Over the last few years, his fallback on any baiting is "Kennedy/Chappaquiddick" or "Clinton/BlueDress".

Lately he has taken to sending me all these funny sites spoofing K/C, without any opening provocation from me! And today, he needled me one too many times and here are my two email responses to him!

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I dont want to stoop to that level, but...

since you keep pointing out this one admittedly grave error in judgement from Ted's past, did you know the following?

1. George Bush had a girlfriend for whom he got an abortion destroying his "child"?

2. Did you know that she later died under very mysterious circumstances?

3. Did you know that the Bush Crime Family (BCF for short in knowledgeable democratic circles) has "suicided" off many of their political enemies?

4. Did you know that the BFEE (Bush Family Evil Empire) has extensive ties to Bin Laden's family (both via the Carlyle group and outside of it) and that Prescott Bush (Poppy's poppy, Connecticut Senator) had extensive financial ties to Hitler and his minions?

5. Did you know that Neil Bush's failed savings and loan was bailed out by the US treasury to the tune of billions of dollars? Did you know Dubya himself raised half a penny in taxes in Arlington to par lay his measly 750k (1%) stake in the Baseball team into a $14 million dollar return? Do you know of Jeb's connections to all kinds of Florida underbelly denizens? Did you know of Neil's serial involvement with prostitutes in the US and Philippines and the messy, ugly divorce that resulted from this?

6. Finally (not because I am out of dirt on the BCF/BFEE, but because I am out of time), did you know that Laura Bush, in a drunken stint with her car, knocked and killed off her best friend's boyfriend?

I can supply you with links for all of these if you are interested in finding out the awful truth about the criminals ruling this country now. But, if you are stuck with one powerless senator's one gross negligence once long ago, I guess we blue state of minders have to suffer through your petty little indulgences while the ranks of the poor and healthcare-less swell, while the troops die and get maimed in the 1000s because the pentagon is too busy shoveling all the money to Halliburton and other cronies, while the arctic shelf melts, and the world waits with bated breath for some responsible adults to shepherd the world's most powerful country, be my guest. You can be conservative and I can respect you for that; but after the unfolding of this maladministration, if you are still (a) cheerleading them and (b) nitpicking on the powerless Democrats, I hope you are content to learn that you will have succeeded in helping take the greatest nation in the world back to the 4th century BC.

Your Kennedy citations would be funny, if the Dems were in power and he was actually saying something about somebody's personal integrity. I would any day choose the personal foibles of the dems over the organized crime that are rethug maladministrations.

Wake up and smell the stench: the Dems do not control anything right now, the Republicans do -- you hold those in power accountable, if you are a responsible citizen; you do not keep picking on people that are at the bottom of the totem pole.

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================================My second response==========================================
Sorry for the tone, I think I am becoming very dispirited by the base 35 to 40% support he still seems to get and you were a convenient target, I guess.

While I readily apologize for returning fire on a joke, I do wish you would start to think outside the usual constructs. The transgressions of the elected dems currently are too minor, small in scope, and mostly private. What the elected repubs are doing to us and the world is unconscionable.

If you do consider me a friend, please start thinking about what is happening to our country and the world. Don't fall for this Ted Kennedy bait -- he is too irrelevant, as is every liberal. While every single social milestone has been achieved by them (liberals, that is!), the Republicans have so demonized them on a personal basis and so tarred the word liberal (and yet they want a liberal democracy for Iraq and the ME, go figure!) that there is nothing that the committed liberals can do any more. The revolution has to come from within. Only viscerally Republican people such as you can start to change this deadend dynamic we are in. Think carefully and look wide, please, as your special favor to me (and your children, really: the national debt for instance!).

Here is really reprehensible behavior, if you are looking for one (remember this one I am talking about was not a mistake, it was the conscious product of a great many minds' conscious and conspicuous deliberations!): the Republican conventioneers in 2004 sported purple heart bandaids mocking Kerry -- think about the deeper implications of this kind of behavior vis-a-vis the "we support our troops" mantra that they spout. Here is a clue: there are some 35+ Iraq war veterans running for Congress -- at most 1 (again: ONE) is running under the Republican banner. Considering that the military is touted to be 80+ % Republican, why do you think this might be?