Thirty-six years ago today, the day before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were to become the first humans to land on another planet, twenty-nine-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne departed this one, drowning in Ted Kennedy's car as he left her helpless, at Chappaquiddick. It's a shame that the people of Massachusetts can't see their senior senator for the national disgrace that he is.

"...drowning in Ted Kennedy's car ..."

We don't know the cause of death, because Kennedy's people put pressure on the girl's parents to refuse an autopsy.

The scarier alternative is that she suffocated, her head in the air pocket by the car's back window, gasping for hours of growing pain (CO2 poisoning) -- when she could have been rescued by proper agencies who might have been alerted -- while Kennedy sought legal advice.

Teddy drank, Mary Jo sank

It's more than a shame; it's a downright disgrace. That the reprehensible Hero of Chappaquiddick still stains the floor of the Senate should make all decent people filled with revulsion. This vile cretin from a disgusting lineage never has received, and never will, this life-long Massachusetts citizen's vote.

More people died in Kennedy's Oldsmobile than in Gitmo.

"first humans to land on another planet"

C'mon, Rand! We know you know better than that. (Maybe Sheila Jackson Lee ought to get a pass for mistaking the Mars for the moon.)

Try "another world."

And I should have added that I agree with the rest of the post. Anyone who's voted for Ted Kennedy after 1969 ought to be ashamed.

If anything, it shows that no one should ever have expected Democrats to give a damn about Juanita Broaddrick either.

Senator Kennedy is worse than a state or national disgrace. At worse he is a murder and at best he is guilty of drunkeness, cowardice and manslaughter.

He along with the likes of O.J. Simpleton, and anyone else who gets away with these type crimes, may get away with their deeds here on this earth. But most of us believe in some after life or some kind of retribution for our earthly deeds. Senator Kennedy will get his in the end. Broken on the cosmic wheel, denied nirvana, burn in hell, none of it sounds like fun to me.

Oh and wake up in Mass-a-two-shits folks!!

And leftists complain about how we on the right love Bush so much we'll excuse anything.

I just realized the significance of a phrase I once heard. In 1931, General Smedly Butler passed on a story from Cornelius Vanderbilt who had told him it was true. Vanderbilt was riding through the Italian countryside in a car with Mussolini. Their car hit and killed a child, and the car just drove on. Mussolini told Vanderbilt, "Never look back. It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of state?"

(Butler was court-martialed and ordered to apologize. He retired instead.)

I guess Ted and his followers agree with Mussolini.

Quote from ion: ""first humans to land on another planet"

C'mon, Rand! We know you know better than that. (Maybe Sheila Jackson Lee ought to get a pass for mistaking the Mars for the moon.)

Try "another world.""

Actually the Moon is proportionally much larger then most any other moon of our solar system in relation to its parent body. The exception being Pluto in which it's moon Charon is nearly of equal size. Many will argue that the Earth-Moon system is actually a binary planet formation. So, Rand is well within his right of labeling the Moon a planet.

"...drowning in Ted Kennedy's car ..."

I'm tempted to write a song parody around that line.

I'm reminded of the 1973 National Lampoon parody of a car ad that read, "If Teddy Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he'd be President today. Why? Because it floats." It caused some consternation in the Kennedy compound, if memory serves.

I'm driving in my car, I turn on the radio...

Hey, at least Teddy didn't out any non-covert CIA agents or anything like that.