In many ways, I find Teddy to be the most loathsome of the Kennedy boys, but I suppose the fruit didn’t fall too far from the tree. After all, his dad had Ted’s retarded sister lobotomized…

You probably got it right – what Ted Kennedy did which was horribly wrong was cover it up as best he could; he was very much being talked up as the Democrat’s standard bearer for 1972 and everything seemed to have been done to try and preserve Ted’s viability…didn’t work; there was no way to actually get past the corpse.

Maybe, maybe not. When I think of this accident, I’m reminded of a friend who told me that, faced with a head-on collision, he believed it was best to swerve at the last second to avoid a head-on impact.

A few weeks later, I came on him at the scene of an accident. True to his word, at the last second he’d swerved. But what impressed me was that he’d swerved to take the impact on his side rather than that of his passenger.

The real issue isn’t whether Ed Kennedy later tried to rescue his passenger as she gasped for air. It’s why he didn’t have enough manhood or decency to push her out of the car ahead of his rich liberal self. Trapped in that car, his first and only thought was saving himself.

There’s also the fact that if he gone to a house about 100 yards away and reported the accident, a volunteer diving team could have been there in about an hour, when perhaps she was still alive.

Anyway you look at it, Ed Kennedy’s behavior that night was most unimpressive. And we can thank her parents for making it clear to him that, if he ever ran for president, they’d also hit the road and appear in every city at the same time as he. That’s perhaps why school kids with never have to learn about two Kennedy’s who were president.

–Mike Perry