Ed asks a highly pertinent question:

Even allowing for the best possible spin on his actions that day, what kind of person jokes about an incident that left a young woman dead in the back of his own car?

A thoroughly evil, blindly self-involved, monstrous pig of a “man,” that’s what. Or, in other words, exactly the kind of vile dirtbag who would have brazenly, calculatingly left a young woman to die, walking past several pay phones on his way back to the party without bothering to call for help, even anonymously — including one that, as Ace notes, was a mere 150 yards away from the scene of the crime.

Incredible. Just incredible. And it’s important to remember that this literal oxygen thief is a hero to liberals — an indication that something is very, very wrong with those who lionize such a wretched blackguard, and a self-indictment they cannot answer except by rationalization and excuse-making.

Which just makes it all the worse. Not only was Kennedy himself allowed to escape the consequences of his cold, heartless, criminal behavior; so too do his ideological compatriots — these self-declared guardians of moral rectitude, these most compassionate of men, these shining lights of virtue and decency, who zealously declare that even one honorable battlefield death in patriotic defense of our nation is one too many — expect to escape facing up to the horrid implications of their own desire to look the other way and get on with the Grand Project.

In fact, it’s even worse than you might imagine; certainly, they’re bending over backwards to ensure that the truth about this ghastly murderer doesn’t interfere with their genuflection and canonization of him. That was entirely expected, if still thoroughly sick-making. But even that ignominious a roll in the Kennedy sewer isn’t enough for them. No, they’re even speculatively enlisting his victim in support of The Almighty Cause, stooping so low as to imagine that she herself would have gone gladly to her grisly demise so that the filthy pig could live on:

We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. What we don’t know, as always, could fill a Metrodome.

Still, ignorance doesn’t preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn’t automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.

Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.

Well, hey, who knows; maybe this ghoulish Kennedy sycophant would like to try it out herself with some other drunken Democrat Socialist sociopath some night and see. Or maybe she’d be willing to sacrifice her own daughter for this noble experiment, if she has one.

This “woman” flatly and unabashedly states earlier in the piece that Kopechne “got in a car driven by a 36-year-old senator with an alcohol problem and a cauldron full of demons, and wound up a controversial footnote in a dynasty.” Yeah, she did — and why is it that this remorseless murderer got off scot-free, his victim winding up “a footnote,” exactly? Here’s why: because “people” like this writer have made damned sure Kopechne got swept under the Kennedy rug, a victim not only of the most amoral man in American political history, but (eventually) of their own moral turpitude and power-lust.

Evidently, partisan politics overrides every impulse they may have towards humanity, decency, and appropriate shame.

Sure would love to see some of ‘em try out one of Jabba the Dirt-Nappin’ Senator’s astonishingly callous Chappaquiddick jokes on Mary Jo’s family, I must say. The result would be worth paying a large sum to witness. And maybe they’d learn something about civility and morality during their convalescence.

Oh, and lest we forget, this loathsome excrescence’s death is a lot like 9/11, too.

I’d have been content to remain silent on all this for a few more days yet at least, were it not for this fecal mudslide of depraved hagiography, and the insult to Kopechne’s memory implicit therein. But once again, we’re forced by their own outrageous assertion of honor, integrity, and decency on behalf of a low scoundrel who possessed not one of those qualities, and deserves not a moment’s consideration or forbearance on the part of any truly conscientious American, to consider the eternal question: Have you no shame, liberals? At long last, have you no shame?