I think I've hit a nerve with the whole Kopechne-Care thing. I've gotten a small mountain of criticism on the various message boards where it's been posted. Mostly it's the kind of childish name-calling you would expect from eternally immature Democrats. And not only does it not phase me, I wear their childish rants as a badge of honor.
Personally I think Jonah Goldberg gets the best hate-mail I've ever read (and I've told him so repeatedly). Of course he has a natural advantage. Being Jewish and the son of a well known conservative columnist, he manages to attract anti-Semitism like a lightning rod. (Anti-Semitism is much more common on the left than the right FYI.) And those people are so crazy that even their email seems to be written in crayon. He also does this for a living so he has a MUCH wider audience; deservedly so if you ask me.
Compared to his stuff, the little bit of high chair banging I’ve seen is small potatoes. Still, it’s got me fantasizing about being able to talk to some of these people face to face. I'd look them in the eye and say "You don't REALLY think this guy was great do you? He was one of the most reprehensible characters of the 20th century.... you don't really think he was impressive just because of his last name do you? Really?! If I change my name to Guevara... can I be considered great too?"
But the truth is... it wouldn't matter. Liberals believe that morality should be a personal thing, so none of them care about Ted's faults. Their philosophy is designed around avoiding feelings of guilt so there are all kinds of horrible things they're willing to forgive in the name of self congratulation. So long as your 'intent' seems OK to them, they don't care a hoot what the effect of your actions are. You can burn western civilization to the ground and so long as your goal was to help sick kids with puppies that were being exploited by an evil ‘rich guy’ with a dastardly whiplash mustache, it will all be forgiven. They have a sort of pathological short sightedness that effects everything they do.
They don't realize what a mistake that is. They forget that the supporters of every tyrant of the 20th century felt exactly the same way, and were all using the same kind of tortured logic. In their minds, 100 million dead in the 20th century was just 'the price that had to be paid' to bring the world closer to socialist perfection. They convinced themselves that it was all for the greater good and were prepared to forgive anything toward that end, no matter how terrible.
And now those same people cast a twisted eye upon Ted’s life and say "What's the life of one girl sacrificed to give us a career like Ted's? What does one life count when measured against 'The Lion of the Senate". That kind of moral relativism disgusts me; as it should you. It leads down civilization’s darkest road. It leads to history’s biggest graveyard where 100 million innocent civilians were sacrificed ‘for the greater good’.
Ted was no hero. It wasn’t even close. And you people who believe otherwise have something seriously wrong with you too. You had better get over to the shrink and find a way to get past this because the world is more dangerous with you in it.
%%%%UPDATE%%%%
Remember when I said:
In fact, if my grandfather had spent a little more time selling whiskey instead of drinking it, then we could be talking about my family. And maybe I could be sitting in an ancestral congressional seat waiting for my dad to die so I can move into the Senate."
Well in yet another case of life imitating art, Enter Joe Kennedy Jr. and Vicki Kennedy.
I make my living predicting what other people are going to do. But sometimes I wish you liberals didn't make it quite so easy.
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