[bloa]Ted

Jay Nordlinger recalls another example of just what a jackass [bloa]Ted has been in his sorry life in today's Impromptus column, but since I can't link directly to that part, I'll reproduce it below:

How �bout that Mitt Romney? Smooth fellow, isn�t he? It looked like he just might beat Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts in �94, when Romney was the Republican senatorial nominee. That was about the worst year the Democrats ever had, and Romney was an able candidate. Teddy was genuinely vulnerable. But then, at the last second, Kennedy and the Democrats played the Mormon card � they reminded the state that Romney was a Mormon, and Kennedy said that the Mormons were just beastly about blacks and women and other important people. It was a slimy, rotten thing to do � and, of course, no one called him on it, except for a few of us -wingers, because the media are protective of Kennedy and Mormons are one minority group they have no interest in standing up for.

So Kennedy got away with it, and it was, again, lousy � a rotten thing from a rotten man, I don�t care what George W. says. Or the people in his Crawford coffee shop.

Oh well. At least he didn't take anyone swimming.

[Posted at 23:21 CST on 02/11/02] [Link]