There has been a lot of hot air blown about over the past few days. My original plan to stay silent (not that anyone cares one way or the other) has fallen aside the groveling coverage of MSM of his life.
The man was a self-absorbed hypocrite, a liberal that lived only for the accumulation of power. (Is that redundant?)
Andrew Breitbart has this to say:
Forty years have passed since Chappaquiddick. Immediately after the accident, Mr. Kennedy scrambled to organize the best and brightest to save his career, rather than to save the life of 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne.
Before the facts were gathered, as her family was being prepped for a cash payoff, the Massachusetts voter – in “shock” and “denial,” the beginning phases of Elizabeth Kubler–Ross’s grief cycle – was asked by the senator in a carefully constructed televised speech to look away from his misdeed in the name of his family’s recent tragedies.
In a time of grief, the young senator framed his future as a referendum on Camelot. And the media didn’t call him on it. The fix was in.
The result was Mr. Kennedy needn’t do more than show up for work to atone for his calculated selfishness. Without apology or contrition, Mr. Kennedy crafted a public career in which he spent taxpayers’ money – certainly not his own – to make up for his unspeakable behavior.
As long as he toed the liberal line, this trust-fund Robin Hood was
protected by the liberal masses and the mainstream media. Hollywood did its job by not putting his story on the big screen.
While Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment,” has become a tag line for many writers, her death is but one – albeit perhaps the worst – of many crimes.
Kennedy was one of the most dangerous people on Capital Hill. I would rank him in the top five of the worst. (Other “honorees” include John Murtha, Chris Dodd, Charley Rangel, and Nancy Pelosi.)
He decried “incivility” when conservatives questioned him, but he was the man who destroyed Robert Bork’s nomination.
He pushed for burdening American people with unsustainable requirements for “green” energy, and personally scuttled a wind electrical generating station several miles off the coast line of Cape Cod because it would “spoil” his view.
He “fought” to socialize medicine (being rich enough to never have to worry about his own care) and refused to consider requiring members of Congress to enroll in the health care plan they foist on Americans.
There are many many examples like this. Like so many northeastern Limousine Liberals, Kennedy espoused one set of rules for the proletariat while deeming himself about such limitations.
Someone said the day of his death that they “Were glad he was gone from the Senate, but would have preferred he leave a different way.” I suspect this will prove more prophetic than we realize.
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