Kennedy Hypocrisy

The following is based on an E-mail I received from fellow Scrappler... Mack.

Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy (D-MA) has become a leading Democratic attack dog, positioning himself as Washington's arbiter of truth and integrity. He comes out regularly with guns blazing, slamming the Bush adminsistration with allegations of lying, cover-up, deceit, or any accusation he can cobble together. This is a hypocrisy of the highest magnitude. Can anyone say... Chappiquiddick?

Republicans think that most Americans know the story of how this "Conscience of the Democratic Party" left Miss Kopechne behind to die in the waters underneath the Edgartown Bridge in July 1969, after a night of drinking and partying with the young blonde campaign worker.

But most Americans under age 50 have never actually heard that story, or any of the details of how young Kennedy, a very good swimmer, left her behind to fend for herself, swam to safety, and then tried to get his cousin Joe Garghan to say HE was behind the wheel.

Those young voters don't know how Miss Kopechne, hopelessly trapped inside Kennedy's Oldsmobile, gasped for air until she finally died, while the Democrats' leading Senator rushed back to his compound to formulate the best alibi he could think of. They don't know that he called his lawyer before he called the police for help. They don't know that Kennedy was driving with an invalid drivers license because he had such a horrible driving record.

Neither 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. Or, how rumor has it that the US Army denied him a commission because he was caught cheating on tests (verification of this rumor would be most welcome).

Many 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.

Many don't know that he firmly believed in the Right to Life and said so, until Roe v. Wade became the law of the land, at which point he shamelessly "changed his mind" for political expediency.

He did the same thing in 2001 when he first fought hard to get the No Child Left Behind Act passed, and then again abandoned it for political expediency.

The Democratic Party should be ashamed to have this national disgrace from Massachusetts as their spokesman.