Ted Cruz makes a Mary Jo Kopechne joke, quoted in
"Kennedyesque? Texans get close-up comparison as Beto O'Rourke stumps with Joe Kennedy III" (Dallas Morning News).
In Corpus, O'Rourke began by asking Kennedy to play chauffeur and as he often does, letting viewers come along for the ride via Facebook Live. They bantered. O'Rourke teased Kennedy for being unable to figure out the windshield wipers as a brief downpour hit....
Asked in McAllen about Cruz's jab, Kennedy said... "My family — I'm proud of the contribution that they have made to this country and the sacrifice that they have made to this country.... My uncle fought his entire life to try make sure that everybody got access to health care...
Everybody? Everybody except that one person.
... because of the challenges that he saw with his own son almost losing his life to cancer as a boy. And you have a senator [Cruz] that shut down the federal government to try to deny millions of people access to health care. Texas obviously has a choice to make."
IN THE COMMENTS: wendybar said:
Well, Beto is like Ted Kennedy. He drove drunk got in an accident and left the scene. He really COULD be the next Kennedy.
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A Kennedy engaging in demagoguery? Who could imagine?
Well, Beto is like Ted Kennedy. He drove drunk got in an accident and left the scene. He really COULD be the next Kennedy.
Cruz was attempting to shut down hospitals and clinics so people could not get access to health care?
Oh Beto is lying, he is talking about subsidized insurance and trying to frighten dummies by saying health care.
Too bad smart people let Beto frighten the poor dummies unable to fend intellectually for themselves.
They say when you die, and they bury you in the ground, you become worm food.
Watch enough politics and this becomes fitting.
Beto promised to run a positive campaign.
I guess that didn't work.
Polling suggests Beto’s got three weeks of fame left. It’s been interesting to see the hundreds of fawning think pieces and thousands of man hours achieve just about nothing.
Sisyphus not Ted.
Anyone who voted for or lent support to Ted Kennedy after July 1969 lost the moral authority to criticize the choices anyone else makes in the voting booth.
Robert Francis has one ad that is played over and over and over. Especially during local news and any sportsball games. He talks about not being democrats or republicans, but being Texans and Americans. Long on pablum, short on specifics. And it's about the only one we see here in the Dallas area.
The problem? He has this nasty-ass cold sore on his upper lip and it's on HD tv. It is nauseating. I have talked with a few friends and they all noticed it too. Even liberals in Austin!
Herpes and High Definition television just don't mix. And the ad itself is so soporific that you don't listen and just focus on the suppurating pustule. We all hope he's not going around kissing babies with that lip.
O’Rourke tried to leave the scene. A motorist that witnessed the accident stopped him. He was arrested at the accident scene with a .13 BAC.
CBS can greenlight a new show--Everybody Loves Beto--when he loses to Cruz in a few weeks.
Would a Kennedy be of any campaign value in Texas?
The invitation to a Kennedy is a certain sign of pure white-knuckled despair in the Beto camp.
"Beto, I knew Ted Kennedy. You're no Ted Kennedy. You couldn't carry Ted Kennedy's flippers."
"My uncle fought his entire life to try make sure that everybody got access to health care...
"Everybody? Everybody except that one person."
Perfect.
The Kennedys are genetically incapable of operating anything more complex than a still. Joe Junior atomized himself in a B-24. The plane was designated as a BQ-8, supposedly a drone aircraft intended to destroy a V-2 launching site by crash-diving with 10 tons of torpex on board. When Joe Junior was at the controls two meanings of the word drone applied at once.
John F's PT-109 was famously sliced in twain by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. The details of that incident are still cloudy, but it stands to reason that a small, highly maneuverable boat ought to be able to evade a 400-foot ship. Still, John got a Navy Cross, perhaps the first time such an award was given to a captain who lost his vessel. Kennedy was never called before a board of inquiry, a routine procedure in the case of sinkings, and the press coverage made him out as the one and only hero of the whole affair, giving no credit to the other officers and the native coastwatchers who risked more than there own lives to rescue the PT-109 survivors. Joe Senior pulled a lot of strings we can be sure.
John-John followed in Uncle Joe's footsteps, and there the famous drowning of Mary Jo by Uncle Ted.
"Beta" the Fake Mexican.
Nobody seems much concerned over whether Robert Francis O'Rourke's hard drinking ever led to him getting blackout drunk and forming rape gangs.
Maybe Justice Kavanaugh should have gotten people to call him Benício.
Beto has raised a lot of money and generated a lotta publicity. He’s kinda like the “It Guy” - the male analog to AOC, the current “It Girl” on the Left.
The Left really wants to turn Texas blue, just as they turned Ronnie Reagan’s California blue. But Texans don’t wanna become blue.
@Quaestor. Nice summary. What is it about the Kennedy's and bodies (ha) of water? Maybe that's why they prefer alcohol.
If Beto loses, he can always relocate up here in New England. I'll keep an eye out for him.
Headline in Vanity Fair: "BETO O’ROURKE, DEMOCRATIC DREAMBOAT, IS GETTING HIS ASS KICKED IN TEXAS"
Ouch.
Wendy Davis was Abortion Barbie -> Beto is Drunk Driving Ken.
^^^^^ Democratic Dreamboat? With a Kennedy at the helm. Hey, whatever floats your boat.
And when I find myself falling for some girl
I hop that into that car of mine and take her for a whirl
Shanklin's The Philanderer
Knowing Ted, he was probably more likely (or perhaps also) referencing JKIII's father, JKII, who was responsible for the accident that paralyzed Pam Kelley.
Joe Kennedy? In Texas? Other than the base, who finds that appealing?
Imagine a white, conservative candidate assuming a Hispanic name when running against a candidate of actual Hispanic ancestry. The media attacks would be brutal.
But, hey, that smile! The skate board! He's, he's positively Kennedy reborn.
Hope he doesn't take up flying as a hobby.
Just what we need in politics. More Kennedy and more Clinton.
The crime family endures.
Imagine Ted Cruz campaigning for Joe Kennedy's opponent here in Massachusetts' 4th district.
Except Joe 3 is running unopposed.
Beto was on the rowing team.
That's cheating...
My uncle fought his entire life to try make sure that everybody got access to health care ... because of the challenges that he saw with his own son almost losing his life to cancer as a boy
I don't follow the Kennedys all that well, so I don't know - would this be the same son that his wife was home in Boston gestating when Piece of Shit Ted was trying to fuck a staffer and wound up killing her instead?
I don't think those two lightweights can muster a proper "waitress sandwich".
“They say when you die, and they bury you in the ground, you become worm food.
Watch enough politics and this becomes fitting.”
Which is a great argument for cremation in both instances.
"My uncle fought his entire life to try make sure that everybody got access to health care..."
Well, he failed now didn't he. And I can think of one person that he didn't fight for.
"Ted Cruz makes a Mary Jo Kopechne joke..."
As SweatBee alludes, it was JKIV's father, JKIII, "who was responsible for the accident that paralyzed Pam Kelley".
From the NYT... 1973
NANTUCKET, Mass., Aug. 20 (UPI)—Joseph P. Kennedy 3d, oldest son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was convicted today of negligent driving that resulted in an accident that at least temporarily paralyzed a teen‐age girl. He was fined $100.
“You had a great father and you have a great mother,” District Court Judge George Anastas told Mr. Kennedy, 20 years old. “Use your illustrious name as an asset instead of coming into court like this.”
Isn’t calling yourself Beto cultural appropriation if you’re white?
And Rafael goes by Ted, a shortened version of his middle name Edward.
Ted’s mom is 75% mick and 25% dago American. His dad is Cuban but his grandparents are from Spain. Ted’s basically criollo on his dad’s side.
We basically have a race between a mick and a half-mick. So it’s only appropriate to have a Kennedy pitch in to swing the Irish vote in Texas to the full mick and way from the half mick.
It should be pointed out that the governors of Massachusetts 1965-1975 overlapping both Ted and Joe Kennedy's accidents were Republicans.
Can you say: BLAME THE POT HOLES!
Except instead of coffee it was Chivas Regal and beer in the cup holders.
"Beto, would you vote to approve anyone on Trump's list of potential SCOTUS nominees?"
"I'll cross that bridge when I come to it."
bi said...
Wendy Davis was Abortion Barbie -> Beto is Drunk Driving Ken.
I like it. What ever happened to Wendy ?
... because of the challenges that he saw with his own son almost losing his life to cancer as a boy. And you have a senator [Cruz] that shut down the federal government to try to deny millions of people access to health care. Texas obviously has a choice to make."
Nixon offered Teddy NHC. Teddy declined. He wanted the issue more.
@Michael K,
Doubled up on your pain meds again? You are headed for liver and kidney failure. You already have full-blown dementia. You saddle the government with you medical bills. Hypocrite!
Who doesn't have ACCESS to healthcare? Who didn't have ACCESS to healthcare before Obamacare? Who lost ACCESS to healthcare since Trump became POTUS?
-sw
Michael K -- Wendy is in the same place Beto will be a a few years. Obscurity.
Ted Cruz attacking a lefty dem with a Kennedy joke!
Ha!
LLR Chuck is not going to like that one bit.
The only thing Cruz could have done that would anger Chuck more is tossing in some criticism of Dick Durbin as well!
Well done Ted! Keep pissin' off the dems/lefties/LLR's and you'll be in great shape.
To be fair, Drago, Chuck, fopdoodle extraordinaire, would be just as mad if somebody criticized Richard Blumenthal.
Wait, EDH: There are four of them now? Joe Kennedys are like tribbles; I can't keep up.
I couldn't pick Joe Kennedy out from a line-up. Beto needs some celebrities to campaign for him. Has he thought about Bruce Springsteen? Maybe he can get Springsteen to painfully grunt out one of his hits, with the words changed to "Beto."
"Beto, he was born to run... away from an accident."
Wendy Davis. There's a name that you don't hear much anymore. Did her sneaker endorsement deal fall through?
"Everybody? Everybody except that one person."
-- Haven't you heard? "If she had lived ... Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to [Mary Jo Kopechne] in her old age.”
The Boston globe original article.
I recommend that, if Kennedy is driving, Robert Francis O'Rourke confine his campaigning to West Texas, where open water is rarer.
I guess things went swimmingly on that chauffeur bit in Texas. Not a whole lot of water out in West Texas though so Beto O'Rourke is safe.
"I couldn't pick Joe Kennedy out from a line-up."
Hint, its the ginger retard who is drooling.
Birkel: "To be fair, Drago, Chuck, fopdoodle extraordinaire, would be just as mad if somebody criticized Richard Blumenthal."
True.
I stand corrected.
I am so old I can remember when the Kennedy's killed their women 1 at a time.
It's all about Rafael having to spend more party money. This type of deplorable snowflake triggering helps.
Blogger Comanche Voter said...
I guess things went swimmingly on that chauffeur bit in Texas. Not a whole lot of water out in West Texas though so Beto O'Rourke is safe.
There's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedernales_River'> the Pedernales </a> but that is not all the way west.
"Bobbie," as they are now calling him, was probably OK. Also, he is not a girl. They really need to stay our of Kennedy cars.
Crazy trumpit has not yet been locked up, I see.
I have never understood the logic of the Beto phenomenon, and especially why the Democratic Party has encouraged it. He literally has no chance of winning next month unless Cruz is caught in bed with dead boy or a living girl. Why the Democrats have allowed Beto to suck up so much money and attention is self-defeating for the party, though I imagine that Beto himself will make out just fine with a sinecure at CNN or MSNBC. I mean, seriously, who thought campaigning with Kennedy in Texas was a good campaign move for getting elected Senator? I don't think even Beto himself thought he had a snowball's chance in Hell of winning, but the Democrat Party is paying for his personal advancement all the same. Beto ain't stupid- his campaign isn't to become to Senator- I give him credit for that.
It would be the equivalent of the Republican Party helping in financing an expensive Senate Campaign Massachusetts or California this cycle.
dems have way more money than reps this cycle. using that delta as a weapon
Ted Kennedy transformed his opportunity to be a hero into manslaughter. He was a drunken womanizing schmuck who solicited Russia to intervene in our political process, advocated for socialized medicine and defamed Robert Bork. In other words, he was a good Democrat who was lionized by the leftmedia despite reality.
Even Cruz understands now.
Without the republican party deceiving and betraying republican voters and the completely discredited media being completely ineffectual it will be interesting to see what the plutarchs come up with to retain control over their DC apparatus.
Howard said...
dems have way more money than reps this cycle. using that delta as a weapon
The plutarchs used to fund democrats and republicans.
We ran all of their tools out of the republican party and their control of DC is slipping.
They are going to give a lot of money to the democrats to keep control.
But it wont work now.
Does it suck being a tool?
It will be fun watching leftists adjust to being the objects of ridicule.
Howard said...
dems have way more money than reps this cycle. using that delta as a weapon
Hillary Clinton did not find that to be decisive in 2016.
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