Dana Mathewson

Yesterday, 5:03 PMYou;Jack Kemp (sundialman2@aol.com);
Really? A bit late, but liberals will still get their noses WAY out of joint.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/09/a-chappaquiddick-reckoning-at-last.php

A Chappaquiddick Reckoning At Last? [With Comment by John]
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I paid no attention to the fact that Hollywood was producing a biopic of Ted Kennedy's famous 'accident' at Chappaquiddick in 1969, and would have assumed that it was a typical gauzy pro-Kennedy puff piece if I had known. But Variety magazine, the main trade journal of Hollywood, offers a review that not only says that the forthcoming movie Chappaquiddick is suitably harsh on Teddy, but that he

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A NOTE FROM JACK KEMP:


There are stories that speculated Mary Jo was pregnant with Ted Kennedy's child and she wanted to expose that fact to the press (as a good Catholic, she didn't want an abortion). That's why Kennedy felt compelled to remove this "problem" which, in the late 1960s, would have ended his Presidential quest, if not his Senatorial careerr as well. Of course, it did end his Presidential quest - and many Democrats, including Jimmy Carter, mentioned it in their campaigns against "The Swimmer."

AND THIS FROM DANA:

I've always believed that was the case -- that Mary Jo was pregnant. None of the Kennedy men were ever able to "keep their pants buttoned." Ted's actions on that fatal night certainly were those of a "conflicted" person. On the one hand, he didn't want his sweetheart to drown. On the other hand, he didn't want his career and his reputation to drown. For probably the first and last time in his life, he acted as if he had a conscience, truncated though it was.

A shame it didn't end his entire political career. He caused this country a lot of problems in the Senate.

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