Mary Jo Kopechne

[clem]

I was sent this, author and source unknown:


"Subject: Food for Thought


Hello My name is Mary Jo Kopechne. I would have been 65 years of age
this year. Read about me and my 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 Sen. John Kerry's leading campaign 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 Sen. Kerry's 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 drink! ing 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, not to mention Sen. John
Kerry, should be ashamed to have the national disgrace from
Massachusetts as their spokesman. And the GOP needs to say so out loud.

I remember all of this and I'm sure most of you do, too.

Least we forget!!!"

 

[piggyandpeewee]

clem: You're right about Mary Jo Kopechne having been forgotten or unknown by a

majority of voters since 1969 (thirty five years this month).

Unfortunately this incident didn't seem to "dampen" (bad pun)
voter enthusiasm for "Teddy" in Massachusetts, but thankfully
foreclosed any possibility of him becoming President.

I do think it's worth pointing out that Kerry has licked Teddy's
"shoes" all these years, knowing full well about his character defect(s). It fits right in with JFK marrying wealthy widows to
finance his political career.

It also says little for longtime Dems across the board who either made excuses for him at the time or never offered a peep about either his behavior or his lack of moral and ethical
sensibilities then or now.