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 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. And more ashamed
> >to present us with the
> >likes of Sen John Kerry as their option for a
> >president.
> >
> >And the GOP needs to say so out loud. I remember all
> >of this and I'm sure
> >most of you do, too
> > |
