Whatever Teddy heard afterward was the nutshell version of the issue but never the process they went through for arriving at their conclusions. That was the gap in his political education.

For whatever… he was a brilliant speech writer. He had a gift for stringing meaningful words together. Perhaps this was indirectly evidence of the guilt and mental pain he endured resulting from Chappaquiddick?

I really don’t know-

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Democrats: Honor Kennedy with health care overhaul

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I wasn’t disputing what you said. I was simply adding what I felt myself was appropriate. Just my personal opinion and of course you as well are more than welcome to ignore it and move on.

House GOP Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Rush Limbaugh are pictured.
Rep. Cantor took a break from his usual partisan ‘whip up’ email Weds morning, and Limbaugh was ‘a little uncomfortable’ attacking Kennedy’s politics. But not every foe is ready to forgive and forget. Photo: AP photo composite by POLITICO

Washington mourned the passing of the last of the Kennedy brothers Wednesday, with everyone from Barack Obama and Joe Biden to Orrin Hatch and Nancy Reagan offering heartfelt tributes to the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

House GOP Whip Eric Cantor took a break from his usual partisan “whip up” email Wednesday morning “in consideration of the news,” and the usually incendiary conservative blogger Michelle Malkin called for Republican restraint in the face of “a nauseating excess of MSM hagiographies and lionizations.”

But not every Kennedy foe was ready to forgive and forget.

While Kennedy was popular among many of his Republican colleagues on the Hill, he was for decades a major bogeyman for the right. Among veteran Kennedy-bashers, the family name is associated less with Camelot than with positions which are anathema to conservatives — and Kennedy himself is known less as a senator’s senator and more as the man responsible for the death of a young woman in an automobile accident more than four decades ago.

The No. 1 search term at Google Trends Wednesday morning was “Ted Kennedy.” Nos. 2 and 3: “Mary Jo Kopechne” and “Chappaquiddick.”

Andrew Breitbart, a Washington Times columnist who oversees Breitbart.com and BigHollywood.com, tapped into the anti-Kennedy vein in the hours after the senator’s death was announced, posting a series of Twitter messages in which he called Kennedy a “villain,” a “duplicitous bastard” and a “prick.”

“I’m more than willing to go off decorum to ensure THIS MAN is not beatified,” Breitbart wrote. “Sorry, he destroyed lives. And he knew it.”

Few – if any – others on the right were willing to attack Kennedy so directly so soon. Instead, they did so indirectly, teeing off against the Democrats who will eulogize Kennedy and the reporters who are covering it all. The fear: The Democrats and their allies in the press will use Kennedy’s death to ram through health care reform.

Rush Limbaugh, on his radio show, said he was “a little uncomfortable” attacking Kennedy’s politics but knocked the Clintons for being slow to offer a statement on the senator’s death. Limbaugh also reminded listeners that about a year ago, he “predicted [Democrats] would use his eventual death as the sympathy trigger to get health care passed.”

“Looking forward to the Democratic line-up at TK’s memorial service,” Hot Air’s AllahPundit wrote in a sarcastic Twitter post. “I’m sure the eulogies won’t be politicized at all.”

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The minute TK announced he had brain cancer Obama wrote him off his list of influential friends that could be of help to him.

There is a recent video out there of TK receiving an award from BO. Obama has a little seen idiosyncrasy about touching people who are diseased, as if whatever they have is catching.. In this video, Obama can’t even look at TK for more than a sec or two… shades of grandma.