Just a reminder so you won't forget, unless you're too young to know. My name is Mary Jo Kopechne. I would have been 65 years of age this year. When Sen. Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloating on Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore his deplorable past. But now that he's become a leading attack dog, positioning himself as Washington's leading arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such indulgence are now over. It's time to stand up and remind America why this chief spokesman had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 - time to say the words "Mary Jo Kopechne" out As is often the case, Republicans have deluded themselves into thinking that most Americans already know the story of how this "Conscience of the Democratic Party" left me behind to die in the water underneath the Edgartown Bridge in July 1969, after a night of drinking and partying (I was a young blonde campaign worker). But most Americans under 40 have never heard that story, or details of how Kennedy swam to safety, then tried to get his cousin Joe Garghan to say he was behind the wheel. Those young voters don't know how I was trapped insid Kennedy's Oldsmobile, gasped for air until I finally died, while the Democrats' leading critic of the Iraq war, Justice nominee Alito, and anything else Bush has tried to accomplish, rushed back to his compound to formulate the best alibi he could think of. Neither does Generation X know how Kennedy was thrown out of Harvard on his ear 15 years earlier -- for paying a fellow student to take his Spanish final. Or why the US Army denied him a commission because he cheated on tests.As they listen to the "Liberal Lion" accuse President Bush of "telling lie after lie after lie" to get America to go to war in Iraq, or denigrate the good character of soon-to-be Justice Alito, young voters don't know about that notorious 1991 Easter weekend in Palm Beach when Uncle Teddy rounded up his nephews for a night on the town, an evening that ended with one of them credibly accused of rape. It's time to state unabashedly that we will no longer "go along with the gag" when it comes to Uncle Ted's rants about deception and moral turpitude inside the Bush White House. If the Republicans don't, let's do it ourselves by passing this forgotten disgrace around the Internet to wake up memories of what a fraud and fake Teddy really is. The Democratic Party should be ashamed to have the national disgrace from Massachusetts as their spokesman. Frankly, this character probably ought to be strung up as a war criminal.