The "Lion" Sleeps Tonight

The "Liberal Lion" Ted Kennedy has died. Right off the bat, I am going to differentiate myself from the vast majority of liberal bloggers who have, at one time or another, wished any number of conservatives dead of cancer. Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Tony Snow, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham-and many more have had the most disgusting and disturbing things wished upon them by the animals at the hate sites like "Daily Kos" and the "Huffington Post."

I have yet to see a conservative sink to the lowest of lows that libs have, and I do not intend to break that streak. I will state unequivocally that I do not wish what Teddy went through on anyone-even the most heinous of liberals (too redundant?). However, unlike all news outlets today, I also refuse to trip over myself to attempt to find even one redeeming quality the man ever exhibited. I am sincerely and utterly at a loss in this regard. As a conservative, I believe in redemption and that no human life is a waste, but Teddy Kennedy sure has challenged me in this belief.

What I fear now is that the Dems are going to use his death as a rallying cry to push Obama's radically socialist health care agenda through. We all know that health care "reform" was one of Kennedy's biggest priorities (although, like the anointed one, he would have been exempted from having to enroll in the government option). One cannot help but wonder how much sooner he would have died and how much poorer his quality of life would have been had he been subjected to the rationed health care that is surely coming our way.

History is replete with stories of Teddy Kennedy's excess-how he would "accidentally" walk in to a room nude to the horror of young ladies, his booze-fueled frat boy antics at Au Bar in Palm Beach with his accused rapist nephew, and oh, that little thing called Chappaquiddick. The irony of all ironies is how Teddy fought to change the law in Massachusetts so that if Kerry had been elected president in 2004, then Republican Governor Mitt Romney could not name a Republican successor-that a special election had to be held. As his death drew closer, Kennedy begged the Massachusetts state legislators to change the law back so that the present Democrat governor could name a successor. This, of course was so the health care plan would not be jeopardized. No hypocrisy there though.

Just like the month following the election that ACORN stole for Obama, I cannot stand to watch the news right now. I simply cannot stomach watching the jackasses on both sides of the aisle serving up the platitudes for one of the most destructive forces in our government's history.

Like I said at the beginning of this post, I do not relish the fact that this man suffered or that his family lost a loved one. But the sad fact remains-he still lived a full 40 years longer than poor Mary Jo Kopechne.