My name is Mary Jo Kopechne. I would have been 65 years of age this year. Read about me and my killer below: When Sen. Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloating on Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore his deplorable past. But now that he's become a leading Republican 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 this 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. Or why the US Army denied him a commission because he cheated on tests. 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. And if the Republicans don't, let's do it ourselves by passing this forgotten disgrace around the Internet to wake up memories of what a fraud and fake Teddy really is. The Democratic Party should be ashamed to have the national disgrace from Massachusetts as their spokesman.=
i would like if when you post an email forward, you would label it that way so i would know it wasnt sabanfan talking. i believe most of what sabanfan says, but the email forwards you post are right only randomly. so this may all be true, but i dont trust it to have any real value.
Teddy has been a lecherous fool for decades. So what's new? Certainly not this old political memo from the last campaign. Let's see, . . . so since Teddy was a lying, cowardly, sack of chit 40 years ago, George Bush couldn't possibly have lied to us today? Oldsmobile Ted has absolved Dubya of all sins. Brilliant! What didn't I see it before? :hihi:
Dubya didn't kill anybody. I'm always amazed, whenever I see Teddy on TV, that he has the audacity to preach to anyone.
It is true. Particularly about Mary Jo. I remember the event. Kennedy drove the car off the bridge, then left the scene of the accident, with Mary Jo still in the car, so he could sober up. He did not turn himself in until the next day. But he was a Kennedy and no action was taken by authorities. I was not aware of the Harvard incident, but I do recall his nephew being arrested for rape. Like all Kennedys, he got away with it.
Not at all. But if someone is going to accuse Bush of lying, it sure as blazes should not be Kennedy.
i only know the basics of the story, but what i do know is sabanfan will post anything, so i dont trust any of those extra-damning details. but i dislike kennedy without that stuff already.
I'm amazed that this kind of thing can be made into a partisan issue. The lack of consequences suffered by Kennedy is not a matter of him being a democrat, but rather being a member of an elite family. People in high places get out of all kinds of things everyday. Why is this being relayed as if it's groundbreaking? Hypocrisy? Lies? Cover-ups? In politics?!?! For shame!!!:rofl: W still sucks. No amount of what anyone else has done before can take away from that. Funny thing, though. Ted Kennedy is an ardent supporter of dubya's immigration 'policy.' Next.
