How Will You Remember Ted Kennedy?

Ted Kennedy rants on the floor about Alito. DOWNLOAD - .WMV via Expose The Left

There is something so ridiculous about Kennedy shouting indignation regarding women's rights. He has shown a lifetime of disrespect for women.

That being said, I will tell you a secret, and I will probably get hell for it. I have always felt sorry for Ted Kennedy. Yes, I know that much of the grief in his life has been self-inflicted. His womanizing, his cheating, his drinking, and the death of a young woman. People act out in all kinds of ways against their life. I think this is what he has done his whole life.

First he has heros for brothers. Forever immortalized by assassin's bullets and a war hero's death. A brilliant future for all them taken away and never to be diminished. For in death we cannot make mistakes.

He had a horrible power hungry father who worshiped power and money and never taught his boys to worship anything else. In the wake of his brother's death he experienced one failure after another. His marriage, his chance at the Presidency, his drinking, his women. He watched so many people that he loved die around him. With no faith to hold on to, that can be a burden that I would not wish upon anyone. He has had a dozen lifetimes of sorrow. His tribute at JFK Jr.'s funeral was one of the most touching and profoundly sad speeches I have ever heard.

Now that he has stopped drinking, settled into a decent marriage, I am sure he sees only one chance at respect. He sees himself as the great defender of "the march of progress." He believes it. With every fiber of his being, he believes what he says. Of that I have no doubt. He doesn't do this as Kerry did, for the NOW and NARAL support. He does it so that he can have a legacy as well. He clings to the hope that people will remember him as one who fought the dragons of the right. Who stood up to evil of the Republican party. At least, he tells himself, I did this.

It can be his only legacy after a lifetime of mistakes his brothers never made.