Even Fox News Radio asserts that "the nation mourns Ted Kennedy." This part of "the nation" emphatically does not mourn Kennedy. The man was a scoundrel, the worst of the bad Kennedy "dynasty." For decades, he epitomized the unthinking, arrogant, hypocritical, elitist liberal who knew better than you what was good for you. Many people have hated Ted Kennedy since he left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown while he wandered around, thinking up ways to salvage his political career. Worst of all, he never owned up to what he did, trying to generate sympathy for himself with his pathetic neck brace. Other than partisan socialists, who have always believed that the ends justify the means, people recognize those who are bereft of good character, and they recognize Kennedy as one of those. An AOL poll I saw since Kennedy died showed that an overwhelming percentage of respondents viewed him negatively. As one commenter to an online article put it, Kennedy wasn't a lion, he was a rat.
I'll never forget reading of the "waitress sandwiches" Kennedy and his fellow Senate bum Christopher Dodd enjoyed making in Georgetown. Kennedy was also on hand in Florida, partying shamelessly, when his infamous nephew, William Kennedy Smith, was accused of raping the "blue dot lady."
The left will turn Kennedy's death into a days-long religious observance. Of course, they didn't do that when the great Senator Jesse Helms passed away, issuing no encomiums then. My only thought on the passing of this disgraceful politician is that they'll only replace him with someone just as bad.
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We are charged not to speak ill of the dead. And that is a good thing. Likewise, though, we are not bid to lie. And in bearing witness to the truth, it must be said that in his thuggish assault on the character of Robert Bork*, Ted Kennedy was the author of the single ugliest episode in modern American political history and initiator of the hyperpartisan politics of personal destruction. To be sure, politics has always been a tough, ugly, mean and even mean-spirited game, but the post-Bork environment, the environment largely defined by Ted Kennedy, has taken American politics to new lows from which we may never recover. We have been in a Cold Civil War for better than a generation now, thanks to Teddy.
*Does anyone doubt that the real poison pill in American politics is abortion? That's what the Bork fight was about and that's all it was about. When you peel away all the sanctimonious brow-mopping and hand-wringing from the left that is now standard theater during judicial confirmation hearings, the battles of the past generation have really been about abortion and only abortion. When we as a society effectively legalized abortion on demand, we unleashed a dark force that is consuming us.
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