Maybe that has something to do with Ted never expressing remorse.
Or, get this; (a very conservative idea) not taking accountability for a terrible wrong that he committed.
Yes we are very narrow minded. Character should matter in a United States Senator.
Leaving a a young woman to die ( and not even making a freaking phone call to save her????!!!!???) seems to us a very bad thing.
Had Ted apologized for Mary Jo's death, and tried to help her at the accident; I would guess most of us would have a very different opinion of him.
But Chappaquiddick can't just be “forgotten” because he is a Kennedy.
Not I.