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Ted Kennedy, the toothless lion is dead
The GOPnation.com ^ | August 26, 2009 | The GOPnation.com

Posted on 08/26/2009 5:17:57 AM PDT by bmweezer

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To: dools007
the epitomy of the spoiled rich kid who did bad things and got away with them.

Limousine liberalism is the most effective strategy ever discovered for being a fat, rich, blue-blood aristocrat and having the poor peasants admire them adoringly. The gimmick was probably discovered by a king long ago.

61 posted on 08/26/2009 6:33:32 AM PDT by Reeses (The fundamental obsession of leftists is size envy.)
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To: JRios1968

Agreed....Mary Jo did not have the opportunity to live her life...Ted Kennedy did. God is going to implement the plan He had for Ted Kennedy.


62 posted on 08/26/2009 6:35:07 AM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: MrB
I heard him lauded as a “champion of the poor and downtrodden” ....

Mother Teresa was a champion of the poor and downtrodden. Ted..... I'm not so sure. He could have dedicated some of his rather large family fortune to charitable acts, or trusts or foundations. Instead his version of helping the poor and downtrodden was picking my pocket and giving it to them, or government agencies.

63 posted on 08/26/2009 6:35:25 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: bmweezer

Title should read Obama receives crown.


64 posted on 08/26/2009 6:39:50 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: jude24
He was a liberal. That doesn't make him an enemy.

He was a crook and a broken human being who did much to harm our constitution and freedom. If that doesn't make someone an enemy, what does?

65 posted on 08/26/2009 6:47:14 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (There is no "O" in Transparency.)
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To: Little Ray; jude24; EricT.; Jeff Head
Some of the highlights of Kennedy's long career in the Senate, thanks to Roses of Sharon

Kennedy smears President Bush and our troops on the US Senate floor:

He described the Iraq war as a fraud “made up in Texas” as part of political strategy — accused the President of the US of “telling lie, after lie, after lie”, in order to go to war in Iraq.

Kennedy smears Judge Alito...Mrs. Alito in tears:

“In suggesting that Samuel Alito had belonged to a racist conservative group, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy relied heavily on an essay published by the organization that sounded like a bigoted rant. The essay, titled ‘In Defense of Elitism.....But the magazine’s editor at the time says the article was pure satire, a send-up of what liberals think conservatives think. He added quote, ‘I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them,”

Sen. Edward Kennedy Smears the Nation

“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.”

A speech on the Senate floor, May 10, 2004.

Kennedy’s smear of Judge Bork on the US Senator floor:

“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy....”

Kennedy betrays President Reagan:

May 14, 1983 document from the KGB archives reveals that Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) reached out to the General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, Yuri Andropov, to propose a kind of public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s defense policy initiatives toward the Soviet Union, policies that Kennedy felt were too aggressive.

66 posted on 08/26/2009 6:47:52 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: bmweezer

I don’t know that I’ll mourn his death, but may he rest in peace. I know he has a lot to repent and showed no mercy toward Mary Jo, but he’s in God’s hands now, and I hope he chose to repent and reflect in his last days.


67 posted on 08/26/2009 8:09:00 AM PDT by fortunecookie (Please pray for Anna, age 7, who waits for a new kidney.)
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To: jude24

“Shame on you. The man is dead. If you can’t say something polite and sympathetic, than shut up.”

You shut up. People have ther right to comment as they damned well please. He lived his life as he pleased and we are free to comment as we please. If Tedddy didn’t want to have his legacy as it is then he shouldn’t have lived the life he did.

Next thing you know you won’t want anything bad said about any other tyrant like Hitler, Stalin, or Pol Pot. Teddy was a tyrant to freedom in this country.


68 posted on 08/26/2009 8:34:16 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Redleg Duke

” Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot”

Wow, great minds think alike!


69 posted on 08/26/2009 8:36:02 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: jude24

“He was a liberal. That doesn’t make him an enemy.”

Yes, it does! Liberals want to take away our freedoms and you think that is something to respect???


70 posted on 08/26/2009 8:38:09 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: jude24
Shame on you. The man is dead. If you can’t say something polite and sympathetic, than shut up.

I don't think so. I grew up in an age where etiquette and manners meant something, but I draw the line at "politeness Nazis" without a clue, who can't even spell "then" properly.

I never fail to find sympathetic words at the passing of public persons I respect and admire. And when less than admirable persons die I simply remain silent.

But I could never fail as a human being by not expressing something at the passing of particularly evil egregiously bad lives.

This man was a drunkard, a womanizer, a coward and a cold-blooded killer, albeit with tons of inherited wealth. A total scumbag nonetheless. The details are available for anyone who has been on Mars for the last 45 years.

You forced me to elaborate, my intention was to keep it short:

Good riddance!

71 posted on 08/26/2009 2:17:45 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Obama Garden Club: Nothing but plants.)
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To: jude24
He was a liberal. That doesn't make him an enemy.

Strange, that you would choose that as his most noteworthy claim to fame.

He was also evil through and through, and some of us simply can't rely on our ethical blind spot and bad memory as easily as you seem to.

72 posted on 08/26/2009 2:28:13 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Obama Garden Club: Nothing but plants.)
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To: Noumenon

Why should we celebrate and eulogize those who would make slaves of us all?

45 posted on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:07:43 AM by Noumenon

I don’t and I can’t wait until Jimmy Carter jpins him.


73 posted on 08/26/2009 2:34:09 PM PDT by sport
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To: bmweezer

Any idea how long this will go on? I’m sick of it already!


74 posted on 08/26/2009 4:02:24 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Noumenon
I don’t think thee are any clouds where he’s going....

Good point.

75 posted on 08/26/2009 4:11:12 PM PDT by OpeEdMunkey (ObamaCare...there's some change ya didn't count on.)
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To: OpeEdMunkey

BUMP!


76 posted on 08/26/2009 8:50:08 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Obama Garden Club: Nothing but plants.)
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To: bmweezer; AirForceMom
Lion of the Senate

He was a lyin' SOB.

Look at his TV address to state of Massachusetts after Chappaquiddick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgL6BsLmyQ8


77 posted on 08/26/2009 9:11:12 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (I wonder why Solomon Ortiz (TX-27) is so afraid of talking with his constituents?)
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To: jude24
That's a religious belief Jude24 ~ a narrow sectarian belief in fact ~ not generally followed nor widely observed.

You don't want to say something bad about Kennedy then don't do so. No one is stopping you.

78 posted on 09/04/2009 12:52:45 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Sig Sauer P220

Sig: I do want to correct one statement I made - I said the Mass. police did nothing to prosecute him - however, he was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, paid a fine, and, I think, was on probation for a few months. However, he escaped what would easily have been a manslaughter charge if it were you or me. So my comment should have stated he was prosecuted, but for such a ridiculous offense that it amounted to nothing.


79 posted on 09/09/2009 3:25:05 PM PDT by majormaturity
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