Ted Kennedy, the last of the Kennedy brothers, died today from brain cancer. Expect a media frenzy, heaping accolades on the “Lion of the Senate.”
My reaction when I heard the news upon awaking this morning?
Ted Kennedy lived 40 years longer than Mary Jo Kopechne, whom he abandoned to drown to death, trapped in the car that inebriated Ted drove off a bridge into the waters of Chappaquiddick Island on July 18, 1969. Mary Jo was 29 years old. Ted lived to the ripe old age of 77.
Throughout his long career in the Senate, Ted Kennedy was also a forceful advocate of abortion. He repeatedly voted against all attempts to stop taxpayer financing of abortions and opposed the ban on partial-birth abortions.
Nominally a Catholic, I hope for the sake of his immortal soul that Mr. Kennedy confessed and expressed remorse for his many many sins of murder — of Mary Jo Kopechne and the millions of aborted human lives.
Here’s Rush Limbaugh on Ted Kennedy, from Rush’s website:
RUSH: I want to close here by repeating part of my eulogy that I gave in the first hour to Ted Kennedy. The left is going to exploit him, they’re going to exploit his death, they’re going to exploit his legacy to push health care through. But the greatest tribute would be that every American, every man, every woman and child would get the same health care options that Ted Kennedy got. Tedcare for all, forever. Will there be a single liberal to come forward and embrace Senator Kennedy’s example of seeking and securing the best medical care available? Ted Kennedy, lion of the Senate, the United States government was never a partner in his death. Obama, remember, said that we are God’s partners in matters of life and death to the rabbis. Ted Kennedy never invited any bureaucrats into the decision-making process.
There are lessons to be learned in life and death. Senator Kennedy’s last days and his death are a powerful manifestation of the survival instinct, of the will, the spirit to live. God bestowed on each of us the miracle of life. It’s a gift that is personal, and it is priceless. The suggestion that a partnership between government and God in life and death is vulgar, it’s a debasement of life. It’s un-American. Ted Kennedy’s passing is a powerful reminder of the respect and dignity of the intensely personal will to live we all possess. The state was excluded from that part of Ted Kennedy’s life speaks well of the country and government that Ted Kennedy was elected to serve, and to put his name on a health care bill to try to ramrod a health care bill through in his name, in his honor, that does not honor the will to live, is hypocrisy and insulting. To pass and ramrod a health care bill in his name that would deprive people, by its existence, by virtue of law, that would deprive people of the health care he got, that’s the most insulting thing the left could do, and they’re not even aware of it. 
Agree with this one………..Now going OT Just saw this post of Sarah’s facebook the Guy is good and really worth the watch its a riot and we could us some humor!
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=122427293787&ref=mf
Thanks, Sal, for the video tip! I just posted it on Gio’s World
May God have mercy on his immortal soul.
The left will use any means necessary to pass their deathcare bill. Have no fear that Kennedy will be their beacon call on this one.
“I cherished his confidence and momentous support in my race for the presidency,” Obama said. “And even as he waged a valiant struggle with a mortal illness, I’ve profited as president from his encouragement and wisdom.”
Classy as usual Mr. President…
Why is it always about himself?
Gio-
Gio,
For someone who is so grandiose as to imagine himself as “partnering with God,” it really is always about WeeWee Obama!
Eowyn,
When I saw the following quote last night I almost brought up my dinner.
“We are God’s partners in matters of life and death.” President Barrack Hussein Obama, Blasphemer-in-Chief
Gio-
God doesn’t need to “partner” with anyone, least of all with WeeWee Obama!
Screw that comment…I can’t take that POS any more, he disgusts more and more every day.
The Lion…Err Dog of the Senate.
“Teddy Kennedy was the weak kitten in the litter, never able to measure up to his brothers.
The accident at Chappaquiddick displayed his chronic immaturity. One problem Teddy has always had was keeping it in his pants – even when other people are around.”
- Cleo O’Donnell – wife of former Kennedy campaign aide.
Check out my take, and stick around for more good content.
http://libertarianhumor.com/2009/08/26/the-lion-err-dog-of-the-senate/
Most writers have the essential component of the Kennedy-Chappaquiddick saga wrong.
Mary Jo Kopechne did NOT drown. She in fact suffocated. The woman perished while trapped in the submerged Oldsmobile sedan while under water in a dark tidal pond. It was long ago figured that Kopechne survived for at least an hour or more after the crash by breathing from an air pocket. No matter how it’s sliced, that has to be a tough way to die.
With a little detective work it has been figured that the real Chappaquiddick story was fundamentally different from the extensive lie promoted by Kennedy himself. Facts strongly suggest that Kopechne disappeared from the party at an earlier time. She’d mentioned to more than one person that cigarette smoke and the stuffy atmosphere at the cottage were making her feel ill. It was figured that Mary Jo Kopechne after making her way outside, found the unlocked Oldsmobile 4-door sedan, laid down across the back seat and fell asleep. There was no conspiracy or plot involved. It was a matter of simple happenstance.
Later that night, the routinely drunk Teddy Kennedy left the party with another woman, got behind the wheel of the Oldsmobile and aimed the car in the direction of the beach road. Kennedy, with one other person in the front and another laying down on the back seat only made it as far as the narrow Dike Bridge. With his driving skills impaired, Kennedy lost control and drove the car off the bridge and into the Chappaquiddick – Poucha tidal pond.
Perhaps it was the cold ocean water that helped Kennedy sober up enough to escape along with the mystery woman front seat passenger. It is believed that Kennedy did not know that another person was in that car. Kennedy made it back on foot to some point where he was able to make contact with his political minions. Somehow, the operatives got him over to the main island of Martha’s Vineyard, where Kennedy was checked into a motel. Records later showed that numerous phone calls were made back and forth from Kennedy’s room telephone all during the night. He was later seen, in the early morning, having breakfast at the motel coffee shop while casually chatting with other guests.
Meanwhile, local police had discovered in the tidal pond, the now partially exposed Oldsmobile sedan. Upon closer examination, the body of a young woman was found in a corner area near the rear window. Artificial respiration was carried out, but Mary Jo Kopechne could not be revived. Noticed at the time, was that no water could found in the woman’s lungs. Early on, it was figured that Kopechne had not drowned but instead had suffocated. Despite Massachusetts state law, no autopsy was ever performed on Mary Jo Kopechne’s body to discover the true cause of death.
Kennedy’s later contrived story had him at the risk of his own life “diving repeatedly in an effort to save Miss Kopechne”. At the time, innumerable Massachusetts residents, including me, were outraged. Political stooges had taken depraved actions of the drunk miscreant Teddy Kennedy and spun the homicidal debacle into a performance of heroism.
Despite all, the contemptible Teddy Kennedy was elected again and again to the United States Senate by the people of Massachusetts. To this day, I have been unable to find anybody who even admits to having voted for Kennedy.
No doubt, the entire federal election system along with congress and senate needs a good strong enema. Perhaps with Kennedy’s final flush into the sewer pipe of history, the great cleansing can now begin.
Jim,
You’re right about Mary Jo Kopeche dying from suffocation in the increasingly diminishing air bubble of Kennedy’s submerged car. See my post, “The Truth About Ted Kennedy,” on this blog: http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/the-truth-about-ted-kennedy/
It was estimated that it probably took 2 to 3 hours for her to die — slowly, agonizingly, suffocatingly.
As for your alternative account of what happened, this is the first I’ve read about it. Do you have a source? Thanx.
Also, since no one you spoke to would admit they voted for TK, how could this POS be re-elected again and again to the Senate for 40+ years?