opinion of ted Kennedy

[Mr. Smith]

 Lean HP for blocking UHC twice in the name of "not being liberal enough", and for his hijinx in 1980 that drove a good man out of office and put in the Reagan by splitting up the left from Carter.

His Human Rights campaigns are noble for sure, but ultimately 1980 undoes all that.

And a coattail rider off his far savvier, smarter, and nobler brothers RFK and JFK

[Mr. Smith]

It's fairly interesting/surprising how many Atlas lefties despise TK. Even the Daily Kos/MoveOn crowd adores him.

MoveOn and DailyKos tend to be (especially the case with DailyKos) sheltered urban latte sippers ignorant and hateful of suburban or rural areas, but especially the South, and they idolize the Northeast, and especially big-name Democrats of the Northeast [Left Coast or around Chicago will also work]...so of course TK looks good to them.

Atlasia I would like to think is a little better than that. More scrutinizing of everything before coming to a conclusion, not stopping at the lip service.

[Mr. Smith]

I must admit I'm not too familiar with Chappaquiddick, but voted FF because I appreciate his wonderful stances and actions. Impressive that despite coming from a privileged background, he did so much for the less fortunate.

Oh you mean pretty much block the one stump issue he had going just because a Republican President agreed with it, stampede the efforts of Jimmy Carter left and right on pretty much every issue while he was president (including on UHC again), followed by the nastiest primary challenge this side of 1924 in 1980?

You have to be kidding me.