GOP Rep. Chris Shays, who is in the fight of his life to save his seat in liberal Connecticut, proved his Republican bona fides this week by comparing the Foley scandal and its cover-up by his party’s leaders in the House with the drowning accident caused by Sen. Ted Kennedy at Chappaquiddick 37 years ago:
When the congressional page scandal broke last month, Democrats across the country saw a chance to lambaste Republican leadership – including [Shays' Democratic opponent] Diane Farrell, who called on House Speaker Dennis Hastert to step down.
But when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy came to Connecticut last week to help her campaign, Rep. Christopher Shays hit back.
“I know the speaker didn’t go over a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day,” said Shays, R-4th District, referring to the 1969 incident in which the Massachusetts Democrat drove a car that plunged into the water and a young campaign worker died.
“Dennis Hastert didn’t kill anybody,” he added.
Over the past two weeks, as a bizarre defense of the actions of Rep. Mark Foley’s predatory emails to House pages, Republicans have been bringing up the tragedy involving the young senator and the woman who drowned, Mary Jo Kopechne.
It’s too bad that Democrats don’t think like Republicans, or they would counter by reminding Republicans that First Lady Laura Bush also killed someone in her youth.
Nobody died from Bill Clinton’s consensual blowjob either but the Republicans impeached a president over it.
AMEN to the blow job! IT HAS NOT HURT ME but BUSHES STUPIDITY has HURT US ALL and yet look at all of the lies bush told and no one has even bothered to check him out!!!
WHY DON’t THE DEMS GET OFF THEIR ASS AND STAND UP TO THE DAM REPUGS! KENNEDYS mishap is no different than the LYING BUSHES OTHER ROTTEN SIDE
Maybe it’s time to bring up Bush’s cocaine arrest in Houston in 1972, his statutory rape of underage Robin Lowman or his homoerotic escapades with the Skull and Bones gang at Yale or his homosexual relationship with ambassador to Poland, Victor Ashe.
If we want to talk checkered pasts, Bush wins that contest hands-down!
He’s no hero. Teddy was married and went to a party with the “boys” to meet up with some young girls. He was 37ish. Mary Jo wanted to go home, she was 19. Teddy offered to drive her to the ferry. He turned off on a dirt road and tried to get her to have sex with him. She resisted and he hit her, she bled. A sheriff’s deputy saw the parked car and approached. Teddy sped off. He later drove the car into the water. He swam out and left her. He did not report his crime until over 8 hours later, when he found out the sheriff had found her body. Instead he was at his hotel room figuring out what to say and do. He later claimed they were on their way to the ferry (hours after it stopped running)and accidentally made a wrong turn. He said that there was nothing sexual and that he was not drunk. Both lies. Did he rape her and kill her? He intended to run for the presidentcy the following year. It was said Mary Jo stayed alive for 2 hours with her face in an air pocket. Some say she was already dead when the car hit the water. One thing is for sure, she never got the chance to tell what really happened to her, and Teddy was never punished. He also paid her parents to be quiet. It is all documented.