read a disgusting article today that only referred to her as “a woman.” So sad indeed. Love to read her bio on this site soon, if someone were up for it…

except …. Let the Final Judgment Be Served!!!!

If ever there was a time to use the acronym R.I.P. (Requiescat In Pace, or Rest in Peace) I think it is now. Some thoughts:

1. Reid, Pelosi and the other carrion-eaters in Congress ought to leave the man, his reputation, and his family alone. Even the most terrific (or horriffic) politician is a human being, with human flaws and foibles, with a family who will grieve.

2. Those of us who don’t consider Kennedy or his legacy worthy of honoring or emulating could at least let the liberal children play for a day or two, to cry crocodile tears and publicly rent their clothing in mock mourning. It is to be expected, and we needn’t really trash the man again just to poke our current nemeses in the eye.

3. Could any of us come through life normal if: a) we were born into a family like the Kennedys; b) had three “better brothers” die violently (one in war, two publicly assassinated) with the result that, c) we inherited the mandatory mantle of leadership we were never ready to assume; and d) we new that through our cowardly or booze-soaked actions we were responsible for the death of an innocent woman in the flower of her youth? That would make for a “cocktail of crazy” few of us could handle.

4. Like his politics or not, he did “engage in public service” for 40-some years… and that’s how I see it — believe me, to live in D.C. and run amongst that pack of thieves and scum is a life I would never want.

5. The guy was an alcoholic, like so many, many in America. With that came all the involuntary stupidity of that disease. Only he was in a position where his demons were very visible and could hurt us all.

Nah, he wasn’t evil, and he wasn’t a saint. He was a mixed bag, and I prefer to give him (and, by extension, all of us) a break. Privately, I feel like the rest of you. But publicly, I’ll say only this: may he “Rest in Peace.”

His “Colleagues and Friends” are singing his praises today but anyone looking at his last official act a public servant should realize that it was effectively an effort to disenfranchise the public in his home state, at his behest.

Nobody is using the word “hypocrisy” there in the MSM and people are treating his “legacy” with kid gloves but here we have a man dying of brain cancer once again trying to game the system just because he has the power to do so. He obviously didn’t trust the people of the Commonwealth of Masschusetts very much in his final days, even though it’s 85% (D) and led by a (D) governor of the most beholden kind.

you’re upset because Kennedy was acting like a typical politician? I’m shocked, SHOCKED he’d stoop so low….

All this episode really shows is the importance of winning the down ticket races… which is admittedly hard for the GOP to do in state like Mass. Still, I certainly remember some less then forthright behavior concerning the mid-decade redistricting that occurred in Texas a few years back. If that sort of behavior is ok, then I really don’t think that there’s a lot of room to complain about what the Dems are certainly going to do in Mass without looking like a hypocrite.

And incidentally, I think the way Texas handles Senate vacancies should be the model for all states… including our socialist countrymen from the Bay State, because it does strike a reasonable balance of making sure people are represented as well as limit just how long an unelected person can remain in the Senate.

Dan’s post was a pure class act, and in many ways, I think that that class was wasted on Kennedy. I love Dan’s stuff, and had this tribute been to a more worthy advocate for the left, I would judge his latest piece far more charitably, but as it is, Dan is praising Frmr. Senator Kennedy with faint condemnation, to tweak the well-known phrase. We should just accept that he’s dead and move on. Doing otherwise either makes Kennedy out to be a saint, or at least a flawed hero, to those readers of Redstate who aren’t well-acquainted with his many faults and misdeeds in Congress (and makes us look like milquetoasts), or in the case of a critical piece, is untoward, gives the left ammunition, and has the potential of distracting us from any harmful developments occurring in Washington, if Redstate is oversaturated with said OPs. In short, Dan wrote a fantastic obituary to the wrong man, IMO.

My memories of the Senator’s peculiar form of Americanism go as far back as the Vietnam War, and still cause me to choke. Little in my memory of the man leaves me to believe he was a man of character, rather than simply an opportunistic, bullying, garden variety politician of the effete, elite variety.

He had nothing in common with the ‘common man’ despite all the efforts of his image-makers. In fact, he was the youngest son of a soft-on-the-Nazis, multimillionaire rum running racketeer.

On his death, I hesitate to utter my heart-felt : ‘Good Riddance’.
No. I won’t say that. Too unbecoming. So, I’ll simply make note here in RS of his death by uttering: ‘He is a man who ought never to have been born - considering all the good he performed for America from his lofty perch’.

If not for Obama, that hapless dolt would be occupying that senate seat for the rest of his life too. I’ve had it with these career politicians.

Maybe go here first to offer some honor:

http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/08/26/in-memory-senator-edward-kennedy/

is a hard thing to overlook.

“Adamantly opposed to slavery”… yet was a big supporter of chains where the iron ones were traded for green paper ones to buy votes… otherwise known as welfare…

Hmmm…. Mary Jo Kopechne… we don’t need to go further on that one.. you already know what he did there.

HMOs.. one of the worst ideas imposed on health care, claimed it was a revolution after he proposed it, then 20 years later called it a failure but conveniently forgetting he was the instigator of it in the first place…

Shall we go on about all the “good” this man did with his life?

Not one hour had passed upon the nomination of Robert Bork to the SCOTUS by President Reagan, before Kennedy rushed to the Senate floor to deliver a nationally televised speech that serves as a fitting definition of his legacy:

“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would have to sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police would break down citizen’s doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy.”

Not a peep from the MSM on this, and it took over two months before the Republicans even responded, so shell-shocked were they. Well, we got Anthony Kennedy in his place, and he has let us down many times.

So yeah, Ted Kennedy was willing to work with Republicans. Sure. When was that?

BTW, CNN today issued a memo to their staff that there were to be no discussions of Mary Jo Kopechne or Chappaquiddick. Nice, huh? Seems to me I heard of lot of negativity when Ronald Reagan passed away.

You called him a “man of honor”, please tell me how that is possible?
It was 1969 when Senator Kennedy, recognizing the success of Medicare for senior citizens, first called for universal health care for all Americans. “We must begin to move now to establish a comprehensive national health insurance program, capable of bringing the same amount and high quality of health care to every man, woman, and child in the United States,” Kennedy said at Boston University Medical Center on December 16, 1969. You say his death was tragic, but what of Mary Jo? Bear in mind that she was a beautiful and bright young woman who had died in a pond on Chappaquiddick Island just 5 months before, on July 18, 1969 as a result of his actions, or more accurately, his lack of action. He managed to get himself out but left her in the car. He said that he tried to get her out but was unable to do so. Her body was found in the car, floating in the trapped air bubble. She had apparently used all the oxygen because the coroner’s report said that she suffocated, she didn’t drown. So…what does that say about his regard for her? Sometime later he told her parents that she was dead but he didn’t tell them he was the driver of the car until the news media spilled that tidbit!! A couple of months later Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury and was given a TWO MONTH SUSPENDED SENTENCE!! Now that is fair don’t ya know!! And to top that cake, Kennedy claimed to be unfamiliar with that area yet it was shown later that he had made several trips to the beach using that very road which BTW required a sharp turn. It would have been difficult for a sober person, a person who had driven that road several times during the recent days to mistake that road for the main road. So he was either drunk when he claimed he was not or he did it on purpose with the intent on killing her for some unknown reason. We could speculate until the cows come home but it won’t help her.
I am going to revert back to the name that he is called by the Headquarters Of Rabid Right Wing Jingoistic Extremists Who Possess A Mob Mentality…Fat Teddy.
Fat Teddy pulled a fast one on Mary Jo’s parents, on Mary Jo’s friends and coworkers. and considering Kennedy’s occupation as a law maker, the worst one of all, on the law.
He should never have been reelected again after her death. That in itself is a crime!! So weep over him all you want to, but I won’t. I didn’t weep over John Wayne Gacy or Ted Bundy and I won’t weep over Ted Kennedy!!

He ruined Robert Bork for sport (an ACTUAL man of honor) and he was the chief among those who brought bitter partisanship to the judicial nomination process.

“He was a father, a husband, an uncle” - which had nothing to do with honor - lots of convicted felons have managed this one.

“a friend to many, many people.” - perhaps you mean he stuck his #### into many, many people?

He was a first-class slimebag who was utterly, completely unworthy of the accolades being bestowed upon him.

So since it’s only less than 24 hours since he died(late Tuesday night). We should savage him tomorrow morning.

I’m just a little hung up on your screen name. You’ve only made one comment here so far, so I won’t call Moby yet. Carry on.

No doubt about your sincerity.

You may want to research “jingo” a bit as related to “by Jesus” or “Pair Dieu” (by God.), however.

Regards