I pit Crafter Man-In regards to Ted Kennedy's Death

[Sleeps_With_Butterflies]

At least he killed that Mary Jo Kopechne bitch.

[ElvisL1ves]

@Smeghead

Dead. So is his other one.

To the tune of “The Irish Washer Woman”

McTavish is dead and his brother don’t know it,
His brother is dead and McTavish don’t know it,
They’re both of them dead and they’re in the same bed,
But neither one knows that the other one’s dead.
Thank you, thank you.

[Enderw24]

@Sleeps_With_Butterflies

At least he killed that Mary Jo Kopechne bitch.

Hey now. What if the children she didn’t have would have been reading this?

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@Sleeps_With_Butterflies

At least he killed that Mary Jo Kopechne bitch.

Gosh, I missed you.

[Guinastasia]

@Smeghead

Dead. So is his other one.

And don’t forget the other one.

[The_Tooth]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

How do you know how effective Crafter_Man is at his job, huh?

Well, you don’t see any socialists around, do you? Scared off, I presume.

[Lemur866]

That’s why I always carry my magic socialist-repelling rock.

[boytyperanma]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

Why don’t you share some of his important legislation with us?

Ones he was noted as writing or being a major contributor to:

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
National Cancer Act of 1971
Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974
COBRA Act of 1985
Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Ryan White AIDS Care Act in 1990
Civil Rights Act of 1991
National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993
Mental Health Parity Act in 1996 and 2008
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in 1996
State Children’s Health Insurance Program in 1997
Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act 2001
No Child Left Behind Act in 2002
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act 2003
Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act in 2009

[Jimmy_Joe_Meager]

@jakesteele

Rush … Michael Moore and Ann Coulter

In a threeway.

[drpepper]

@Malthus

Even in the Pit, let’s try to remember the positives.

Ted Kennedy’s life was about a driving need to cross bridges to make connections. It was about plunging deeply into the river of experience and leaving the dead weight behind. It was about drinking in fully the heady brew of politics, speeding widly into the hurly-burly without a care, taking some hard knocks, picking oneself up and heading into the twilight with no regrets and without looking back. Sure Ted was a big spender, but he had a big heart, and he knew you can’t get anything worthwhile done without spending a few Kopechs. Who knows - he might have been President, if only he had hit the breaks.

Winner winner chicken dinner.

[Captain_Carrot]

@Maeglin

The same can be said of Strom Thurmond.

Actually, no, it can’t. Thurmond and Kennedy did not have the same sort of Senate careers at all.

[VinylTurnip]

@The_Tooth

Well, you don’t see any socialists around, do you?

Well, no. Without my special sunglasses, they just look like ordinary people.

[PatriotGrrrl]

I just want to say that I would have posted that about most politicians I disagreed with. It’s nothing personal.

[begbert2]

I honeslty can’t say a single good thing about Ted Kennedy.

Um, who is he again? I gather he was a politician, and that he’s dead, but neither of those are necessarily good things…

[Captain_Amazing]

@boytyperanma

Ones he was noted as writing or being a major contributor to:

[list of bills]

Well, it’s possible that Crafter_Man thinks that those are bad bills or shouldn’t have been passed.

[Sleeps_With_Butterflies]

@Enderw24

Hey now. What if the children she didn’t have would have been reading this?

Fuck those kids. The eggs went down with the ship.

[Crafter_Man]

That’s all you’ve got? Surely the OP can find a quote of mine that is more pit-worthy.

@Captain_Amazing

Well, it’s possible that Crafter_Man thinks that those are bad bills or shouldn’t have been passed.

Yes. Very possible.

[Rhythmdvl]

@VinylTurnip

Well, no. Without my special sunglasses, they just look like ordinary people.

Yeah, but put them back on … formaldehyde face!!!
I do wish some folks would stop with the Mary Jo comments, because they come across as absurdly disingenuous. Not that I don’t think you’re wholly unsympathetic to her death, but its vilification has a ring of hat-hanging. Take a look at the Strom or Novak threads… plenty of vitriol for their works and politics. This seems like such a convenient excuse for hate.

As for the pitting, it’s kind of poor. We have death-dancing threads all the time about conservatives, and while the what’s wrong with you is usually brought up in-thread, I’m pretty sure most OPs and dance partners don’t get pitted for it.

Challenge: Name a long-term, iconic conservative whose death would warrant the better-than-usual treatment Kennedy has gotten.

[mswas]

@Sleeps_With_Butterflies

Fuck those kids. The eggs went down with the ship.

That’s happening with more and more these days, no?

[samclem]

@Malthus

Even in the Pit, let’s try to remember the positives.

Ted Kennedy’s life was about a driving need to cross bridges to make connections. It was about plunging deeply into the river of experience and leaving the dead weight behind. It was about drinking in fully the heady brew of politics, speeding widly into the hurly-burly without a care, taking some hard knocks, picking oneself up and heading into the twilight with no regrets and without looking back. Sure Ted was a big spender, but he had a big heart, and he knew you can’t get anything worthwhile done without spending a few Kopechs. Who knows - he might have been President, if only he had hit the breaks.

@Maeglin

Please tell me that took you at least 30 minutes to compose.

Nah. Cut and paste don’t take that long.