36 years ago today...

Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in a lake at Chappaquiddick.

She was born July 26, 1940.  Next week, she would have turned 65... if Ted Kennedy could swim.  Or had been sober.  Or, perhaps, if he had immediately picked up a telephone to call for help... instead of calling his lawyers.

Some people even suspect that Mary Jo was actually dead before the car hit the water, and that the accident was staged to make it look like she drowned.

Ted was a sitting United States Senator at the time.  Even at this early stage in his career, Ted had a reputation.  He was kicked out of Harvard for cheating.  He was a well known drunk and louse.  And now he had a corpse on his hands.  But he was only ever charged with leaving the scene of an accident, and never spent a day a jail.  He was a sitting United States Senator at the time, in an era when the democRat party controlled the House and Senate, and therefore the power of impeachment.

This is not true today. 

And there is no statute of limitations on murder.

If I were a member of the House of Representatives, I would introduce Articles of Impeachment on Senator Ted Kennedy, for the alleged high crime of murder.  But that will never happen.

One thing will happen, though: Ted Kennedy will face re-election in 2006.

We will never see justice with Ted Kennedy.  The Congress lacks the political will to remove one of their own, and no prosecutor will ever dare to re-open the Kopechne file.  Besides, all the evidence has been destroyed.  But we can see justice by proxy via the ballot box.  Kennedy has been re-elected again and again with virtually no legitimate challenge in his long career... save one.  In 1994, a young upstart, with no real political experience, gave Kennedy the scare of his life.  Mitt Romney came close to dethroning the last of America's royalty.  But in the end, his political inexperience was no match for the entrenched Kennedy war machine.

That was 1994.

What has happened since then?

Since 1994, Mitt Romney has become a national figure thanks to his administration of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Park City, Utah.  And he has been elected Governor of Massachusetts: that's right, an avowedly right-wing religious conservative won the election in the liberal home of the Kennedy clan.  And since 1994, Ted Kennedy has... well, he's yelled a lot, not that you could understand most of what he said.  Romney has become a serious political challenger, while Kennedy has only become more of a laughingstock.

Mitt Romney may be thinking about running for the White House in 2008.  Or perhaps he is thinking about running against the junior Senator, a weakened fool named Kerry (who served in Vietnam), in 2008.  He has no chance to win the White House.  And his power might be wasted running against Kerry, who has suffered so much politically he could possibly be defeated by a lesser challenger.  So I urge you all to contact Governor Romney, and encourage him to take on the Beast.

It's time for a Romney-Kennedy rematch, and this time the outcome could be very, very different.

Comments

[nilonaik]

Kerry may be a waste of energy, but at least he is a man with a plan!

[Sailor Republica]

But he won't REVEAL that plan.

That's what gets my goat up.

Screw his plans for us, I wanna see his plans for his funeral after he gets de-elected in 2008.

[Gullyborg]

Don't worry, Sailor, niloniak is my #1 commenter and I am pretty sure she was implying exactly what you spelled out about Kerry's "plan."