Why was Ted Kennedy so long the man conservatives loved to hate? Because the rules didn't apply to Ted Kennedy. He got Cs and gained admission to Harvard. He never bothered, save for his brief time in the Army, to get a proper job before he won election to the Senate. He feverishly attempted to cover up drunk driving a woman to her death, and his dronish followers sought to make him president. Read my piece @ the American Spectator to discover why the late Massachusetts senator "need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life."

Melissa Lafsky on the Huffington Post -

“We don't know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she'd have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. What we don't know, as always, could fill a Metrodome.

Still, ignorance doesn't preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn't automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted's death, and what she'd have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.

Who knows -- maybe she'd feel it was worth it.”

Excuse me? Liberalism is, in fact, a mental disorder.

asdf,

It's their religion - and with any religion there comes the tenet of martyrdom. Of course, I do not mean to deny Liberalism as a mental disorder - it is that as well. The symptoms of this disorder include, but are not limited to, delusional thinking, arrested development, utopian visions, and the seemingly contradictory pairing of boundless naivete with utter ruthlessness. This makes the patient who suffers from this disorder extremely dangerous to himself and especially so to others. In the severely afflicted, the thought process can become so disjointed, that the patient can come to justify, not just a single death, but the death of millions - and all for the greater good.

Great thoughts Highlander. This is a little off the subject but couldn't the same criteria be applied to define traditional religion as a mental disorder, especially disjointed thought process leading to the pointless death of millions? I'm not trying to kick up an argument on religion (although you did open the door) but wouldn't the criteria for mental disorder apply across the board, with no distinction made between a pseudo religion and an actual religion? Just a thought, talk amongst yourselves.

I think all you need to know about this guy is that Mary Jo asphixiated and did not drown. Unless for votes or sex, people didn't mean much to the Senior Senator.

Now, we have another person of questionable character as our Senior Senator.

Oy vay!

I love this headline: "After Kennedy's Death: Silence from the Pope"

Anybody with character is staying away from this guy.

Ancient Mariner,

Good points. There certainly are aspects of all religions that are seized upon by the already mentally unstable to realize their basest intentions. But I hold secular religions such as Liberalism apart from the traditional in that they are founded by the mentally ill, for the mentally ill. Traditional religions were born of man's attempt to explain the world and his place in it, not shape it to suit him. Under the circumstances, a very logical thing to do, I think. While those beliefs can be disputed, there is no evidence that disproves them. Liberalism seeks to herd mankind on in pursuit of the mirage that is society perfected - and it demands fealty to it's beliefs despite ample evidence of their repeated failures. The delusion of a secular paradise on earth has, in just the last century, taken 100 million lives and failed to improve man's condition one iota.

Perhaps it is more accurate to describe Liberalism as a cult. I think it has more in common with the group that confidently sets a date for the end of the world, only to doggedly set another one at it's passing.

Obama called Ted Kennedy "the soul of the of the Democratic party". Exactly. About sums it up.

Well, anything to get Obama to go to a church where they don't teach Black Liberation Theology.

Good job cherry-picking (red herring straw man fallacy) supposed liberal crimes, which were in fact crimes by state-capitalists and authoritarians far different from the liberal and certainly anarcho-syndicalist tradition.

Here are some of liberalisms achievements in America: granting women the right to vote, civil rights for blacks, anti-trust laws, retirement security for those over 65, universal single-payer public health care for those over 65 and the poor, universal childhood education, osha standards, food-production regulation, etc.

These are all liberal reforms that have saved millions of lives and improved the lives of millions, fiercely opposed by conservatives the time at which they were proposed and later implemented. Just because there will always be injustice and poverty doesn't mean that a just society shouldn't fight for changes that mitigate those conditions or remove them completely in some cases. I suppose running to the echo chamber and spouting fallacious garbage is more important than truly understanding history and removing the personal subjective narrative from it.

A good book that aids in the process of accepting one's fallibility and helps one to practice abstention from imposing narratives is Taleb's The Black Swan.

"Here are some of liberalisms achievements in America: granting women the right to vote, civil rights for blacks, anti-trust laws, retirement security for those over 65, universal single-payer public health care for those over 65 and the poor, universal childhood education, osha standards, food-production regulation, etc."

Again - Exactly. And things have been screwed up in this country ever since.

Hey Dan, you and your A.S. piece were made mention of in American Thinker. Pretty cool.

Ted Kennedy was an incredible statesman and reprsented people who didnt have their own voice. He is and was remembered for this yesterday. His funeral rivaled Ronny Reagans and he was just a senator.
Lets be honest Chappaquidick and the Palm Beach/AU Bar rape case were huge black eyes. This is squarely why Ted didnt win the presidency, which he shouldnt have for his cowardly act at Chappy.
But as a citizen of Mass and the US we couldnt have asked for a better senator to give a second chance to.

What are all you aholes going to do now, that you dont have Teddy boy to bash.
Oh yeah, the Death Panels and healthcare for all. You dumbf678ks what the hell do you think medicare is? Get a F^&*(ing clue, Ted was good, you need to worry about The O Man and his black panther gang. Skippy gates and Barry Obama, bad seeds. William Ayers will soon be the drug czar if barry has his way. Watch out america, Obama is no good. Kennedy was good

Ted Kennedy was an incredible statesman and reprsented people who didnt have their own voice. He is and was remembered for this yesterday. His funeral rivaled Ronny Reagans and he was just a senator.
Lets be honest Chappaquidick and the Palm Beach/AU Bar rape case were huge black eyes. This is squarely why Ted didnt win the presidency, which he shouldnt have for his cowardly act at Chappy.
But as a citizen of Mass and the US we couldnt have asked for a better senator to give a second chance to.

What are all you aholes going to do now, that you dont have Teddy boy to bash.
Oh yeah, the Death Panels and healthcare for all. You dumbf678ks what the hell do you think medicare is? Get a F^&*(ing clue, Ted was good, you need to worry about The O Man and his black panther gang. Skippy gates and Barry Obama, bad seeds. William Ayers will soon be the drug czar if barry has his way. Watch out america, Obama is no good. Kennedy was good

Double posting 'ME' / 'Teddybear'?

Or should we say 'PMA'.

You're coming unhinged lad.

But that can happen to people who still want to believe in an ideology that they know to be and is proven to be wrong.

"Or should we say 'PMA'."

I'm done ever responding to anything you type. It's so ridiculously stupid and ill-informed that it lowers me to your level.

To explain that last comment, here is the racist hillbilly white trash filth that came from the botched and bungled mind of asdf:

In response to this quote...

"Here are some of liberalisms achievements in America: granting women the right to vote, civil rights for blacks, anti-trust laws, retirement security for those over 65, universal single-payer public health care for those over 65 and the poor, universal childhood education, osha standards, food-production regulation, etc."

asdf wrote this

"Again - Exactly. And things have been screwed up in this country ever since."

To think for one moment that equal human rights for minorities and women "screwed up this country" is beyond any standard of intelligence or morality. Good riddance, the discourse has lost nothing.

* : 1ad ho·mi·nem
* Pronunciation: \(ˈ)ad-ˈhä-mə-ˌnem, -nəm\
* Function: adjective
* Etymology: New Latin, literally, to the person
* Date: 1598

1 : appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect
2 : marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made

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