Beto O’Rourke has been making his rounds through the media. He’s a U.S. Representative for Texas, and this year he has decided to challenge Ted Cruz for the Senate.
As another avid socialist, he has all of the support of mainstream media and the rabid left. His radical policies somehow haven’t been enough to make him a laughingstock in Texas. He is celebrated for having a failed music career and being the son of a low-level politician.
All of this seems pretty run of the mill for the left these days, but O’Rourke has a dark past. That shouldn’t surprise you, but it’s important to know the details. His shady actions share frightening similarity to Ted Kennedy’s darkest hour.
Chappaquiddick
If you haven’t seen the movie that was released earlier this year, and you don’t remember, the Chappaquiddick incident is arguably the most disturbing moment in all of American politics. Senator Ted Kennedy drunkenly drove his car off of a bridge.
Before we get into the gruesome details, stop and note a few things. One: he was already a Senator when this happened. Two: he was clearly drunk as he drove off of a bridge with no other traffic present.
Now, this happened in 1969. Drunk driving didn’t carry the stigma that it does today. Nevertheless, driving off a bridge did constitute criminal negligence. Even worse, Kennedy failed to report the crime for roughly 10 hours. That’s another potentially criminal action he took in this incident. It might have been simply embarrassing for the Senator if not for the final detail. There was a passenger in the car.
A woman named Mary Jo Kopechne was in the passenger seat, and she drowned. Kennedy quite literally killed her, and then he tried to cover it up until the car was found the next morning. At minimum, this should have been a manslaughter charge. Instead, it was all swept under the rug and Kennedy remained a Senator for decades.
He was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, and his absurdly light sentence was suspended. He faced no consequences, and this remains one of the great stains on American politics.
O’Rourke
O’Rourke’s accident has plenty of details that differ from Chappaquiddick. His crash was in 1998. He received a DUI penalty. Also, his crash happened just outside of El Paso, TX. Also, he was the son of a county judge and not a Senator/Kennedy. The final difference is that he didn’t kill anybody. Probably.
O’Rourke was clearly drunk when he was driving along I-10 just outside of El Paso. He was so drunk that he hit another vehicle, smashed through the median and careened into oncoming traffic. When everything stopped, he tried to flee the scene, but since he wasn’t a Kennedy, a witness to the accident kept him from escaping. The police found him at the scene and charged him.
At this point the lack of death makes this accident seem like small potatoes when compared to Kennedy, but this is where things get weird. O’Rourke insists that he had a passenger in the car with him. That passenger was never mentioned in any police report, and none of the witnesses present remember her. We also know the passenger was a her because O’Rourke claims as much.
This leaves two possibilities. Either he had someone stashed in the trunk, or he has completely fabricated the existence of another person at that accident. In either case, no one on the planet can identify this person or corroborate O’Rourke’s claims.
A Penchant for Criminals
The most important similarity between these two crashes is that men with powerful families escaped what should have been felony convictions. Fully knowing this, Democrats propped both men, and they both served in the highest levels of our federal legislature.
These are the men the left wants and have protected. The only reason O’Rourke doesn’t have more blood on his hands than Kennedy did is blind, dumb luck. It’s a good thing he didn’t kill anyone, but his actions and his character are of someone who doesn’t mind if people die for the sake of his good time.
The left’s persistent endorsement of these men should be their confession. They go after Trump for saying mean things even while they praise killers and would-be killers as heroes. It’s disgusting. When you go to the polls this November, remember this. Nobody on the right is perfect, but we don’t celebrate reckless endangerment, drunk driving and manslaughter.
