Ted Kennedy: Fiction Versus Reality

One of the hoary Republican caricatures is the one they paint of Ted Kennedy. Politics is as much about trafficking in voter ignorance as it is about revealing truths, and so it is always useful to pull away the patina of misinformation to get back to reality. Today's Boston Globe issues its predictable but instructive endorsement of Kennedy. (Admit it -- you had no idea that Kennedy was up for reelection.) In so doing they hint at why the Republican demonization is a function more of cynicism than of reality.