Summary
It's an odd thing about Ted Kennedy. No non-president in the politics of his time was more viciously, relentlessly reviled by voices on the other side of the political spectrum. In most of the years between 1968 and 1992, when the Democrats only held the presidency for four years -- and when many other Democrats were in ideological retreat -- he was the chief bull'seye of the haters.
He gave the targeters plenty of material, from the fact that he was elected to the Senate at an extraordinarily young age on the strength of his brother's name; to his role in the death of a young woman passenger in his car; to his uncowed advocacy of the liberal agenda; to his difficulties in speaking off-the-cuff; to his drinking and carousing.See the full content of this document
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Great Partisan Target Was Top Bipartisan
Bashing him proved irresistible for the right-wing warriors.
Yet, by the end, he was known -- with good reason -- as the great bipartisa...See the full content of this document
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