"Still, ignorance doesn't preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn't automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted's death, and what she'd have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.
Who knows -- maybe she'd feel it was worth it."
Melissa Lafsky,
Huffington Post columnist in article, What would Mary Joe Kopechne have thought of Ted Kennedy's career?
PS Trapped in a car. Water rising. Dark. No help. All alone. Unable to breath. Panicking. Driven off the bridge by a drunk, privileged, self-absorbed, spoiled rich kid.
Mary Jo Kopechne drowned while Kennedy, instead of being a decent human being and calling for help, contacted his lawyer. For nine hours, while she remained submerged in Poucha Pond, Kennedy wrote out his police statement. Then, when good and prepared, he called authorities.
To Kennedy, Kopechne was a minor annoyance, a brief spat of bad publicity, and a favorite joke.
"One of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself. He would ask people, 'Have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?"You are solely responsible for the death of a 28-year-old woman, a woman you not only drove into a pond but left there to die, and you joke about it.
Ed Klein, former editor of Newsweek and New York Times Magazine
So to answer Lafsky's question: What would Mary Jo Kopechne have thought of Ted Kennedy's career? That is wasn't worth her life.
UPDATE:
I'm not done being mad about this, yet. I wanted to add another thought:
Liberals expect women to die for greedy, womanizing men and like it? If you're a feminist and hanging out with lefties, watch your back.
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