The Dems showed a lot of gall tonight, airing a “tribute” to Ted Kennedy in which much time was devoted to showing in minute detail how Kennedy kicked Mitt Romney’s ass around the block a couple of times in their Senate race, showed Romney making a foolish dick out of himself defending his support of a woman’s right to choose, and generally making a vague, supercilous tax-return-hiding fool out of himself.
What kind of EMK tribute was that? You;d think that EMK himself would have stayed above the partisan bickering, wouldn’t you, and sidestepped the cheap political potshots. Right? Kennedy would never have approved of introducing politics into a memorial discussion, would he have?
I assume this is a joke. I am sure he wouldn’t think twice about it. He certainly reveled in the ass kicking he was administering at the time. I liked that it also got video of Mitt descibing his position on choice as completely the opposite of his current position, and played Kennedy’s bit on being pro-choice while Romney was multiple choice.
I thought it was great and Teddy would have roared his approval. Watching Kennedy take Romney apart was a bit like watching a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Don Knotts. It was a great video and that it contained some great takedowns of Romney made it that much better. Well done, DNC!
Haven’t seen the video and I don’t do Twitter, but isn’t this kind of thing likely to backfire on Obama? “Yeah, back then we had a real Democrat who knew how to do an election” – highlighting that Obama has never faced a serious opponent from the other party in his life. And it opens the obvious retort: “Mr. President, I knew Ted Kennedy. I faced Ted Kennedy in an election. Ted Kennedy was a respected opponent of mine. Mr. Obama . . . you’re no Ted Kennedy.”
