Praising Ted

It was interesting to hear about the tributes the Democrats paid Ted Kennedy at their recent convention. This was a man who was guilty of at least negligent  homicide (and possibly much worse) when he ran his car into the water at Chappaquiddick, left his female passenger to die, and did not report the event for several hours.  One might think that a bunch of people accusing their opponents of waging a war against women would have been at least a little concerned about that. This is also a man whose offers to the  Soviets in the 1980’s  to help them undermine this country’s strategies in the last years  of the Cold War were either treason or the next thing to it. Since many Democrats now like to claim that those in their party  were right there doing their part in winning the Cold War, one might think this might have been seen as at least awkward. Then there is the fact that he spent most of his life as a drunken, womanizing, rich kid living high on family money he did not earn.  One might think a few people in the party would have noticed that the man was a walking example of the stereotype of the vulgar, useless, wealthy parasite.

That none of this seems to have mattered at all, either to the Democrats or the people in the traditional media covering the convention, suggests once again that for them a person’s character and even his crimes are  irrelevant so long as he follows the correct political line.