No Tears for Ted
2009-09-11 - by
One of the great falsehoods peddled by Jim Hunt-haters – and repeated in a recent comment on this site – is that he cried after Ted Kennedy’s speech to the 1980 convention.
Sorry, haters. It didn’t happen.
I was there. Standing beside Hunt on the floor of Madison Square Garden during Kennedy’s speech.
Yes, it was moving. Hunt and I agreed it may have been the best speech we ever heard. And some people surely were crying.
But we had just spent that week – and several months – battling Kennedy on behalf of Jimmy Carter.
Hunt liked Ted Kennedy. He had organized college campuses for John Kennedy in 1960. But he thought Carter was the kind of moderate Democrats needed. He supported Carter’s balanced-budget plank.
So there were no tears when Teddy lost.
Of course, I don’t expect anything like the facts to stand in the way of a good hate. Rant on.
No Tears for Ted
2009-09-11/
One of the great falsehoods peddled by Jim Hunt-haters – and repeated in a recent comment on this site – is that he cried after Ted Kennedy’s speech to the 1980 convention.
Sorry, haters. It didn’t happen.
I was there. Standing beside Hunt on the floor of Madison Square Garden during Kennedy’s speech.
Yes, it was moving. Hunt and I agreed it may have been the best speech we ever heard. And some people surely were crying.
But we had just spent that week – and several months – battling Kennedy on behalf of Jimmy Carter.
Hunt liked Ted Kennedy. He had organized college campuses for John Kennedy in 1960. But he thought Carter was the kind of moderate Democrats needed. He supported Carter’s balanced-budget plank.
So there were no tears when Teddy lost.
Of course, I don’t expect anything like the facts to stand in the way of a good hate. Rant on.