For the fanatics over at Red State dot com, Senator Edward Kennedy didn't deserve even one day of peace and respect. Birther Erick Erickson uses the occasion of Senate Kennedy's death to launch a typical right-wing screed on Kennedy, Senator Kerry, and the people of Massachusetts.
I had hopes for better from that group of assholes, but should have known better. The writer starts by recounting the graciousness shown by Senator Kennedy, when I'm sure he had other things he could have been doing on behalf of sane people.
Read it for yourself. Maybe I'm hyper-sensitive at this point so soon after the loss of Senator Kennedy, and all that means for the American people. If I were going to be that big of an asshole, I think I could have waited for a day, or two.
Apparently, hoping for decency from right-wingers is too much to ask, regardless of the circumstances.
"Senator Edward Kennedy is dead.
I had an encounter with Senator Kennedy once. When I was in law school I wrote a paper on campaign finance laws as they relate to the media. I had to interview ‘two people of note.’ I chose Tony Snow and Senator Kennedy — Kennedy just to see if I could get to someone like that and impress my law school professor.
I could. He was surprisingly accessible.
He was very nice, generous with his time, and disagreed with me on everything. We completely and totally disagreed. He got a laugh out of it, as did I.
I can’t say that I’ll miss him. He, to me, represented all that is wrong with Washington — a kingdom of nepotism and worship at the alter of failed liberal policies that get repeated ad infinitum. He opposed school choice for the poor while segregating his kids from the poor in school. He supported policies opposed to life except when life could be advanced through the destruction of the unborn. He opposed a strong national security against even the evidence of its necessity during his brother’s Presidential administration.
Ted Kennedy supported the expansion of the welfare state and a culture of dependency on government, made all the more tragic given how ensnared his life was to dependency. He should have known better given his own life and that of his family.
And then there’s Mary Jo Kopechne. May she rest in peace.
Senator Edward Moore Kennedy of Massachusetts is dead at 77. John Kerry is now the senior senator. God help that state."
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's affability and capability to span the partisan divide prompted an outpouring of condolences from those in the GOP as well as the Democratic Party following his death Tuesday.