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Thursday, August 26, 2010
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The ultimate liberal symbol
EMK REDUX. With all the other terrible stuff that's going on right now, I realize people might not be in the mood for a look back at Teddy Kennedy, but he's been in the col' col' ground for a while now, and maybe it's time to consider what his real legacy is.
Hmmm? Ya think? How about "perfect symbol of the left"? No way one could have pointed this out a year ago when he actually died, because conservatives are such docile wimps that it would never occur to them to call a spade a spade, and especially not when great conservative moralists like Orange Hatch loved him so much they just couldn't stand it when he died: 'O Thou Great Lberal Lion.' Because if there's one thing conservatives are good at, it's abandoning all our principles in the face of some event that allows us to weep on our sleeves like some wholesome whore at the State Fair.
Unless Instapunk, as usual, has always been pretty much right about everything. Including the fact that Teddy Kennedy was the perfect embodiment of all modern liberal political policy. That this fat, rich, spoiled, corrupt, gluttonous, drunken piece of shit was notable only for having been the ultimate exemplar of what's laughingly considered the party of the people. That this woman-abusing sociopathic narcissist, who never held down a real, work-requiring job in his worthless life, who destroyed the life of his first wife and solicited underage teenagers for sex from the window of his limousine, while making the lives of his own children a livng hell, who is nevertheless considered an icon of liberal politics and liberal vision and liberal leadership -- uh, uh, VOMIT -- was somehow admirable.
Well, he wasn't. Enough time has elapsed that we can now tell the truth. He was a piece of shit. A turd. And a smelly one at that.
But he was a symbol. From his manboobs and ballooning gluttony to his inarticulate screamings, he was everything the liberal wing of the Democratic Party has been for two generations -- a hypocritical epitome of voracious appetites, old ideas, old disproven policies, old causes, and old self-justifications for a life that anybody but a committed liberal would regard as a wasted sprawl in a gutterful of deadly sins.
Couldn't have said this a year ago. But if he really was a Catholic, he's in Hell now. You don't get to support 30 million abortions and still be a Catholic in good standing. You don't get to wait for a young woman to die underwater in a slowly disappearing air pocket while you noodle out your political career, FOR HOURS, and still go to heaven yourself, not even if you're a Shanty Irish Kennedy.
They laid him in repose and millions came to watch and adore him. They're just lucky he didn't burst into fucking flames on his catafalque.
What I couldn't say a year ago I'll say now. Teddy Kennedy was pure and absolute slime. We don't get to judge? Oh yes we do. God doesn't want us to be neutral about murderers. Or did you miss that part of the Old Testament?
Teddy Kennedy is so-called liberal America. Think about that. Think about that.
