech on the Senate floor, May 10, 2004.
Kennedy’s smear of Judge Bork on the US Senator floor:
“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy....”
Kennedy betrays President Reagan:
May 14, 1983 document from the KGB archives reveals that Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) reached out to the General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, Yuri Andropov, to propose a kind of public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s defense policy initiatives toward the Soviet Union, policies that Kennedy felt were too aggressive.
I hear Shep Smith gushing about the U-boat commander and complaining about the right.
In Hell?
Kennedy legacy: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2324922/replies?c=19
I missed it. What was Rush’s challenge?
As much as I tried to prepare myself for this hypocritical slobbering over the fat drunken slug. It is even worse when it really happens. I find it very interesting that the MSM covered up his out right act of treason.
Nothing like having your two brothers deaths to save you from treason charges.
Benedict Arnold should be buried in Arlington before Ted Kennedy.
BTW ole Shep the sheep on Fox is gushing about how wonderful Kennedy was
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Ugh. He must be SNORTING the green eyeshadow, now.
O refuse to listen to shep say anything.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world. Among the free peoples who govern themselves there is but a small field of usefulness open for the men of cloistered life who shrink from contact with their fellows. Still less room is there for those who deride of slight what is done by those who actually bear the brunt of the day; nor yet for those others who always profess that they would like to take action, if only the conditions of life were not exactly what they actually are. The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be a cynic, or fop, or voluptuary. There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder. Well for these men if they succeed; well also, though not so well, if they fail, given only that they have nobly ventured, and have put forth all their heart and strength. It is war-worn Hotspur, spent with hard fighting, he of the many errors and valiant end, over whose memory we love to linger, not over the memory of the young lord who "but for the vile guns would have been a valiant soldier."
I have no doubt, teddy is roasting in HELL...
Eff the dirty, treasonous, SOB...
He also cut off all aid to S. Vietnam
We all should get “Teddy” care - the best doctors, the best treatments, the best medicine. Nothing else will do. At the next townhall, I’ll insist on “Teddy” care for all.
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