Why can't RW-er's let Chappaquiddick go?

[CrownPrinceBandar]

Here it is again. Ever since Sen. Kennedy started loudly supporting Kerry, the more I've heard the RW ideologues bring up the tragic accident at Chappaquiddick that tragically took the life of Mary Jo Kopeckne. Didn't Sen Kennedy admit and plead guilty to leaving the scene and do his suspended sentence? A case of preferential treatment, maybe. But Kennedy had his day in court and the incident was aired for all to see. What's left?

I KNOW why these talking-heads can't let it go. Its partisan politics as usual. These folks always bring up that he was possibly drunk, that some traffic violations from other states were miraculously "fixed." And now that he is coming out for the Dem. potential front-runner, all chinks in the armor have to be exploited. Its sad, really.

[Az]

1. Rule number 1 of repuke politics

Never ever acknowledge anything wrong with the repuke platform.

Rule number 2: Never ever stop hitting the dems over the head with anything negative you dig up on them.

[RobertSeattle]

4. Corollaries...

The rule of politics:
1. When the issues are against you, argue that character matters.
2. When character is against you, argue that the issues are most important.
3. When character and the issues are against you, sling mud.

[SoCalDem]

2. Ever see an injured fish in a fishtank???

The other fish come up and pick at the injured spot, over and over and over, until it dies..

Kennedy, for all the good that he has done, is vulnerable there, and he has known it all these years.. It will NEVER go away.. some things don't..

The whole episode "smelled"then.. and it still smells.. of cover-up, priviledged treatment,callousness, .. the whole gamut.. A girl died because he was careless..

It's Kennedy's albatross, and he will never get rid of it..

[1gobluedem]

7. Then why isn't Laura Bush's incident given the same treatment?

Laura Bush was involved in a traffic fatality too that, I think (I could be wrong), was her fault. And * has been pulled over for drunk driving too. Why don't those incidents come up more often?

It's business as usual...nothing Republicans do, like Henry Hyde's "youthful indiscretion" affair vs. Clinton's extramarital incidents, are as horrible as what Democrats do. And the commercial/mainstream media have all this information and just sit on it.

[SoCalDem]

10. If Laura had run for congress, it probably would have been brought up

but she was a teenager, and Kennedy was a grown man with a family when this happened..

I have no love for Laura, but she has not sought a public life.. She was dragged into it by *.. I DO think that she got off easy though, ...most kids would have been charged with vehicular manslaughter at the very least, but her family was "connected" too..

Don't get me wrong.. I like Teddy, I just think that what he did was on a higher level of "bad behavior"..

Everyone who goes into politics, or stays in it has to know that everything in their past will be dredged up.. Some stay on and fight it, and a lot jjust fold their tent and go home..

Teddy has "repented" for years by doing good things, and suffering the slings and arrows..

[REP]

15. Excellent Points

I agree that what he did was a higher level of bad behavior. That woman died. As reprehensible as driving while drunk is, Chappaquiddick was worse.

This will always dog Kennedy, just as Janklow's killing a guy while speeding would if he remained in politics. There's just no way that a reported and verified death at the hands of a rich politician will be forgotten.

[joanski01]

3. 'Cuz that's all they got

on him.

[Raven]

5. Chappy will always haunt Teddy Kennedy.

It was a bad scene and we all should face that fact. Teddy made some very bad judgment calls that day...he left the scene and did not go to the police for hours. He certainly atoned for it and has had a truly wonderful senate career but the fact is, it happened and a young woman died. The right will always have this to bring up against Teddy...he has a 30+ year record to stand behind but it will never erase that day.

[59millionmorons]

14. Like 500 + U.S. soldiers deaths will always haunt Bush

Like Chappy this will always live with Bush's legacy.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

6. But of course...

...Smirk going AWOL and having a DUI (as well as Cheney's DUI) and Scarborough's dead Congressional aide in his office, etc. are OFF LIMITS.

[rfranklin]

8. Laura Bush won't be bringing up auto accidents...

since she killed her boyfriend when she ran a stop sign.

And what about Dubya's aborted baby?

What about the 500+ people Dubya sent to die in Iraq on the basis of what he now admits was false info (if not an outright lie, which we know it was.)

[Loonman]

9. Simple thoughts for simple minds

"Remember, Jesus loves you and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton"

[quisp]

11. I work with a lot of wing nuts...

and one in particular cannot talk about anything even remotely political without bringing up Chappaquiddick. While Rush coming out as a junkie has taken some of the wind out of his sails what shuts him up every time is telling him why "Duh'bya" quit drinking.

Bartcop a couple of months back was going on about how Duh'bya and his buddies accidently killed a hooker and that is what made him quit drinking. When I bring up that story this ditto monkey I work with just starts sputtering and I ask him if he thinks Duh'bya's Poppy, who was the VPOTUS and former Head of the CIA, could make a body disappear. And the story is certainly as plausible as Clinton killing Vince Foster. And I mean, if you woke up with a dead hooker in bed, wouldn't you sure as hell would quit drinking.

[DemLikr]

12. because they know Teddy likely boinked Mary Jo before the accident

and that drives them crazy.

Much as one of my fave bloggers, The Rude Pundit, might say: "Republicans and Right Wingers can't stand the Fucking."

[bobbieinok]

13. they hate the Kennedys and liberals

when did this happen?????

[YNGW]

16. TK

>A case of preferential treatment, maybe.

That would be a case of preferential treatment, DEFINATELY!

Here's the problem: If you and I had done what TK did, we'd have fried in the electric chair, but because of who he was, he got away with it. Regardless of whether you are left-wing or right-wing, everyone understands how the rich and powerful can get away with things others can't.