[cicero2k]

I’ll never forget, in 1988 or so, Rush Limbaugh honoring influential women in US politics.

Of course, Mary Jo Kopechne was at the top of the list.

Probably for good reason.

Name a more influential female. Teddy would have been President in 1976 0r 1980 rather than Reagan? Cold War extended, or becomes hot?

[zencycler]

Let’s take Roosevelt off the dime and put on Mary Jo Kopechne in his place.

[riverdawg]

“Teddy would have been President in 1976 0r 1980 rather than Reagan? Cold War extended, or becomes hot?”

More likely that Ted would have capitulated to the Soviets on many important issues, especially arms control and nuclear deterrence. He tried to arrange a private meeting with Andropov, through his pal John Tunney, in 1983 in violation of diplomatic protocol and common sense.

[burroak]

To put Teddy’s presidential hopes in a nutshell, at the time, was put concisely by my father-in-law, “If you can’t get a whore over a bridge, you can’t be trusted to run the country.”

[Calvin Locke]

In the 1980 campaign, Ted was interviewed by CBS's Roger Mudd, in line to take over from Walter Cronkite.

Mudd asked Ted "Why do you want to be president?"

Ted couldn't respond coherently, and Dan Rather got the job because of the blowback on Mudd for daring to ask Ted a "hard" question that ended Ted's quest to fulfill his Nazi father's plan.

Ted Kennedy, Part 5: "Why do you want to be president?"

[mass55th]

"I’ll never forget, in 1988 or so, Rush Limbaugh ..."

Back when I first started listening to Rush, he cracked a joke that I've never forgotten. He said that Ted Kennedy should pick Billy Carter as his running mate so they could use the campaign slogan: "You drink, I'll drive."