Bumper Sticker: Cheney v. Kennedy

Actually this was more than a bumper sticker, that which I viddied this morning whilst on my drive toward the city, this was more like a placard emblazoned across the width and breadth of the tailgate of the Dooley. It read:

I'D RATHER GO HUNTING WITH DICK CHENEY
THAN DRIVING WITH TED KENNEDY.



Hm.


well.


First reaction would be: Give Chappaquidick a rest, wouldya?! Most Americans no longer remember or, more truthfully, even KNEW about that incident. Doesn't even really make a blip in the history books. (but for those of you who DO want to know, then you can just Google it yerselves.)

In all honesty, the Dick Cheney shooting his friend in the chest happened just a short time ago, and it didn't even make a trickle in the pool of public indifference.

Which is a testament to our gullability, however, that the Republos didn't even HAVE to spin it. They just refused to comment, and it "quietly went away" shhhhhh! Be vewwwy qwiett! We're hunting wabbits!"

Alright then, since I'm already slobbering over this issue, lemme just say that a tragic incident (getting drunk in a car/letting innocent girl drown) happened when Kennedy was still just a kid, a novice, a newby, a spoiled little rich boy - and this was almost 40 years ago. And in all honesty, it pretty much helped to sober him up and get him on the right track for the rest of his career. Dick Cheney's what - 80 years old now? And the guy he blew away was another of his rich spoiled octogenarian buddies. There IS indeed a distinction to be made in the ages at which each of these little "indiscretions" were made.

But the point of the sticker was that Cheney's friend was just shot, while the girl died. True. And Kennedy's paid the price with his career - every time he tried to breathe "presidency" the thing came back to haunt him. Cheney, the trigger happy idiot, is STILL one heartbeat away from the Oral Office [typo intended!]

Finally, again, I'll state the major difference between the two incidents: Even though the young Ted was a complete coward, and let the girl drown, and waited a day before telling anybody, he STILL owned up to it on a televised apology afterward (yeah! After he knew it couldn't be spun, but whatever!) and yes, at the time he tried to make it sound like he tried some heroic rescue, which was pure rubbish - but he still owned up to his culpability.

Cheney on the other hand has just simply walked. Say nothing, everything's OK. If you just do nothing the American public, which has the attention span of a GNAT, will simply turn their attention to whomever J-Lo's marrying this week.

Let's face facts: The guy with that bumper sticker is a Republo idiot. Cheney and his rich Republo friends can get away with anything. Americans don't have the mental capacity to think about one topic for longer than fifteen seconds. And yeah, Ted might be guilty of manslaughter, but the only way he's ever gonna leave Capital Hill is in a body bag . . . and the way it looks, that won't happen until MY grandkids are octogenarians!!

So put THAT in yer pipe n' smoke it!!

VG