Mary Jo Kopechne, R.I.P.: Ted Kennedy, Deceased (as of today)--A Killer Elected to the U.S.Senate

To me, that is the legacy of Edward Kennedy: A young woman gasping for air in a car filling with water, ultimately floating dead in a dark , silent, underwater world. No rescuers fighting to save her. No one there at all. Because, while Mary Jo Kopechne was dying in the underwater tomb Ted Kennedy had created for her by driving her off of a Massachusetts bridge, on the way to some kind of assignation (probably drunk), that same Kennedy was consulting his LAWYERS/AIDES. See Wikipedia.


Kennedy, of course, was a "Kennedy of Massachusetts". So he would receive only a two month suspended sentence for "leaving the scene of an accident and failing to report same". He should probably have had to face charges of involuntary manslaughter, but he was a "Kennedy of Massachusetts", and even then a darling of the HYPOCRITES of the left. You will note that what Kennedy did to Mary Jo Kopechne was WORSE than anything CIA agents are now accused by the Obama Administration, or the rest of the left, of doing to TERRORISTS. For brain damaged, hypocritical people on the left (Keith Olbermann, for instance, who was ready to lynch VP Cheney for a REPORTED hunting accident that killed no one), Ted Kennedy broke "the law". He admitted breaking "the law". The left a woman dying or dead, and worried about himself rather than her.


Does anyone doubt the magnitude of the hypocrisy on the left? Ted Kennedy was not only continually elected to the Senate, after this, by the leftist voters of Massachusetts, but he was seriously talked about (and ran, briefly) as President of the United States. The hypocrites in the mainstream media had little problem with that.


Meanwhile, the mainstream media, leftists in general, and some hypocritical Republicans, were demanding that Larry Craig resign because he allegedly played footsie with a male undercover cop in a bathroom. These industrial grade HYPOCRITES of the left kept saying that Craig broke "the law" (pleading guilty to "disturbing the peace"--like a traffic ticket). Craig of course, killed no one, and left no one to die alone in a watery grave. Then there are those demands for Republicans to resign because of adultery (which no one doubts Kennedy committed on multiple occasions--beyond leaving a Young girl to die after he drove her off of a bridge).


Nope. For any of you who expected a "respectful" obituary of Ted Kennedy from me as a "lion of the Senate", you are not going to get it. I can't get past that image of a dead girl floating in that silent, underwater car as Ted Kennedy sought to save his own skin, and political career. I can feel sorry for those who loved Ted Kennedy, and their loss. I can't feel any respect for the man himself.


My image of Ted Kennedy was best illustrated by Don Imus, who used to have a regular radio skit about Kennedy. He would supposedly have Ted Kennedy as a "guest" on this program, to give some kind of a presentation. A Kennedy imitator would then start speaking. When the speaker said a word connected in any way with "water", there would be a screech of brakes and a sound of a car crashing through a barrier. Then you would only here "glug, gllug, glug"), along with the Kennedy voice cursing Imus.


Imus got it right. The voters of Massachusetts got it wrong. It is an indictment of them that they kept electing this man to the United States Senate.