Edward Kennedy Dies, Wingnuts Cover Themselves in Glory. (updated throughout the day, presumably)

This was inevitable.

Robert McCain:

Whenever Kennedy would inflict his pompous self-righteous liberal moralizing on us, I'd always hear Ann Coulter's immortal words: "Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment."

And so I've used that line for the last time. And the knowledge of that finality is the only sadness I feel about Ted Kennedy's death.

Roger Kimball:

The Kennedy family has issued a eulogistic statement about the death of the Senior Senator from Massachusetts. Right and proper, I suppose, but I couldn’t help recoiling from its lists: “Edward M. Kennedy — the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply — died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port.”

“Edward M. Kennedy,” I heard echoing behind those words, “Liar, cheat, drunk, philanderer, and — let’s not forget — inadvertent murderer.”

Roger L. Simon:

This was not a life well lived.

Jim Treacher:

Think of it this way: If they get to bring up Camelot, we get to bring up the lady in the lake.

William Jacbobson:

Another Wellstone memorial?

Macsmind:

No doubt know liberals will use his passing to trumpet the need for Universal Healthcare in “His Name”, count on it. The fact is it’s the last thing we should pass now that he’s dead. Let it go to dust just as he did.

Kevin McCullough:

It is indeed a sad day for the Kennedy clan. A beloved patriarch is gone. But for the nation, Kennedy's legacy is not even a mixed bag. It was an embarrassment, and I trust and hope that we are given a proper chance to recover from his impact in the days to come.

John J. Miller:

Three years ago, I wrote for NRO on My Senator and Me, an illustrated children's book by Ted Kennedy. Its narrator is a dog whose name is — I kid you not — "Splash."

The Anchoress:

What can one do when one is likely unfit for heaven, but possesses just enough charity and love to stave off hell?

Dan Riehl:

Given word of his passing, the Senate, as predicted by Rush Limbaugh, is considering re-naming the health care bill in Ted "The Liberal Liar Lion of the Senate" Kennedy's honor, while also amending it to include mandatory long distance swimming lessons, as well as CPR and breath control classes for all Americans.