You have gotta be freaking kidding me. You know, I obviously didn’t know Mary Jo Kopechne, nor do I know anyone who knew her or loved her. But I’m pretty sure that Mary Jo wasn’t willing to die in order for Ted Kennedy to have a long career in the Senate, regardless of how dedicated she may have been to liberal causes.

But for perverted ex-lawyer and liberal HuffPo writer Melissa Lafsky, apparently there’s a possibility that Mary Jo would have thought that dying was “worth it”. Worth what is unclear. Ted Kennedy spent the rest of his life happily exploiting and abusing women (and quite possibly raping a few), drinking himself into oblivion, and acting as if he was American royalty. Who knows what Mary Jo Kopechne might have done with her life, but apparently nothing she might have accomplished would have been good enough, because apparently Ted Kennedy’s life was simply worth more. Thinking that a man’s career is worth more than a woman’s life is despicable and remarkably sexist (although I bet Jessica Valenti and the Feministing crew won’t care because good ole Teddy was such an ardent supporter of abortion, which is all you need to buy off the feminists these days).

We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. What we don’t know, as always, could fill a Metrodome.

Still, ignorance doesn’t preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn’t automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.

Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.

It’s ridiculous to think about just how low liberals will sink in order to deify someone, just because they’re a liberal and have the right last name. It really makes me sick to my stomach. Are there no morals, no principles left for them? None at all?