The Salt Lake Tribune
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Best buds
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch has finished his musical ode to Sen. Ted Kennedy.

Conservative Republican Hatch says he was encouraged by several Democratic senators to put to music his feelings about liberal Ted Kennedy. They hope to play Hatch's ditty, Headed Home, as a tribute to Teddy at next month's Democratic convention, proof that friendship can rip through party lines.

Hatch and Kennedy have share a bond perplexing to many conservatives back in Utah. Hatch says Kennedy is "a special person to me. I want to honor him this way."

Hatch says his lyrics refer to Kennedy's heroic return to the Senate after being treated for a brain tumor:

Sailing home, sailing home. America, America, we're headed home at last . . .
Just honor him, honor him, and every fear will be a thing of the past. . . .

It's probably too late to bring this up, Orrin, but where I come from, "gone home" is a euphemism equivalent to "bought the farm" or "pushing up daisies." It gives the song a distinctly different twist.

7 Comments:

At July 16, 2008 8:54 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is proof that the legendary Kennedy charm can seduce just about anyone, including stick-in-the-mud Mormon bishops from Utah.

 
At July 16, 2008 9:55 AM , Blogger King said...

I have great admiration for Kennedy and his two ambushed brothers.

Hatch, though, is an ugly, debasing, uncaring pile of crap. No personality, no patriotism, no courage.

Ugly.

 
At July 16, 2008 11:16 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

King,
It's a good thing your post stopped at ugly, and didn't say the words which make Utahns the most irate:
Baby
Black!

 
At July 16, 2008 3:46 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hatch and Kennedy are from the same party -- Incumbents R Us.

 
At July 16, 2008 6:58 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ted Kennedy drove his car into a lake and let his female passenger drown.

I have about as much respect for Kennedy as I do Mark Hacking.

The Kennedy's are void of virtue.

 
At July 16, 2008 6:59 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kennedy was nice enough to wait a whole day before reporting the death of that woman.

What a hero!

RIP Teddy you piece of shit.

 
At July 17, 2008 4:12 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sorry guys ...

Mary Jo did NOT "drown". Good Old "Teddy" left her there to die.

http://www.ytedk.com/

 

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