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She would have been 65 years of age this year.
Read about Mary Jo and her killer below.
When Sen. 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's become a leading Republican 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 the GOP to stand up and remind America why this chief spokesman
had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 - time to say the words
Mary Jo Kopechne out loud.
As is often the case, Republicans have deluded themselves into thinking that
most Americans already 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 40 have never
heard that story, or details of how Kennedy swam to safety,
then tried to get his cousin Joe Garghan to say he 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, while the Democrats'
leading Iraq war critic rushed back to his compound to formulate the best
alibi he could think of.
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 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 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.
And 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 Democratic Party should be ashamed to have the national disgrace from
Massachusetts as their spokesman.
Read about Mary Jo and her killer below.
When Sen. 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's become a leading Republican 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 the GOP to stand up and remind America why this chief spokesman
had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 - time to say the words
Mary Jo Kopechne out loud.
As is often the case, Republicans have deluded themselves into thinking that
most Americans already 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 40 have never
heard that story, or details of how Kennedy swam to safety,
then tried to get his cousin Joe Garghan to say he 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, while the Democrats'
leading Iraq war critic rushed back to his compound to formulate the best
alibi he could think of.
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 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 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.
And 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 Democratic Party should be ashamed to have the national disgrace from
Massachusetts as their spokesman.
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