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Reviling Kennedy

In “Cardin: Debt Paid” Andrew Buerger compares the Cardin family to the Kennedys and, implicitly, Jon Cardin to Ted Kennedy. Indeed, he talks about the “late Senator’s [Ted Kennedy’s] foibles.”

I would agree that the foolishness surrounding Jon Cardin’s romantic antics could be fairly be described as foibles, but Ted Kennedy?

Until 9/11 I was a very liberal Democrat. Yet, from Chappaquiddick on I reviled Ted Kennedy—not only for letting a young woman die, for fleeing the scene of an accident, for buying his way out of what would have almost certainly been serious jail time for anyone else, but, just as telling, for then having the chutzpah not to resign as U.S. senator (elected and re-elected by a majority of craven Massachusetts Dems for whom name and power are more important than character and integrity) and even daring 10 years later to run for the presidency.

From what I’ve read about him, Jon Cardin deserves better than to be compared to Ted Kennedy.

Jeff Knisbacher
Pikesville