Jack Cashill’s article for American Thinker should shut the yaps of all morons calling Roy Moore “unfit for the senate” while they simultaneously lauded Ted Kennedy as the LION OF THE SENATE.
Sen. Patty Murray of Washington was eighteen when Kennedy let Mary Jo Kopechne die. Said she in her tribute to Kennedy, “When I was young Ted Kennedy was larger than life.” Murray continues with a straight face, “Ted never once stopped fighting for those who couldn’t fight for themselves.” Ms. Kopechne might beg to differ.
Although Ted was never tried for rape, his nephew, William Kennedy Smith, was. On Good Friday 1991, Kennedy took Smith and his son Patrick out for a long night of drinking. What better way for a Catholic to honor Good Friday? The young men brought two young women home with them. Hoping perhaps for his share of the action, a drunken Ted Kennedy, nearly 60 now, wandered without pants into the room where everyone gathered.
“I got totally weirded out,” said one of the women. She stood up and told the others, “I’m out of here. I’m leaving.” The fleeing guest left behind Patricia Bowman, the woman who would accuse Smith of rape. Smith would be acquitted. Ted Kennedy cheered. He believed Anita Hill two months earlier, but he chose not to believe Bowman. “It’s the acquittal that money can buy,” said Bowman afterwards. Reported rapes were said to have dropped 40 percent in that part of Florida after the trial. No one wanted to go through with what Bowman had.
“Twenty years after I first met him, I was elected as a U.S. Senator from Maryland,” said Maryland’s Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Kennedy. “I was just one of two women Senators and the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. Though I was all by myself, I was never alone. Maryland’s senior Senator Paul Sarbanes and Senator Kennedy were what I call my ‘Sir Galahads.'”
After just thirty years in the Senate, Mikulski stepped down last year. McCaskill and Murray, however, may get to decide the fate of Alabama’s Roy Moore should he get elected to the U.S Senate. They do not believe that Moore lives up to their standards. Without benefit of due process, McCaskill declared him “not fit” to serve in the same Senate as Sir Galahad Ted Kennedy.
Say what one will about Roy Moore, but unlike Kennedy, he did not make a career of debauchery, and no one ever drowned in his car.
ht/ wisco dave
Finally! A use for the 1960 Edsel!
I love Jack Cashill. His book “Deconstructing Obama” was brilliant.
Apparently neither Patty Murray or Barbara Mikulski own mirrors. They were always safe from sexual advances.
Yep, if Roy Moore ever did this, his campaign would be dead in the water…
Moore is not a Democrat. Kennedy was. That explains everything.
When Democrat is translated into English, it means Dim Wit.
Impressive research there Bubba Fur, got the make and model right.
Not one of my weapons has killed as many people as Teddy’s Olds.
Dianny @ Also “If I had a Son,” by Jack Cashill
The Railroading of George Zimmerman.
As the fabulous Ann Coulter once said: “The only fatality in the war on women, was Mary Jo Kopechne.”
July 18, 1969. Age 28.
Ready Teddy went after a friend of mine in Hyannis when we lived there in the early 90s. She was a farm bred midwestern girl.
Teddy didn’t get very far.
I doubt if Roy Moore is sweating a stained blue dress showing up election eve either.
Don’t leave out JFK. We now have the reports of him seducing young, nineteen year old White House intern, Mimi Alford(only four days into her internship, mind you….http://nypost.com/2012/02/05/teen-mistress-addresses-relationship-pols-cold-war-fears-in-memoir/).
Let us not forget the Secret Service making sure his use of prostitutes was on the down low.
The Democrats will always elevate their own to the level of a demi-god because of their supposed virtue and overlook almost any and all previous sins(Robert Bryd and the KKK). Absolution comes adherence to a Leftist agenda, not from any form of repentance or spiritual rebirth.
a very excellent read on Teddy’s exploits w/ Mary Jo is ‘Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up’ by Leo Damore … you can get it on Amazon
I remember working on a re-model of a building @ 6th & Independence, just behind the Capital Building back in the early ’70’s. We finished the Banking establishment inside the main lobby & during the dedication grand opening in staggers ‘The Lion of the Senate’ w/ a drop-dead blonde on one arm & a beautiful red-head on the other. He was drunk as a skunk. It was 10:00 in the morning.
Ted Kennedy – Lion of the Senate ?
Pfffft. Depends on what you think a Lion is.
A: Lion – symbol of strength, courage, & leadership.
B: Symbol of the dominate Predator in the area.
I suspect the DemonRats used the Lion of the Senate title as word play two ways:
definition A as their coverup to the public of Ted’s true character.
And definition B as their insider dark joke about his true character. Hidden in plain sight.
He was indeed Babs Mikulski’s Sir Gal-I-Had of the Senate.
Which fits right in with the whole Came-a-lot word play deception.
I hear there is a movie coming out next year “Chappaquiddick”
Supposed to be not too favorable to the Lion?
The more I think about this accidental encounter the more I wonder about it. It’s probably nothing.
I was working as an intern at department of labor (oxymoron) while attending GWU.
I knew this shortcut through the bushes next to the capitol building from DOL to a great lunch place on east capitol street. I was in my early twenties so I was moving briskly. I got to the northeast corner of the capitol building at the exact same moment that teddy was rounding the corner going southwest. We darn near smashed into each other. He was in a hurry too.
He was startled.
It probably means nothing. But he was shooting through the bushes too. I was twenty something. He was fifty or sixty something.
It was weird and I had him dead to rights if I had the inclination.
Scratch marks, broken nails, tells me everything I need to know about Teddy.
The Democrats newfound indignation is almost comical.
Booby,
It was an Oldsmobile.
Edsels looked like an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon.
If, by lion, you mean a relentless predator of innocent powerless creatures, then yeah, Kennedy was definitely the “Lion of the Senate”
The ENTIRE kennedy family including the cousins, with the exception of the sister they threw away, is disgusting. Everywhere they are they bring sorrow with them.