The Improbable Political Existence of Ted Kennedy

My Pajamas Media column is up in which I try and fail to comprehend how Ted Kennedy had a political career. I still don’t get how anybody could work with that guy and pretend that’s normal.

BTW, I forgot I drew Ted Kennedy is a comic once.

21 Comments

  1. I lived in DC Circa 1987-91. A friend interviewed for a job as Teddy’s driver. He didn’t get the job, but the interview was all about whether my friend could be ‘discreet.’ The underlying tone was that Teddy was a total sleezeball, and he couldn’t go flapping his lips about what he would be seeing. Remember the William kennedy Smit rape trial fiasco? No telling how many lives the man ruined.

    {Please forgive me for speaking ill of the dead, but Frank is right. The guy does not deserve “Great American” status.}

  2. Is everyone inside the beltway really that out of touch that they don’t realize that to the average American, Ted Kennedy is rightfully nothing more than a punchline?

    Yes.
    http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/08/what-do-the-kennedys-mean-to-you.html

    Read that, and realize that they were expecting an outpouring of love and tender regrets and got
    I remember when he said “Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?” but I was too young to appreciate the irony at the time.

    And a bunch of comments from “Mary” and “MJ Kopechne” and whatnot.

  3. I now hold Frank J as the greatest writer EVER!

    And I just love how now it is racist to disparage an old fat WHITE guy. Liberals, gotta love their pointy little heads.

    Irony: a kennedy dying of “brain” cancer.

  4. “Wouldn’t someone who understands civil rights not have failed so miserably on the subject of how you treat an individual human being in your own car?”

    This should be carved on his fraking tombstone. Once again, you cut right to the heart of the matter, Frank.

  5. For someone who doesn’t write like Victor Davis Hanson, you do alright for yourself. Of course, since you don’t write like Victor Davis Hanson, you are making the rest of us conservatives look bad.

    Or, perhaps, since your “undescriptive and unproductive language” drives former English teachers to comment causing them to look like humorless twits, maybe they are the ones looking bad. They also look like poor grammarians as “undescriptive” is not a word.

  6. > Plentyobailouts says:
    > So my mouse accidentally clicked on the twitter feed on the left hand side and took me to franks twitter stuff. Does that make me a homosexual?

    No, you’re a homosexual for other reasons entirely.

  7. Thanks, Frank. Someone had to say it.

    I am absolutely blown away by that Blarty person on that comment thread. He/She is precisely the type of person you are talking about in that article. I posted a rant on that thread in anger. Maybe not wise.

  8. Here’s my theory as to why Ted Kennedy kept getting re-elected to the senate. Senators are elected every 6 years. Kennedy was first elected in 1962 and again in 1968. That was the year he gave eulogy for his asassinated brother,Bobby. The third year he was re-elected was in 1974. The same year Dick Nixon resigned. Watergate was a big thing way back in the day. Republicans had to distance themselves from Nixon. Nobody was paying much attention to Teddy K. Six years later he ran for president against his fellow democrat Jimmy Carter. Carter lost to Ronald Reagan for president in Nov. 1980. Why he was re-elected in 1986.1992,1998,2004 I’ll never know. Unless like South Carolinians for Strom Thurmond,West Virginians for Robert Byrd ans Alaskans for Ted Stevens it was force of habit.

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