Effing GOP scumbag POS Christopher Shays plays the Chappaquiddick card

[Human Torch]

Shays on Foley handling: At least no one died
POSTED: 4:16 p.m. EDT, October 11, 2006

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/11/shays.kennedy.ap/index.html

HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- Republican Rep. Christopher Shays defended the House speaker's handling of a congressional page scandal, saying no one died like during the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident involving Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy. "I know the speaker didn't go over a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day," the embattled Connecticut congressman told The Hartford Courant in remarks published Wednesday. "Dennis Hastert didn't kill anybody," he added.

Shays' comments recalled the Chappaquiddick incident, when Kennedy's car ran off a Massachusetts bridge, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy did not immediately report the tragedy, and he later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident.

Last week, Kennedy campaigned for Democrat Diane Farrell, who is locked in a bitter fight with Shays that could help determine whether Democrats recapture the House after 12 years of GOP control. "This is symptomatic of Chris losing his composure in a tight race," Farrell said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday. "Chris just seems to be lashing out in anger."

Kennedy's office had a terse response. "This just makes clear the real need for change in November. Beyond that I'm not going to dignify such a desperate attack with a response," said Kennedy spokeswoman Melissa Wagoner.

[Erika]

1. The GOP isn't busy enough with their own scandals occurring now?

That they have to go back decades?

I thought Shays was a better person than that. They are desperate.

[kansasblue]

2. and half the country thinks 'Chappa-what? '

[C_U_L8R]

3. What does that have to do with ANYTHING ??

Is Shays senile?