Reply #22: He could have had a good legacy AND after he passes on it will be good for a while

[TlalocW]

Because the conserva-bots will praise him endlessly, focusing mainly on his military career, but as the Daily Show pointed out, we are moving, inexorably, towards gays serving openly in the military - it WILL happen. And after X number of years, when the majority of people don't consider it a big deal, there will be documentaries about the fight, and every documentary about civil rights needs a bad guy (like Wallace and integration), and he'll be it. And to make him look worse, the documentary will highlight and amplify everything remotely negative about him - stuff that we talked about on DU that were (rightly) glossed over by the Obama campaign like his cheating on his first wife, etc.

That will be highlighted, and his marriage to Cindy will be spun as a way for him to become wealthy enough to constantly run for office. Sarah Palin will hopefully have disappeared from the national stage by then and will openly be considered a laughingstock - even by the RW media who worship her now, and her political career will be blamed on him. Keating 5 stuff, long considered ancient history, will be brought up, and even his time in the military will be disparaged. All this stuff and much more will be part of the documentary as they show him becoming more demented and angrier as the last years of his Senate career/life are played out.

And he deserves it.

TlalocW