Clearly, it’s not driving off a bridge and running away, leaving a staffer to die by suffocation. Or telling jokes about it later. It’s also not offering to collude with the Russians to interfere with a US presidential election — in 1984. And it’s not allegations of sexual assault, as in the “waitress sandwich” incident that includes former Senator Chris Dodd.
That’s just one Kennedy, mind you (Ted, if the memories are too distant at this point). There are also allegations of statutory rape, forcible rape, and even an alleged murder involving other members of the Kennedy clan. Did any of these cause the Kennedys as a group to publicly denounce and disown their own family members and call their actions a “betrayal” of their values?
Not to my recollection. To get disavowed as a Kennedy, you apparently have to something truly unconscionable … like endorsing a Republican:
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