Ted Kennedy: The Senator of Sleaze who was a drunk sexual bully... and left a young woman to die

Senator Edward 'Ted' Kennedy stood for sleaze. Bloated and drunken, he used his standing in the Kennedy clan to chase vulnerable women - which brought his dream of reaching the White House to a shameful end.

Incredibly, he was in line to inherit his brother John F. Kennedy's legendary presidency, but his chances were dashed following the drowning of the pretty, young campaign assistant Mary Jo Kopechne.

Forever known as the Chappaquiddick Incident after the Massachusetts island where it took place, the scandal in 1969 broke the Kennedy grip on the White House.

A drunk Ted had been driving back from a party to the family 'compound' on Martha's Vineyard when he veered off a bridge and into a deep tidal dyke.

Drowned: Mary Jo Kopechne was killed after Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge with her inside

Mary Jo was in the back seat and, while he claimed he was just giving her a lift back to her hotel, it was widely thought that he had picked her up for sex. Kennedy swam ashore to save himself, but left Mary Jo to drown - in fact, it was even worse than that.

It was nine hours before he reported the accident. In the meantime, he walked back to his motel, complained to the manager about a noisy party, took a shower, went to sleep, ordered newspapers when he woke up and spoke to a friend and two lawyers before finally calling the police.

SHE DID NOT DROWN. She lived for hours, using up the oxygen in an air pocket in the overturned car. There was no water in her lungs. She died a slow, painful death by asphyxiation.

Most important: She was alive during the hours Kennedy spent walking past a house with a light on, calling lawyers, fabricating an alibi (which failed when the car was discovered), etc.

I have been predicting that Archbishop Sean O’Malley would be discovered hiding in a linen closet the week of Kennedy’s funeral. I was wrong. Archbishop O’Malley will be in Denver, for “a family wedding.” I wonder whose family in Denver was recruited to “invite” O’Malley.

Meanwhile, the priests at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston are all a-twitter, hosting the “Catholic” funeral of the most famous baby-murderer in the world.

SHE DID NOT DROWN. She lived for hours, using up the oxygen in an air pocket in the overturned car. There was no water in her lungs. She died a slow, painful death by asphyxiation.

Most important: She was alive during the hours Kennedy spent walking past a house with a light on, calling lawyers, fabricating an alibi (which failed when the car was discovered), etc.

Meanwhile, the priests at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston are all a-twitter, hosting the “Catholic” funeral of the most famous baby-murderer in the world.

Conservatives have been betrayed by the Republican Party.
When the Department of Education was created during the Carter administration, GOP politicians pledged to dismantle it when they got into power. Now they have not only doubled the size of the department, but they have also passed the No Child Left Behind Act. Republicans also promised to reduce government spending and to reduce the size and scope of the federal government, but instead of doing what they had promised to do, they created the worst budget deficit in American history and wasted no time in spending as much as they could as fast as they could. They promised to reform welfare, but apparently their idea of reform is to expand the welfare state through “faith-based” programs and prescription drug entitlements. They criticized Clinton for NAFTA, but they saw no problem in pushing through DR-CAFTA once they were the ones in control. Their loyalty to the American middle class was quickly replaced by a convenient mass epiphany of the new possibilities that economic and political globalism brings. National sovereignty has also been deemed to be of lesser importance than it was when the Democrats were in power. According to the GOP, the UN is a worthless and ineffective organization that is a threat to American sovereignty, but apparently it is credible enough to use UN Security Council resolutions as an excuse to bypass our own constitution to start wars with third-world nations. The party that supposedly opposes big government has bought into the statism of the Bush administration. The GOP used to care about the rights and liberties of American citizens, but they now use scare tactics to silence these same people, so that they can push through unconstitutional and tyrannical legislation, such as the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act. There is now no conservative party represented in Washington. The federal government is now run by big-government Democrats and big-government Republicans.

Given this betrayal of conservatives by their own party and president, why doesn’t a greater portion of the GOP base wake up and see what is going on here? It is party loyalty that blinds them. Part of what Republicans campaigned on in 2000 was criticizing Clinton’s interventionist aggressive wars, but only because Clinton was a Democrat. In Somalia, Bosnia, and Kosovo, Republicans were the first ones to criticize Clinton, but the reason they didn’t take a strong stand against these wars is the same reason the Democrats won’t do the same with Iraq. They wanted to “support our troops”. Cliches such as this are designed to distract Americans from failed policies. It was the Clinton Democrats who began this escalation towards war against Iraq with the Iraqi Liberation Act in 1998. If Iraq had been another “Clinton war”, as it very well may have been if there were not a two-term limit, I guarantee that the Republicans would be calling for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq as the Democrats are doing now. The fact that these two parties behave the same way should be a clear indicator that perhaps there really is not much of a difference between them. Republicans are sticking by an incompetent and dishonest president out of party loyalty. That is the same reason that they accept substandard journalism from The Fox News Channel. Accepting propoganda has become preferable to accepting reality. As much as the GOP continues to betray its base, they will still maintain many loyal supporters who buy into the illusion of legitimacy. These people would vote for Hitler if he ran as a Republican and told people that he talks to Jesus, while waving a big American flag and scaring people with propaganda about terrorists and secularists who threaten our American way of life. Out of the presidential candidates currently seeking the Republican nomination, the only one who isn’t a fake is Ron Paul. John McCain summed up the GOP’s problem nicely in a debate in which he said that the Republicans “Came to change Washington, but Washington changed us.” Ron Paul responded truthfully, “Washington didn’t change me.” His record in his ten terms in Congress confirm the truthfulness of that statement. I think it’s time for Republicans to show some integrity and put these impostors out of a job, and elect honest people like Congressman Ron Paul.

His brothers got away with it, but Ted Kennedy's divorce removed the last bounds of shame and he plunged into a life that left him looking like a Saturday night drunk, waving a bottle and calling for any woman who could tolerate him. He staggered from scandal to scandal, reduced to fodder for lurid ' supermarket' tabloid newspapers. One congressional aide, just 16, told of being propositioned by Kennedy from the back seat of his limousine in Capitol Hill. She testified that he leaned from the window, waved a wine bottle and asked whether she or a friend she was with wanted to join him.
He reeked of drink by nine in the morning and could be relied on to be bawling drunk at four in the afternoon. In Washington's top La Brasserie restaurant, he once threw a waitress over a table in a private room and tried to have sex with her.
His face, once handsome, became as round as a football, bloated and criss-crossed with the broken veins of an out-of-control drinker.
Remarkably, he held on to his political clout and his legislative skills. He won re-election after reelection, dying in office as America's second-longest serving senator.

He was also responsible - or credited by the Left - for an unrivalled body of 'liberal' legislation. He reformed immigration and labour laws, supported 'pro-choice' abortion rights, voted for tougher gun laws and against the Iraq war, and supported gay marriage.

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I know you have been banned already, but just in case you decide to come back and see what people here think of you, read this.

You are a worthless pile of steaming donkey excrement. You lay around in the basement of your parent’s (probably don’t have a daddy) home, posting on sites like DU, KOS and HUFFPO. You brag about all the “buddies” you have on the Internet, but don’t realize that no one knows you are a just a lazy bum. You couldn’t pour liquid human excrement out of a boot with instructions written on the top, bottom and both sides. People like you should be in a straight jacket on the way to a prison.

There are other people with your IQ currently serving in the US Congress. Just look at the (d) side of the aisle, and you are probably at the top of the IQ list. The swimmer teddy is probably your true political hero, since he is stoned most of the day. Either he is or Robert KKK Byrd may be. Or are you more on the SAN FRAN NAN side? Maybe B Hussein O is your leftwing hero.

Did you have a few too many snorts of cocaine with your Tequila this morning? Why don’t you go to the local office and collect your stinking food stamps and go buy your liquor and cigarettes for the week? Druggies like you should not be allowed anywhere near a computer. That can be dangerous, since you may accidently access a porn site and that could affect your IQ even worse at your age.

Just leave us alone to have our intelligent political discussion. Well, you don’t know what intelligence is, which is evident by your totally ignorant initial post. What is with liberals like you? You have to mess up the Internet with your whiny, juvenile ideas. I know first graders who have much more intellect than you exhibited with your little rant. There is nothing that indicates any amount of intelligence.

Does your mommy know you are alone with her computer? You should be banned from ever being allowed anywhere near any electronics again, since you may accidently shock yourself. Well, that could do some good and ensure you never reproduce any offspring. Go back to doing what you Dummies do best – trash anyone you disagree with and praise the idiot democrats who hate America.

Whatever the case, you should never be allowed to vote in any election. It takes some understanding of politics to understand that every candidate and his or her supporters agree with and have the courage to ensure that agenda is good for America.

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