I certainly hope so. If ever there was an overrated and probably destructive family it was the Kennedy’s. The old man was a Nazi sympathizer, JFK was a reckless womanizer whose hyperactive libido and general ill health was covered up by a compliant media, Bobby was a ruthless Attorney General who wiretapped Martin Luther King, Teddy got away with manslaughter, many of the kids have been in trouble with the law, etc. Funny how JFK would be considered way too conservative now by the current Democrats.
by Phil Boehmke
The Kennedy clan has to be wondering lately, what the ____ (fill in blank) happened? The past year has not been kind to America’s Royal Family. With yet another brutal winter storm having virtually shut down America’s capital, our liberal friends in those snowy climbs will have ample time to pause and reflect on the demise of the Kennedys during the past year.
First Caroline met with unexpected criticism in her quest to fill Hillary Clinton’s term in the Senate, whereupon she withdrew from consideration. What the ____ (fill in blank) happened? She’s JFK’s daughter! She’s Teddy’s niece! Her uncle RFK was a senator from New York! Qualifications? For a Kennedy?Then came that dark day when Teddy passed away. The last Kennedy brother (with the exception of Barack Obama) was gone, and with him his political and family influence. As the Liberal Lion prepared to face divine justice for Mary Jo Kopechne and other lesser crimes, the family was preparing to lay claim to “the Kennedy seat.”
Joe Kennedy, Jr.’s name was floated as his uncle Teddy’s rightful successor. Joe Jr. had served in Congress and looked like the logical choice to maintain the Kennedy legacy in the Senate. Then out of nowhere came stories of Joe Jr.’s connection to Hugo Chávez. Mark Tapscott in The Washington Examiner wrote:
There are at least three reasons why Joe Kennedy should not be a U.S. senator from any state. First, he’s not only a defender of a declared enemy of the U.S., but is also guilty of shamelessly using that enemy’s resources in an unsuccessful attempt to polish his own image here in America. I refer, of course to Kennedy’s deal with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez under which the latter gives the former heating oil which is then sold to “the poor” in America.
What the ____ (fill in blank) happened? For the second time in a matter of mere months, a member of America’s Royal Family withdrew from consideration for a legacy seat in the Senate.
After Massachusetts Democrats had found a successor to “the Kennedy seat,” the clan came out to lend their family clout to the campaign. Patrick Kennedy, the only member of the clan still in Congress, joined his stepmother in support of “Marsha” Coakley, but to no avail. Republican Scott Brown won the special election for the Senate seat belonging to the people of Massachusetts.
Patrick Kennedy has recently referred to the election of Scott Brown as “a joke,” and like his fellow Democrats (former President Clinton and future former President Obama), he has placed the blame squarely on “Marsha” (really it’s Martha) Coakley’s shoulders.
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Read the rest: Cooling The Kennedy Mystique
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