Posted on 08/29/2009 5:19:12 PM PDT by Chairman of the Bard
Whatever Mary Jo was or was not up to that night in 1969, America is in her debt.
If not for her,the Runt of the Litter would probably been President in either 1977 or 1981.
Would Reagan have defeated Camelot?
We’ll never know!
Mary Jo deserves a monument.
“Anyone here notice how much fresher the air tastes now the we do not have to share it w/ Teddy.”
I sure did. And there is more. There is a report the hole in the ozone suddenly shrank remarkably, while greenhouse gases suddenly decreased by at least one third on the date of his departure. Climate change zealots around the globe are ‘stuned.’ Al Gore, the newly selected climate change Czar, is expected to hold a news conference to downplay the phenomenal occurance as an atmospheric hiccup unrelated to the Kennedy departure.
More later
...well, Helms wasn't mean enough was he? He didn't even come close to matching Kennedy's passion for his cause. If he did, he would have countered every one of Kennedy's speeches and would have followed Kennedy around, making his life miserable.
If Helms had the passion, he would have been calling Kennedy out on a weekly basis to explain his "failings" re: Mary Jo..and just why running away and letting her die would not disqualify Kennedy to serve as dog catcher, let alone a U.S. Senator. Helms would have beat home the fact that Kennedy maintained his position only because his name was Kennedy, and for no other reason.
The sad fact is that the Senate is truly a "good old boys club"...no different than any other country club. The members have little "spats" in the daytime, but at night they gather at the same old watering hole and play grab-ass and are the best of "friends". Kennedy played the game too, but his "spats" were a deception and his real goal, from which he never wavered, was a deadly serious agenda...making the U.S. into a socialist hell hole where there is a shortage of everything except misery..
...Helms just played the game for he didn't want his "friend" on the "other side of the isle" really angry with him.
About the royalty issue: I turned on the TV Saturday morning and saw a few minutes of the folks arriving for funeral mass.
The talking heads were discussing which of the Kennedy clan would most likely take over his Senate seat... like it’s a peice of property that gets inherited.
And I noticed that the US Government’s representation is this event was about 90% from 3 families - Kennedy, Clinton, Bush.
[[The Kennedy fame and fortune made off of us ‘small souls’.]]
The father made em sick, Ted wanted to ‘fix em up’ again (with crappy socialised health care- He’d advocate that they be given the same health-care opportunities the members of congress enjoyed- little people don’t deserve the services the elite are ‘entitled to’ apparently)
Another devastating act of penmanship by “Mark the Knife.”
Even to a writer as deft and witty as Steyn, the death of Mary Jo, and of countless aborted babies, is no laughing matter.
Well, I wasn’t talking about FR, of course, where we revel in the unlimited opportunity to Speak the Truth, but instead, all the cable outlets, particularly FOX, which we’ve come to count on to speak at least a little truth. Too often, looking at the guest lists of say, Hannity and O’Reilly’s , they do nothing but pander to the likes of hacks like BOb Beckel, Begala, Carville, Leo Terrell, a black “lawyer” who is perhaps the VERY BEST example of the Phony Moral Outrage Actor I have EVER seen, and countless others. Hannity in particular seems to love going “head to head” with non-entities like Leo, and Quannell X of the New Black Panther Party, or the NoI, or whatever absurdist org he now represents.
COB:
Couldn’t have said it better myself. My mother, an uber liberal and ACLU member (my father was a Goldwater supporter), was even outraged by the Chappaquiddick incident. His lack of remorse over the fact that he put his career ahead of a young woman dying is so horrid that a psychiatrist that I saw on TV said it was likely that Teddie was a sociopath or so weak mentally that he should never be elected President (well, we now have Obama who appears to be weak AND a sociopath).
He also said that the predicted that Teddy will be fat and bloated. He noted that he already had jowls which neither John or Bobbie had. He noted that this was a sign of weakness and no self control. Throw in the cheating scandal at Harvard, and its support either or both the sociopath or weakness.
He concluded that Teddie was a sociopath with incredible riches and cover from family and the media. And should never be allowed near the White House.
At least that one happened!
That’s the story...and I still don’t believe it. Anyone who worked for the Kennedy’s is suspect. That she didn’t have a “reputation” for extramarital affairs does not mean that she wasn’t capable of it. Anyone who worked for the Kennedy political machine is suspect for pretty much anything.
The other thing I was disgusted by was a CARDINAL doing the funeral!!!!!!! WHY doesn’t the Catholic Church say FORGET IT to these people who are Pro-Lifers????????? SUCH HYPOCRACY!!! I am Catholic and it makes me SICK!!!! I left the Episcopal Church because of THEIR liberal hand-wringing - where can ya go to get away from it???
You’re a moron.
No, you’re worse than a moron.
bump for later
Re: “None of us have any sentimentality for him either. Even Liberals at my office acknowledged his failings.”
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A long-time Dem friend of mine who lives in MA just e-mailed and commented that while she watched a bit of the events re TK yesterday, she turned off the TV because enough was ENOUGH!!!
Frankly, I was shocked to see her write a comment like that.
I think you mean they should say “forget it” to the “Pro Choice” (abortion-is-OK) people.
It varies by geographic locale. If you have nothing but lousy priests and bishops in your local area, that stinks. You could try making noises to the hierarchy in Rome about this monkey business — if enough concerned Christians do that, Rome may lower the boom on these folks.
Another observation is that where the RCC is mushy, the Southern Baptists (e.g.) may not be.
Oh wow, Bob from De, good, no, great point!
Yeah, well when people stop making "Pi^s on Jesus" alleged art and such( BUT HE"S ARISEN) I'll enjoin with others and keep calling a spade a spade especially when folks try to saint people as weird as MJ, as crooked as Teddy, or as evil as Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mohammed or Owamababa...the latter is just beginning his reign of terror and until he proves something different he's fair game along with lil Teddy.
I can still vote Republican by absentee ballot, but I refuse to be classy and respectful to the carcass of that despicable, drunken swine of a left-wing hack, who couldn’t recognize civility if it was drowning in his car.
Well stated.
Ted did have people around him that cleaned up his mess very well, including dealing with public perception of events. Hopefully, as far as any Kennedy children that are left that will stop with Ted’s death, especially with the internet to sort through to secure the truth.
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