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Skriven 2006-01-19 11:03:06 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Kennedy Legacy
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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 un der 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 c heated 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.

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In addition to Mary Jo, Kennedy, in 1984 fathered an illegitimate child while
still married.  The woman was paid off to remain silent, and has been paid
regularly since then.  This is according to news reports on WLS Radio in
Chicago this morning.  This has all come to light after the vicious attacks by
Kennedy on Judge Alito during the Senate confirmation hearing of Judge Alito
for the Supreme Court nomination.

If there is any man in America who deserves excoriation and ridicule its Teddy
Kennedy.  No honor, no integrity, no morals, a murderer, and a drunk.  That is
the kind of person that the Democrats exalt and put in positions of leadership.
 Now wonder there is so much corruption in Washington.

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