They never would have emerged if not for the support of their church and its Catholic voters, who also sustained the family in politics for generation after generation, and is what gave them and their political party, its power.
True. My parents thought the world of the Kennedy’s.
Irish Catholics. Dyed-in-the wool Democrats. My dad was even a two-term Democrat town councilman in the NJ town I grew up in.
If there was a “Kennedy’’ running somewhere my parents voted for them.
Well, there’s a judge on high and it’s not me.