Originally Posted By: BASAMS The Plumber

Here’s more of how Newsweek’s Meacham addressed Chappaquiddick as part of Kennedy’s legacy: In the sentiment of the moment — Ted Kennedy is dying, and the subject of his essay for us, health care, is his last great battle — we do him, and ourselves, a kind of disservice if we smooth over the rougher elements of his long story. Forty years ago to the day that we closed this essay, Kennedy drove off a bridge at Chappaquiddick in the darkness, crashing into the water and leaving his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, behind as he swam to the surface and left the scene. He did not report the accident until morning; only then was her body found.


American Spectator is a little more precise on what this creep did:
  • While Miss Kopechne may well still have been alive, this man, this senator
    • walked past four houses without asking for help,
    • returned to a guest cottage and did not call for help,
    • went back to his hotel and went to sleep,
    • awoke, showered, hung out on a hotel balcony with the winners of a regatta, chatting pleasantly,
    • took the ferry back to Chappaquiddick, ignoring aides' advice to report the incident, making numerous phone calls to others but still not reporting the incident....
  • and he still suffered no legal ramifications worth talking about, still stayed in office, and still had the appalling viciousness to slander Judge Robert Bork, smear all sorts of other Republicans, accuse President Bush of bribing foreign leaders, bent every rule of decency in his treatment of his ideological adversaries, set up sham investigations of judicial nominees, and in essence spent a whole career doing horrible things that only he could get away with, meanwhile seriously eroding our level of public discourse and of conduct in office (not to mention his awful private conduct for another two decades at least after Chappaquiddick).

    Ted Kennedy's actions on the night of July 18-19, 1969, were the actions of a reckless man and of an utter, pathetic, gutless coward.