Time to Read Uncle Ted the Riot Act? by Pat Norby, News Editor, The Catholic Spirit When Sen. Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloviating on Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore! his deplorable past. But now that he's become Sen. John Kerry's leading campaign attack dog, positioning himself as Washington's leading arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such indulgence are now over. It's time for the GOP to stand up and remind America why Sen. Kerry's chief spokesman had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 - time to say the words Mary Jo Kopechne out loud. As is often the case, Republicans have deluded themselves into thinking that most Americans already know the story of how this "Conscience of the Democratic Party" left Miss Kopechne behind to die in the waters underneath the Edgartown Bridge in July 1969, after a night of drinking and partying with the young blonde campaign worker. But most Americans under 40 have never heard that story, or details of how Kennedy swam to safety, then tried to get his cousin Joe Garghan to say he was behind the wheel. Those young voters don't know how Miss Kopechne, trapped inside Kennedy's Oldsmobile, gasped for air until she finally died, while the Democrats' leading Iraq war critic rushed back to his compound to formulate the best alibi he could think of. Neither does Generation X know how Kennedy was thrown out of Harvard on his ear 15 years earlier - for paying a fellow student to take his Spanish final. As they listen to the Democrats' "Liberal Lion" accuse President Bush of "telling lie after lie after lie" to get America to go to war in Iraq, young voters don't know about that notorious 1991 Easter weekend in Palm Beach, when Uncle Teddy rounded up his nephews for a night on the town, an evening that ended with one of them credibly accused of rape. It's time for Republicans to state unabashedly that they will no longer "go along with the gag" when it comes to Uncle Ted's rants about deception and moral turpitude inside the Bush White House. The Democratic Party, not to mention Sen. John Kerry, should be ashamed to have the national disgrace from Massachusetts as their spokesman. And the GOP needs to say so out loud. I remember all of this and I'm sure you do, too. So what do you say, time to Read Uncle Ted the Riot Act?
Although I wasn't around back then, I have heard some of this story before. It brings me to once again ask the question, if a man like Ted Kennedy can not only stay out of jail, but remain in one of the most distinguished offices in America, is it so far-fetched to believe that a Swift Boat Captain in Vietnam can use his connections to this same family to be decorated undeservedly. Sorry for wandering off the topic, but I just finished watch the interview on Fox with the one of the Swift Boat Vets who made the anti-Kerry commercial. Back to Ted. I laughed the other day when I read Ms. Kerry once decribed Kennedy as a "bastard". Of course, she was Ms. Heinz in those days. Certainly Ted has not changed his ways, I guess Ms. Kerry has changed her mind of what a "bastard" really is. Changing their minds seems to be what the Heinz-Kerry clan is all about, I suppose. It's long past time Kennedy was exposed for what he really his, unfortunately, he is able to hide behind his last name, which is still equated to royalty by many Americans.
Well, yes . . . it is a totally farfetched, speculative, election-year rumor, but you are entitled to imagine anything. I imagine that Kerry didn't go to Vietnam at all. He used his family influence to send Herman Munster to fight in his place. But Herman earned that Silver Star fairly! Yeah, that sounds good. Is it so far-fetched to believe it? Repeat after me. Munster did it . . . Munster did it . . . :yelwink2:
Never denied he was there. Although you might have gotten me had you said Lurch went in his place. They do kind of favor. :thumb: All Kerry has to support his medals are the accounts he himself wrote up and the testimony of a couple of his friends. So he pulled a guy from the water. I give him credit for that. Like has been said many times before, it is a theme of the US Military to leave no one on the field of battle, particularly someone who is alive. How many soldiers have carried someone off the field of battle under fire? Did they all get Silver Stars. Medals Kerry wrote up the accounts of and submitted himself. I want more than that.
