Happy Belated Birthday, Mary Jo
Friends and fellow Americans,
A couple of months ago, from her grave, I thought I heard
Mary Jo Kopechne (July 26 1940 - July 18 1969) call.
'On Thursday, I would have been 67 years old. As my only wish, please refresh
your memory of me and my murderer.'
When Senator Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloating on Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore his deplorable past. But now that he has become the leading Democrat attack dog, positioning himself as Washington 's leading arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such indulgence are now over.
It's time for good Americans to stand up and remind our countrymen why this man had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980. It's time to say the words 'Mary Jo Kopechne' out loud.
Ted Kennedy drunkenly drove his car off a bridge, extricated himself, and left Miss Kopechne behind to die in the waters underneath the Edgartown, Massachusetts, Bridge on July 17th, 1969 after a night of drinking and partying with the young blonde campaign worker.
But most Americans under 40 have never heard that story, or the details of how Kennedy swam to safety, and then tried to get his cousin Joe Garghan to say he, Garghan, was behind the wheel.
Those young voters don't know how Miss Kopechne, trapped inside Kennedy's Oldsmobile, gasped for air until she finally died (some medical experts saying two and one-half hours later), while this leading Democrat Iraq war critic rushed back to his family's compound to formulate the best alibi he could think of.
Nor does Generation X know how Kennedy was thrown out of Harvard on his ear 15 years earlier for paying a fellow student to take his Spanish final. Nor why the US Army denied him a commission because he cheated on tests.
As they listen to the Democrats' 'Liberal Lion' accuse President Bush of 'telling lie after lie after lie' to get America to go to war in Iraq, young voters don't know about that notorious 1991 Easter weekend in Palm Beach, when Uncle Teddy rounded up his nephews for a night on the town, an evening that ended with one of them credibly accused of rape.
It's time for Republicans and Democrats with a soul to state unabashedly that
they will no longer 'go along with the gag' when it comes to Uncle Ted's
rants about deception and moral turpitude inside the Bush White House.
If the Republicans don't, let's do it ourselves by passing this forgotten disgrace
around the Internet to wake up memories of what a fraud and fake Teddy really is. The Democrat Party should be ashamed to employ this national disgrace from Massachusetts as their spokesman!
