The Last Hurrah

Joseph Kennedy was a bootlegger and Nazi sympathizer. He spawned womanizing sons and had his daughter lobotomized for being as promiscuous as her brothers. Joe Kennedy used his underworld connections to manipulate vote results in Chicago and West Virginia to secure the Presidency for JFK. Ted Kennedy drowned a young, pregnant campaign worker, Mary Jo Kopechne negligently or deliberately. Teddy somehow remained in the good graces of the Roman Catholic Church despite being one of abortion on demand's staunchest defenders. He even had the Church annul a long-term marriage that had produced children to trade in a wife for a younger, more sober partner. Teddy's young physician cousin was accused of rape after picking up a woman at the Au Bar in Palm Beach in the first case I can recall in the modern era of journalistic discretion where the name of an alleged rape victim was involuntarily outed (by Kennedy sympathizers in the media). Kennedy relative Tommy Skakel managed to evade justice for decades after the rape and murder of Martha Moxely. Edward Kennedy and Chris Dodd notoriously made a "waitress sandwich" at a Washington D.C. area steakhouse-I wonder if they were small tippers. I will not endorse the poor judgement of Massachusetts' voters nor the paeans of Kennedy's Republican colleagues-who mostly think very little of their own conservative voters while offering praise to an arch-socialist. He was no lion of the Senate, nor the conscience of Congress, but a flawed and dissipated man who goes to face the Lord.