Kennedy really needs to retire. If I was a democrat, I'd be insisting on it. He's an embarrassment.
>>Kennedy really needs to retire.
He's up for re-election this year; a couple GOP challengers that nobody has heard of. Huge war chest. Ted has been in
office since the year I was born. Next month I turn 44...
There's no way he'd retire, not unless he got one of his
brood (Joe? Son Patrick "Patches"?) to keep the seat.
Ted turns 74 next month. If it were up to him he'd
stay till 99 or 100.
There is no reason for Senator Kennedy to retire. He's got a lifetime sinecure, interrupted only briefly every six years by the need to make a few extra speeches while awaiting the inevitable defeat of whatever luckless soul the Massachusetts Republican Party talks into taking two in the hat for the Team. Even as the years have passed, there still are numerous voters in the Bay State who would rather pull the lever for a dead (or at least alcoholically-embalmed) Kennedy than for a live Republican.