Posted on 06/26/2004 3:39:01 PM PDT by cpforlife.org
Subject: Mary Jo Kopechne
Hello 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 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. 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, 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 most of you do, too.
Roger E. Mundinger Houston, TX. w5rem@juno.com
I keep the date in my calendar.
May Mary Jo rest in peace.
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It was negligent homocide, not first degree murder. I'm not sure that what he did wasn't worse than first degree murder because the woman died due to Kennedy's cowardice; he obviously has been living with guilt ever since, which I have no sympathy for, and that guilt is exemplified in his own behavior with respect to alcohol.
He should have been convicted in Edgartown shortly after this incident; the Sheriff there tried to deal with him in the proper manner, but you know what they say about Kennedy wealth and influence.
And to this day the fat bastard hasn't even apologized to her family.
Amen!
I don't believe that, and never will. You have to have a conscience to feel guilt.
As far as trying to split hairs about whether or not it was intentional, in my eyes, it was murder.... pure and simple.
Amen.
Mary Jo Kopechne was a cousin of a friend of mine in high school.
Her nose was stuck in an air pocket. When she was autopsied (sp), she had a cup of water in her lungs. She didn't drown, she suffocated. She was in the back seat. Her hands curled like claws on the upper front seat of the car. It looked like she expected to be saved.
I wonder if he feels any guilt. Kennedys never seem to feel much guilt for anything they do, not the one who was raping the babysitter either.
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This should be read on the floor of the Senate.
She was found with her nose pointed into the rear seat foot well, where a rear seat passenger's heels would be located when sitting normally in the car, but in this situation, it was the last, highest reservoir of air in the car.
The car was inverted, tail end up.
Her fingers were curled over the lower front lip of the rear seat bottom. Thus, she was trying to hold herself, her nose, in that pocket of air.
At the minimum, she lived 40 minutes. At the maximum, possibly 5 hours.
Now, if we could only bring the sycophantic 'GEN X'ers, GEN Y'ers and GEN Z'ers' into the know about:
'HANOI" JOHN KERRY & HIS 'DISSERVICE' TO VETS AFTER NAM
'HANOI' JANE FONDA AND HER SUPPORT OF KERRY AND HIS VVAW ORG AND ANTI-AMERICAN SENTIMENT DURING (AND AFTER) VIET NAM
SEN. ROBERT "SHEETS" BYRD (D-W VA) AND HIS PREVIOUS AFFLIATION WITH THE KKK
...........anyone have others??
Ted Kennedy's cousin, Joe Gargan, is culpable in having left the scene of a crime.
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