>>>>>It's not a filibuster proof majority. Please check your facts. It was for a time and then t
>>>Chappaquiddick, yeah, there's that. I don't believe anyone still alive truly knows what happened. Maybe I am giving him a break here but the theory that makes the most sense to me is that he wasn't even in the car, she was the one driving. That bridge looks treacherous in photos but he had been in that area his whole life and should not have had any difficulty driving across it. A really short bridge. Were they having an affair? Almost certainly. But it makes no sense that he would have killed her or failed to save her. The theory has it that she had dropped him off, for unknown reasons, and was driving back around the island. It also explains the long delay before he reported it -- he didn't know.
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>>I've been reading about that incident since the day it happened and I can honestly say I've never heard the theory "he wasn't in the car" before. Where did that come from ? And is any explanation offered for his own admission he *was* driving the car? Seriously, I'd love to read more about this "alternate theory" of the crime. Who proposed it?
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>>REVISED - just googled and found references to what you are talking about and I have to say I'd never heard of those sources so but the idea still seems absurd - since the idea of Teddy "taking the rap" for something he *really* didn't do is really beyond belief.
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>>It is believed she lived for two hours in that car under water while Teddy figured out how to cover his ass. If somebody wants to rail against wealth and privilege a good target would be the failure to indict him.
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>As I said, I don't know. Any more than you do. Not sure what you googled up but the article I meant was written by a Newsweek reporter. An editor, I think. That probably won't convince you, Newsweek being part of the vast left wing media conspiracy, but it's my best remembrance.
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>I'll do some googling of my own and try to find the references you mention.

Google all you like. I makes reference to a book that came out in 70 or so with somebody trying to cash in. Kennedy said he was driving the car and left her to die. If you believe he sacrificed himself so she would get points on her license it will fit right in with Kennedy worship. <s>

( wow, and *editor* at Newsweek. I wonder if he went to Harvard. That would pretty much clinch it <g> )