“Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.”

I doubt she was thinking of “taking one for the team” while awaiting rescue in vain…

That is the absolute most stupid comment I’ve read in my life.

And that says plenty.

-Jim+

Someone should post a “NO DIVING” sign on this woman in a prominent location.

I agree with Jim+. Absolutely the most inane, stupid comment I’ve ever read. “Worth it” to be abandoned in a sinking car, in a rapidly declining bubble of air, slowly but surely suffocating to death and hoping to the last that “dear old Teddy” will bring some help, even while he’s sleeping it off across the way in Edgartown? Give me a break. Ted sure didn’t give one to Mary Jo.

Let me explain to you how the world really works:

1) Powerful liberal/progressive enlightened moral and political giants make bad decisions which negatively affect the lives and fortunes of others.

2) Said giants do everything in their power to escape having to deal with the full consequences of those decisions in their own lives.

3) Average non-powerful people have to bear the cost of those decisions.

Apply this simple model to pretty nearly any of the idiocies under consideration by the current political ascendancy. It fits pretty well in most cases. Let’s call it “The Kennedy Rule.”

“We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death….”

We can judge that from his words to her parents, can’t we? Oh, what’s that? He avoided talking to them for ever and ever?

Give the woman a prize for most stunningly stupid comment ever.

is it just me, or is this woman not unbelievably evil to spout such ridiculous nonsense about Mary Jo Kopechne. I guess for some types of liberal women, Mary Jo was a reasonable sacrifice so that little Teddy’s political career would not suffer.

No, we don’t know how much remorse (if any) Ted Kennedy had for Mary Jo’s death. But he acted like the callow little boy he was. I don’t know if he ever really apologized for his cowardly behavior.

Of course, all the major achievements of his Senate career did nothing but advance the statist’s cause of expanding Federal power over everyone’s life. And it is always interesting to know that the super-rich, like Senator Teddy, are always exempt from such things.

This woman is a real winner, ladies and gentlemen. Unfortunately, she seems to have a lot of fans in Webdom. What a shame.

I agree, Allen. This goes way beyond stupid into utter evil.

It’s always a delight to read such hate – whatever silliness Lafsky uttered has been trumped by the Limbaughistas, proving once again that ditto heads are empty heads.

One must wonder at reaction had George W. Bush appointed his brother Jeb as the Attorney General.

Which is preamble to one of my favorite soapboxes.

Just as the American Media establishment declared Woodstock as the defining event of a generation, these aging baby boomers obsess over the Kennedy’s as American political royalty. To be fair, it was reporters of “the greatest generation” that originally promoted the Kennedy Myth, taken as they were with JFK, who was what they all wished to be: rich, handsome, a war hero, powerful, and (best of all) able to bed just about any woman he wanted.

For my money, I’d put another family first. The Kennedy’s, pushed by a bootlegger father with political interests, produced a president best known for his style and for dying, plus two senators, one best known for dying and a couple of Congressmen (2? or just 1?), not to mention a dead girlfriend and a rape victim or two. The Bush family produced a vice-president/president, a governor/president, and a governor – so far. Heck, the Clinton’s produced a governor/president and a senator who became the first serious female candidate for the presidency. In my view, they have contributed as much or more to political life in this country than the Kennedys ever did. In fact, of the Kennedy family, Eunice Shriver was the best, with her pro-life and Special Olympics works. To my knowledge, she never held public office.

When Robert Kennedy was shot, it was all Kennedy all the time. That was obnoxious, but I guess the proximity to 1963 made it inevitable. When John Kennedy Jr (known for his good looks and being John Kennedy Jr.) was killed, the massive media coverage made me sad – clearly the boomers in charge of the media were holding on to their youth. Now, I suppose we should be glad Ted’s death isn’t cancelling all regular programming. Perhaps some clever wag could do a comparison of Ted post-mortems with commentary on the death of, say, Strom Thurman.

Someone help my down off this soap box, please.

Danny boy…pointing out stupidity is an act of kidness, not hate…but do go on….

Well, see this about the great man:

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/28/one-of-his-favorite-topics-of-humor-was-indeed-chappaquiddick-itself/

It is quite easy to answer one of the questions posed by this ultimate, hateful moron – We do, in fact, know for certain that Teddy was affected less by her death than she was. He lived, she died. And I doubt if it was “worth it” to her to die so young so that a drunk could continue on his merry ways for forty years. Also, just as there seems to be no upper limit to the human I.Q., e.g. Einstein, there is, from this example, also absolutely no limit to the depths of human stupidity.

Dan,

When it comes to hate, I’m afraid the Loon Left is its natural breeding ground.

Rush Limbaugh does not inspire hate, but truth and self-reliance. Disagree with him all you want, but to say his supporters (like me) are stupid is…well…the second dumbest thing I’ve heard today.

-Jim+

WHAT!? That is such an unacceptable comment. How horrible.

I went and read the comments for the article at Huffington Post. People are not pleased with Melissa Lafsky at all.

Nope, Kati Presiding Priestess still takes the cake for stoopid. While Missy’s ruminations are utterly shameless I have a different take on her “what if:” What if Teddy had managed to pull it together and save Mary Jo? His life was punctuated by moral and ethical lapses. Not just on Chappaquitic (sp?) but in college Daddy had to bail him out of a cheating scandal. More recently he tried to pull out all the stops when one of his nephews raped a young woman.

What could Teddy have accomplished if he had a true moral compass, not just a political one?

I see William Tighe posted the item I was going to, above. One of Kennedy’s good friends, a former Newsweek and NY Times editor, says that Teddy liked to tell and hear Chappaquiddick jokes. Jokes!

Dan Crawford,

If you consider it “hate” to be upset/offended at the suggestion that a young girl who was abandoned to a watery grave may have felt her death was somehow worthwhile – well, your dictionary must come from some parallel (and rather strange) universe where it’s evil and vicious to believe that it’s wrong to get drunk, drive a car off a bridge, and leave a young girl to die in the car. I’ve always been lead to believe that such feelings/words could be described as “caring about a helpless victim”, or “disapproval of abusing the dead.”

I don’t see how it’s hate to feel more sympathy for Mary Jo Kopechne than for the man who drove her into Poucha Pond. And, no one here has mentioned Rush Limbaugh; are you gifted with telepathic powers such that you know what we commenters listen to on our radios? Or – perhaps – you’re just making ad hominem attacks because you have no logic or facts to offer. Either way, I look forward to your justification of your comment.

I’m not going to take any cheap shots at Edward Kennedy; he’s now facing his maker, as you and I will one day, and the judgement he faces is the only one that really matters. But I won’t remain silent about people trying to turn the victim of Chappaquiddick into a voice from the grave celebrating the life of Senator Kennedy. That’s just plain sick; like saying that Sharon Tate would be glad at what Charles Manson has done with his life since she was murdered. And if you somehow manage to read that as being “hate” – well, I really don’t care. Because that’s not what I’ve said, or what I feel – and your opinion doesn’t change that reality.

Re Ted Kennedy: Thank-you Lord for Purgatory. I know I will need to clean up before meeting You, and I am grateful for the opportunity.

Thanks to Janjan for the reminder that none of us can know the state of anyone else’s soul, and perhaps not even that of our own. God is merciful and just.

And also this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/janetdaley/6095397/How-the-Kennedys-changed-America.html

That’s an interesting take on the Kennedy legacy, William Tighe. “Making the world safe for philanderers.” Many younger people are simply unaware of the habits of the Kennedy men, all of them who survived WWII, at least. (I don’t know anything about Joe, the oldest brother, except that he died in combat.)

The attitude of feminists and left-wingers in general towards this family is a mirror of TEC’s approach to personal sin, or rather, both groups exemplify the new cultural belief that if you do “good works” as defined by the leftist agenda, if you support the right causes and say the right things, then your behavior and treatment of people in your personal life don’t matter too much.

Of course we all fall short of living up to our ideals and the Lord’s commandments, but few men consistently and callously ignore those commandments while pretending publicly to be fighting the Lord’s battles.

Teddy’s life appeared to have been different in his last fifteen years, following his second marriage, and it was for him, his priest, and supremely, God, to determine the extent of his repentance and forgiveness. His big brothers were killed before they reached any such stage.

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Miss Lafsky and Dan must buy their moral compasses from the same store where Teddy got his.

And that’s not hate. It’s disgust. I don’t waste my emotions hating dog poop when I step in it. But I do srcape it off my shoe.