Chappaquiddick itself was not the problem. It’s mostly the stark lack of public remorse by Teddy. And to a lesser extent, the fact that his powerful connections let him skate.
None of us have any sentimentality for him either. Even Liberals at my office acknowledged his failings.
I never was “into” royalty. I can’t believe all the flatulation going on over this guy.
Anyone here notice how much fresher the air tastes now the we do not have to share it w/ Teddy.
You are not cynical. This love fest is disgusting! This senator is getting more coverage from the lame stream media than President Ford got when he died.
The media in this country is going to be the primary cause of the downfall of the USA. They refuse to tell the truth about what this facist administration is doing to the country.
Such overt sentimentality heaped upon a man born into such wealth who indulged his every whim regardless of the impact it had on others is what is perverted.
bttt
Just wait for KKK Byrd to die. I’d like to hear Obama’s eulogy for him.
Not a problem. Sirius Radio tuned into the Sinatra stations with an occasional trip over to the old time radio channel is all I need to keep me entertained.
Ted Kennedy was remorseless because he knew he could invoke family prestige and power to skate by the consequences... Ted Kennedy spent years lying by omission ... disguising the truth with that fiasco in Florida in later years... Ted Kennedy had a pattern of disguising the truth aided by the liberal media ... this is not to mention his destructive liberal/leftist political agenda which has been very hurtful to America..
In a similar manner - Barrack Hussein ‘The Kenyan’ Obama was a consummate narcissistic pathological liar in all the years before his election - yet somehow the media avoided the truth and magically Obama was not a consummate narcissistic pathological liar AFTER the election too — totally amazing
That and that he lived seventy-seven years too long and died seventy-seven years too late.
Who knows what my trial will be when I approach the Pearly Gate. I surely hope my inquisitor is infinitly merciful. Knowing that I can still say the world would be a much better place if Edward Kennedy had been aborted as he wanted so many other babies to be aborted!
He was never, ever a good man!
Steyn writes without his usual chuckling style. I suspect, living in New Hampshire, he’s had to endure an extra heaping helping of TeddyWorship this week. This column was particularly biting.
Clymer? THE Clymer? Teddy was apparently a Clymer, big time.
Outside of Massachusetts, DC and a few neighborhoods in Manhattan, the name “Ted Kennedy” will always be a punchline.
“We conservatives are classy and respectful; however, the adulation being heaped upon this man are undeserved. Sorry if you find me overly cynical.”
The point is well taken. The man is dead, I feel no need to be overly critical of him. I really try to avoid speaking ill of the dead. But, I can’t stand to see the hero worship of a man who led a less than exemplary life and in all probability was a murderer.
Brilliant article. There are few people in public life for whom I had, and retain, less respect than for Teddy Kennedy. I do note, however, that by declining to resign he has placed the Democrats quite unnecessarily in the uncomfortable position of having lost their supermajority in the Senate for the time it will take to elect a successor, right before a critical vote on health care “reform”. It isn’t quite up to abandoning a young woman drowning but it’s perfectly in character.
But...
You have to admire the old turd's passion and perseverance in pushing his destructive agenda.
If we, in the right, would have had an old "conservative lion" all those years who would have counteracted the old "liberal lion", we would not find ourselves in the fix that we are today.
I hope it was painful for Teddy, but probably not. He was a murderer, a liar, and an evil man. Glad he is gone and burning in Hell!