| Ted Kennedy has died after a long battle against brain cancer. While this site - and many Americans - will not mourn this loss, we still extend our condolences to Kennedy's family. Losing a brother, uncle, cousin or friend is never easy and we pray that Kennedy's family will find comfort in their time of sorrow. With that being said, Kennedy's death drops from the scene one of the more horrific and needlessly glorified politicians of the past forty years. If ANY of his brothers would have outlived him, Ted's political career would have been moribund at best. However, after one brother died in World War II and two were assassinated, it fell to Ted to carry the Kennedy mantle, something that the media was more than willing to help accomplish. Never very bright in his own right, as compared to his brothers, the youngest of Rose and Joseph Kennedy's children went to Washington as a Senator in 1962 and never left. While his first term in Washington was remembered more for him playing the role of mourning brother, the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident involving Kennedy and the death of one Mary Jo Kopechne, forever soured Kennedy to at least half the country, who saw him as nothing more than a murderer. Despite this, Kennedy moved on by being one of the Senate's most liberal members and course, by being a Kennedy. To recount all of the scandals of Goodyear Head Ted would take months, but suffice it to say that they could have kept the press busy for decades, if the liberal media were ever to develop an interest in covering scandals involving liberals, that is. Two incidents from his life stand out, however. The night at Chappaquiddick when he, boozed up to the point where his blood couldn’t be used for recipients below the age of 21, was driving home with a young intern in his car, only to drive off a bridge in his drunken stupor. Heroically, he managed to get himself out of the car and then, instead of stopping by a nearby house to call for help, ran off like the craven coward he was to hide out in his hotel room until he could get a hold of his lawyers. Meanwhile, Mary Jo Kopechne died a slow death of suffocation in an air bubble inside the submerged vehicle. For this, liberals, never very consistent on (or even vaguely familiar with) the concept of “justice” rewarded him by electing and re-electing him Senator for the rest of his entirely useless life. Later on, doubtlessly in a desperate attempt to leave a mark on history other than having single-handedly kept the liquor industry booming, he offered to the Soviet Union assistance with getting the United States to disarm themselves in return for help in undermining the Reagan Administration, an Administration that would later become known for having destroyed the Soviet Union and ending four decades of Americans and Western Europeans living in fear of nuclear annihilation. The Russians told him to go screw himself. Thereafter, with his goal of following his brother into the White House gone, Kennedy continued to serve in the Senate, nine terms in all, became known as the Lion of the Senate and continued his push for more liberal, socialized programs. In between, Kennedy divorced his wife, became a drunk, and from time to time was caught having fun with women who were the age of his children. For the past decade, Kennedy's main push has been for universal health care, which if passed, he would have been excluded from, but which he had deemed appropriate for the masses. No doubt Kennedy's death will give President Obama one last weapon in his push for ObamaCare. Of course, only with Democratic presidents could one put forth the death of an old, rich, murdering Senator who sought private and experiential treatments to extend his life, and try to make that death a rallying cry for socialized medicine, which would have excluded the type of treatments that Kennedy's sought and received. Ted Kennedy, RIP
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