More liberal insanity.

“This thought experiment invites a question to which there is no nonpartisan answer: Was it just as well that we didn’t — couldn’t — have a media feeding frenzy over Chappaquiddick in 1969? Would the nation have been better off if Kennedy had been shamed into private life?

Or, as I believe, is the nation — particularly our disabled and disadvantaged residents — better off for the 40 years of service he was able to render after that terrible night?

The momentary satisfaction of destroying Ted Kennedy for his failings would have had a significant price. Something to keep in mind when the next fallen figure, Democrat or Republican, stumbles into the heat lamp.”

This is what we’ve been told all week by the liberal media. That it doesn’t matter that Kennedy cowardly left Mary Jo Kopechne to die by drowning in a car - when he, an avid swimmer - could have easily saved her. Instead he ran from the scene and only resurfaced when his BAL had returned to normal. Even reasoned that he would say Mary Jo was driving. All because he was trying to flee an officer. In any book it’s called negligent homicide.

So the family of Mary Jo can take great comfort from the fact that their daughter’s murder furthered Kennedy’s “astonishing” career, and even more that he found humor in stories of that day.

Humor….

“- Joe Gargan said “This thing is worse now than it was before. We’ve got to do something. We’re reporting the accident right now!”
- Kennedy said “I’m going to say that Mary Jo was driving.”
- “There’s no way you can say that!” Gargan said. “You can be placed at the scene. Jesus! We’ve got to report this thing. Let’s go.”
- Kennedy was reluctant to do so, Markham observed. “He was still stuck on the idea of having Mary Jo driving the car.”
- Steve Ewing, the ferry’s 16-year-old deckhand, recalled that the Senator greeted him with a cheerful “Hi!” as he collected 15-cent fares from the three men. Gargan recalled that Kennedy seemed “untroubled” during the short ride to Chappaquiddick. Upon arrival, Kennedy went into the ferry house to call David Burke. From what Markham overheard of the conversation, the Senator clearly “was still reluctant to report the accident.”

Detective Barney Flynn’s account:

“I figure,we’ve got a drunk driver, Ted Kennedy. He’s with this girl, and he has it in his mind to go down to the beach and make love to her. He’s probably driving too fast and he misses the curve and goes into Cemetery Road. He’s backing up when he sees this guy in uniform coming toward him. That’s panic for the average driver who’s been drinking; but here’s a United States Senator about to get tagged for driving under. He doesn’t want to get caught with a girl in his car, on a deserted road late at night, with no license and driving drunk on top of it. In his mind, the most important thing is to get away from the situation.

- He doesn’t wait around. He takes off down the road. He’s probably looking in the rear-view mirror to see if the cop is following him. He doesn’t even see the f—ing bridge and bingo! He goes off. He gets out of the car; she doesn’t. The poor son of a bitch doesn’t know what to do. He’s thinking: “I want to get back to my house, to my friends” - which is a common reaction.

- There are houses on Dike Road he could have gone to report the accident, but he doesn’t want to. Because it’s the same situation he was trying to get away from at the corner - which turned out to be minor compared to what happened later. Now there’s been an accident; and the girl’s probably dead. All the more reason not to go banging on somebody’s door in the middle of the night and admit what he was doing. He doesn’t want to reveal himself.”

“And the funny part about it was, ‘Huck’ was only trying to give his directions.”

This is what liberals celebrate.

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