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I was born in 1970, and while my mom and dad apparently proudly supported Carter in 1980 (they received a letter from the White House, signed by him), my mom was staunchly anti-Ted Kennedy, and taught me about Mary Jo Kopechne. The entire situation reminds me of this quote from "A Few Good Men" (edited below for, well, reasons). I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for S̶a̶n̶t̶i̶a̶g̶o̶ Mary Jo, and you curse the m̶a̶r̶i̶n̶e̶s̶ conservatives. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That S̶a̶n̶t̶i̶a̶g̶o̶ Mary Jo's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. It surely saved the United States from a Ted Kennedy presidency. And, for that, we owe her a truly irreparable debt.

8 posted on 03/29/2018 6:10:42 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')

I will tell a stupid story. It is what I do.

Back in about ‘80 I was going to a Halloween costume party with my wife. She was pregnant and didn’t want to dress in an elaborate costume like we had the previous year at this party. I stumbled around and found a snorkel, mask and flippers for her, she put on a white loose dress and angel wings, I dawned a Ted Kennedy mask and we went a Mary Jo and Ted.