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   From: Dr.Goldblatt@G00GLE.0RG   
      
   Teddy Kennedy Killed Me!!!!! Hello, My name is Mary Jo Kopechne. I'm   
   dead because of Teddy Kennedy.   
      
      
   Hello, My name is Mary Jo Kopechne. I would have been 65 years of age   
   this year. I could have been married and had children. I could have   
   been a lawyer, or a doctor! But all of my dreams came to an end when a   
   drunken slob by the name of Teddy Kennedy killed me. 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.   
      
   Neither does Generation X know how Kennedy was thrown out of Harvard   
   on his ear 15 years earlier -- for paying a fellow student to take his   
   Spanish final. Or why the US Army denied him a commission because he   
   cheated on tests.   
      
   As they listen to the DemocRATs' "Liberal Lion" accuse President Bush   
   of "telling lie after lie after lie" to get America to go to war in   
   Iraq, young voters don't know about that notorious 1991 Easter weekend   
   in Palm Beach, when Uncle Teddy rounded up his nephews for a night on   
   the town, an evening that ended with one of them credibly accused of   
   rape. It's time for Republicans to state unabashedly that they will no   
   longer "go along with the gag" when it comes to Uncle Ted's rants   
   about deception and moral turpitude inside the Bush White House And if   
   the Republicans don't, let's do it ourselves by passing this forgotten   
   disgrace around the Internet to wake up memories of what a fraud and   
   fake Teddy really is. The DemocRATic Party, not to mention Sen. John   
   Kerry, should be ashamed to have the national disgrace from   
   Massachusetts as their spokesman. And the GOP needs to say so out   
   loud. I remember all of this and I'm sure most of you do, too.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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