RIP Mary Jo Kopechne

It makes me very sad that Mary Jo Kopechne is just a footnote in Ted Kennedy’s byline. Now that he is dead she is about to be forgotten by history. That makes me very sad.

Who?

She’s less forgotten than she would have been had Ted not maliciously nailed her inside that car, laughing maniacally all the while.

You conservatives just love the past, don’t you? Worshiping Ronald Reagan, who left office two decades ago, and obsessing over this forty-year-old accident. As Michael Steele said, apparently non-ironically, “President Reagan would have had no patience with those who look constantly to the past.”

I’m not a conservative. This thread isn’t about Ronald Reagan, it’s about Mary Jo Kopechne.

And I disagree with your cavalier attitude regarding her life. If she had lived to be an old woman she might have kids and grandkids who would remember her.

As if she’d have been remembered for anything else.

Have you combed the obituaries for obscure unfortunate deaths today? Maybe you could start a thread for one of them, if this is really something other than a dig at Ted Kennedy.

You don’t think that potential kids or grandkids would remember her for giving them life?

I’m no fan of Ted Kennedy but 40 years is a long time. Truth be told, many of us will come to be uncomfortable with who we were 40 years earlier.

Don’t much care, just like I don’t much care about the people I don’t know whose lives were tragically cut short by car accidents this morning.

You know, I personally find all the people masturbating over her corpse today a little distasteful.

Right, right, you just agree with everything in the American version of their philosophy.

No, it isn’t. It’s about you yammering “Ted got away with murder! Waaaahhh!”

I’ve done far more in my life than Kopechne ever would have, and I’m not a footnote in ANY annuls of history.

No I don’t. I pretty much think Reagan was a moron.

So Mary Jo Kopechne’s life is immaterial as long as you get to bash conservatives or in lieu of a conservative me?

That isn’t the point. I am not talking about being remembered by history. I have kids, so because of that I will be remembered at least into the next generation.

Just out of curiosity MWAS, do your thoughts turn to J. D. Tippit every November 22?

Then you probably shouldn’t have included the line “forgotten by history” in your OP.

I am baffled as to how you think this is even pertinent.

People remember history. Children are people. Not everything in this life is about celebrity. Even people who are not celebrities have lives of meaning and value.

How is it not, if this is just about lives tragically cut short?

ETA oh, and now you’re just completely talking out your ass. Blahblahblah tragic blahblahblah not political blahblahblah just so sad blahblahblahfishcakes.

And Kopechne has a wikipedia page. She’ll be remembered until electrons stop working.

Ted didn’t restrain her inside the car, he just avoided getting the authorities involved until he sobered up, and she wound up drowning as a result of this choice.

Thankfully, the state came down on him hard with that 2 month suspended sentence.

Good point. Mary Jo Kopechne - Wikipedia