"For the first time in 47 years, Massachusetts is not represented by a senator named Kennedy," Jim Antle writes at the American Spectator. "But the trend of being represented by Kennedys and Kennedy consiglieres is still going more than a half-century strong." This is because Ted Kennedy's replacement, like John F. Kennedy's replacement, was hand-picked by the Kennedy family. Then, President-elect Jack Kennedy threatened to resign from the senate after the incoming Republican governor was sworn in unless the outgoing Democratic governor selected Kennedy's college roommate as senator. Now, Paul Kirk, Ted Kennedy's longtime aide who serves as chairman of the board of the John F. Kennedy Library and, until last week, served on the board of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, fills the seat once held by Jack Kennedy, his Harvard buddy Ben Smith, and then Kennedy's brother Ted. For fifty-seven years, Kennedys, or honorary Kennedys, have held this senate seat--that three members of the Lodge family have also held--to the exclusion of everyone else. There is something about dynastic politics that smells foul to anyone truly American.

These people are arrogant, sleazy and all around disgusting.

Beats me how people idolize such a flawed and caustic lot.

Mark Steyn sums it up nicely in the following Airbrushing Mary Jo and how people who condone the Kennedy mis-deeds then and now are somehow complicit in their dirty dealings. That goes in spades for around here......

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