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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
From what I understand, this actually turned up on FlowGo's funpages (there's a usenet link at google indicating a no-longer functioning address). Don't know how long it stayed, but it's worth passing along and here in its entirety at FreeRepublic: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. Click the link and keep reading if you've ever bought into the Saint Teddy formulation, just as dastardly with Senate Democrats chastising Bush as uncaring as it was when Kennedy was speaking for Kerry.
Update: Here's the scoop, complete with picture, at the funnyfunpages. It's true, but I didn't think it was funny.
posted by gbarto at 6:50 PM
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