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[KarlInOhio]

Mark Steyn: To the left, ideological purity trumps all

But ideological purity doesn't trump everything for the left. Power trumps purity. Take Clinton (please) for example. He was not an ideologically pure leftist. He could play the middle ground by supporting things like welfare reform. Both this and his personal problems were forgivable because he brought money and power to the left.

[moyden]

What I find creepy about the Clymer/Pierce line on Miss Kopechne is its careless assumption of her disposability.

Liberals are evil.

[Madame Dufarge]

I lived on Cape Cod, and one day my sister and brother-in-law visited us.

We took the ferry to Martha's Vineyard and retraced Kennedy's steps from the Chappaquidick Bridge.

I can't swim, but I think I could have held my breath long enough to duck under, open the door and rescue Mary Jo. It wasn't like the car was 100 feet under water.

According to Kennedy, ignoring this obvious option, he then ran past at least a half dozen houses to the Edgartown Channel, which he heroically swam across to seek help (the next morning).

This story was so full of holes that you could drive a truck through it, when you actually were there and saw with your own eyes the reality of it, I thought my BIL was going to have a "cardiac event."

He ranted all the way on the ferry back to Cape Cod and hasn't been right since.

That the Kennedy sycophants would actually be twisting this as a net benefit for Mary Jo begs for a whole new definition of "disgust," referenced only by a picture of the esteemed Senator from Massachusetts.

There are no words that could adequately define it.

[KC_Conspirator]

This was the line taken by The New York Times' Adam Clymer in his definitive hagiography of "the leading senator of our time." If the name seems vaguely familiar, it may be because you're sitting on it.

I love Stein.

[Cicero]

"If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age."

Unbelievable, even for these left-wing vampires. Just unbelievable. Good God, these people aren't even human.

[Madame Dufarge]

Red Kennedy Meat.

[Billthedrill]

Pierce and Clymer really wrote that stuff and published it? I am speechless.

[billorites]

The Kennedy family exemplifies dissipation.

The earlier generations snuffed their girlfriends.

It's all that the current generation can do to manage and kill themselves.

[Dane]

"If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age."

Whew it seems that the whole Miss Cleo Boston Globe editorial board went hog wild.

Liberals pompously think they are the all knowing about "what if" situations.

All one has to do is to listen to their "what if" rants, and see in reality that they are basically Miss Cleo's with $150 haircuts.

[lepton]

Thought you might like to read this Mark Steyn commentary.

[fporretto]

I think Mark Steyn has just set a new high-water mark for columnists everywhere, including himself.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit The Palace Of Reason:
http://www.palaceofreason.com

[Congressman Billybob]

Thank you for posting this. I have just sent a copy of this Steyn piece, obviously written in a cold fury, to the host of "American Breakfast." I feel reasonably certain he will use it tomorrow on the show, and that the reaction of most of our listeners will also be a cold fury that any alleged human being who could write or publish such a statement is unfit to be in the news business, or perhaps any other business except morgue attendant.

Congressman Billybob

Click for latest column on UPI, "Three Anti-Endorsements" (Now up on UPI wire, and FR.)

As the politician formerly known as Al Gore has said, Buy my book, "to Restore Trust in America"

[Nick Danger]

in the wake of Democrat accusations that the Bush tax cut would go to "the richest one per cent." Time asked poll respondents whether they themselves were in the top one per cent: 19% said they were

See, this is what they get for hosing the schools. They thought they would get a dumbed-down populace that would believe their lies, but they get this instead. Bwaa ha ha.

[lorrainer]

"If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age."

This is obscene. Charles Pierce IS a major-league Clymer. I am amazed that there are any democrat women. Sheesh.

[aBootes]

"If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age."

Genuinely disturbing. Hope this line finds its way to a suitably large number of conservative OP-ED pages, blogs, talk radio, etc., etc.

[Stallone]

BRILLIANT!

[Stallone]

BRILLIANT!

[Leisler]

"This was one of those big ol' butt-numbing magazine profiles, which only reaches the reader after it's spent weeks working its way up through the deputy assistant copy-editor and the assistant deputy copy-editor and all the rest of the fine tooth-combers the American press employs to drain all the life out of their publications. "

The Boston Globe, now owened by the New York Times. The Globe, home of the bow-tied bumkissers.

[Pokey78]

Thanks!

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