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Not having the opportunity to say so long sucker farewell to Senator Ted Kennedy yesterday, I thought a tribute was in order today. Oh, boy!

Ted was an uber-wealthy, alcoholic, playboy who lived a life of hedonistic debauchery as he coasted through life thanks to his father's fortunes.

He eventually went on to buy himself a seat in the Senate, then went to work doing everything he could to destroy the principles and values that made America the beacon of hope for the entire world.

Not once did Ted Kennedy ever hesitate, when the opportunity arose to destroy individual liberty! Being the true-blue socialist he was, Kennedy believed that "we the people" were meant to be ruled (in sharp contrast to our Founding Fathers, who feared a ruling elite).

While Kennedy made this abundantly clear on a countless number of occassions, it was during the nomination hearings for Attorney General John Ashcroft, that Kennedy truly defined his elitist views.

During the first day of his hearings, Ashcroft was asked about the purpose of the 2nd Amendment, so he went about giving the Senate an important history lesson. As Ashcroft explained, the purpose of our constitutional protection of "the right of  the people to keep and bear arms," is as a measure of protection against the tyranny of government.

This, of course, threw the Statist Ted Kennedy into an absolute hissy-fit! Demonstrating his purposeful ignorance of the founding of our nation, he demanded that Ashcroft "apologize" (for speaking the truth?), crying "Our government? Tyrannical?"

Yes, but more specifically Ted ... The 2nd Amendment is a measure of protection against you!

In Federalist 46, James Madison (the principle author of the Constituion) made it clear and in no uncertain terms, that that the right to bear arms had nothing to do with hunting, or even self-defense. According to Madison, gun ownership was another element of the "checks and balances" of our republican system of government. In other words, individuals should own guns, because the government owns guns too.

And let's never forget too ... Using the fortune he inherited, the drunkard Ted Kennedy successfully bought himself a free pass after he murdered 28-year old Mary Jo Kopechne in 1969. Ted Kennedy was an Elitist indeed!

Should we remember Ted Kennedy?

Yes, we should remember Ted Kennedy. We should remember him specifically for who he was - the personification of tyranny.

Kennedy serves as the perfect reminder to "we the people" of just how truly corrupt, deceitful, and rotten our federal government has become. Kennedy thought of himself as a ruler - above the law, and thus above the people.

Calling institutionalized health care "the cause of his life," many Democrats are now hoping to change the name of their socialized health care scheme in his honor. You know something ... that makes perfect sense!

Because Kennedy of course, knew full well that the institutionalized system he championed can't possibly provide the same quality of medical care to everyone. He knew too, that the law of scarcity can't be magically erased by socialism. In fact, all Democrats who support this bill know this to be true.

What Kennedy also knew (so do all Democrats), is that in a state-run health care system, the politically-connected will always be first in line and receive the best treatment, while everyone else just waits in line. This is how socialized medicine has always worked, and it's the way it will always work in the future too.

And that my friends, is Ted Kennedy in a nut-shell ... A tyrannical ruler, who held individual rights in disgust.

For more on Ted Kennedy, please see The Other McCain's excellent coverage below:

Liberals exploit opportunity, rename it, 'Mary Jo Kopechne Health Care Bill'
No sooner had the "fat drunk who killed Mary Jo Kopechne" reached room temperature than Ted Kennedy's only rival for senatorial shamelessness, Kleagle Robert Byrd, sprang into action ...

Kopechne Day: A Solemn Tribute
"Mary Jo Kopechne wasn't a scion of one of American's wealthiest families; she was just a girl from an average, middle class family, whose idealism led her to Birmingham, Alabama, during the Civil Rights era ... We'll never know, of course, what direction her life would have taken ..."

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was 'a special pile of human excrement'?
Frankly, I never thought of the fat drunken lecherous senior senator from Massachusetts either as "special" or particularly "human," but ...

Bill O'Reilly is an obnoxious douchebag
"Talking Points Commentary," Aug. 26, 2008, with my notes in italic:

• Early this morning Ted Kennedy died from brain cancer, leaving behind a 46-year-record legacy in the U.S. Senate.

Also leaving behind a 28-year-old civil rights activist in an Oldsmobile he drove off a bridge while drunk ...

Updates:

By popular demand: Michael Kelly's 'A Sober Look at Ted Kennedy
Michael Kelly was a brilliant journalist who was killed during the Iraq war. At least a dozen readers have urged me to link this February 1990 GQ article by Kelly ...

Chappaquiddick, in brevis, and an exegesis of the infamous 'incident'
Right Girl sums it up:

The death of Mary Jo Kopechne was an accident, but his actions at the time of and in the weeks following the accident were beyond the pale. Poor, scared rich kid gets strings pulled to make the whole thing go away.

... in two sentences she has accurately distilled the essence of the narrative arc. Excuse me, however, for betraying my Bible-thumping roots, as I indulge in what evangelicals call exegesis of the text.

"Accident," yes. Yet when a man guzzles booze all day and then drives off a bridge, it is certainly not an unavoidable accident. The idea of Chappaquiddick as a "tragedy" whose main victim was Ted and the "Kennedy legacy" -- which is the manure load Ted's MSM hagiographers are now peddling -- is debunked by two stubborn facts pointed out yesterday ...

Classical Values Red Ted
It seems that Ted Kennedy had very good relations with the USSR before their much lamented demise.

Senator Kennedy, like other rational people, is very troubled by the current state of Soviet-American relations. Events are developing such that this relationship coupled with the general state of global affairs will make the situation even more dangerous. The main reason for this is Reagan's belligerence, and his firm commitment to deploy new American middle range nuclear weapons within Western Europe.

According to Kennedy, the current threat is due to the President's refusal to engage any modification on his politics. He feels that his domestic standing has been strengthened because of the well publicized improvement of the economy: inflation has been greatly reduced, production levels are increasing as is overall business activity. For these reasons, interest rates will continue to decline. The White House has portrayed this in the media as the "success of Reaganomics."

Good old Red Ted. Friend of the USSR. Champion of Health Care Socialism.