They argued against it because they didn’t know if she even knew how to drive (which wouldn’t have been surprising at that time). So the wheels were in motion early to make it seem to be her fault.

So yes, he cheated the system and no, it isn’t an exaggeration of fact.

There are just so many telling moments. It gave me nightmares last night to think of her trapped in that car, gasping for air and waiting for a rescue that never came.

I felt a kind of kinship to JFK’s kids, as I “grew up” with them. But Caroline fell off the radar (only to emerge recently to humiliate herself), so I just followed John Jr. He seemed pretty decent. In a lot of ways, he seemed like a “regular person”.

Everyone I’ve seen post on this in his favor seem to forget about all the other that worked on the legislation, it wasn’t a one man act. Plus it sure is coincidental that each time something came out that could jeopardize him, one of these fabulous bills came from Teddy. That he was the only one that got credit for the work. Even if it had been in the works for years and Teddy just signed on at the end.

The murder of a woman. Sex with underage girls? How many? The waitress sandwich. Getting his nephew off from rape when it was never proven he was even there or knew what was going on. Sex with lobbyist in public place while he was married. Etc. Women’s groups with the same mentality we’ve seen since his death ignoring all the above. These aren’t groups protecting women’s rights, these are Democrat groups. Or perhaps one of them would like to tell me just how many women are expendable? Where is the line drawn?

In 1990, GQ magazine ran a devastating profile of Kennedy. Two 16-year-old girls near the Capitol startled by a limo rolling up, the door opening, Ted sitting in the back with a bottle of wine, asking one, then the other, to join.

A former aide who acted as Ted’s “pimp.” His penchant for dating women so young that one did not know he was the subject of many books. Kennedy, at a swank DC restaurant with his drinking buddy Chris Dodd, throwing a petite waitress on his dinner table with such force that glass and flatware shatters and goes flying. Then Ted throws her on to Dodd’s lap and grinds against her. He is interrupted by other waitstaff. He is later caught in the same restaurant, in a semi-private area, having sex on the floor with a lobbyist.

In 1991, Kennedy’s nephew William Kennedy Smith is charged with rape. Kennedy Smith had been out drinking with Ted and Ted’s son Patrick at Au Bar in Palm Beach. Kennedy Smith is eventually acquitted, and it’s never proved that Ted had any knowledge of what happened on the Kennedy grounds that night. He remarried, in 1992, and very publicly domesticated himself.

But the tawdriness — the ostensible elder statesmen getting s – - t-faced and picking up women with his son and his nephew; the acquittal won, in part, by shredding the accuser on the stand and in the press; privilege winning out, always — is in such stark contrast to Kennedy’s politics that you have to wonder: Is this really what Kennedy thought of women?

Most feminists don’t think Ted Kennedy was a misogynist. Upon news of his death, NOW, Emily’s List and Planned Parenthood all released emotional, laudatory statements. It’s true that Kennedy’s legislative record deserves such a response. And he was quiet enough in the last 15 years of his life that it’s not hard to minimize his past behavior if you want to.

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