[PogySailor]

Nobody has felt, or suffered, the weight of changes in the electoral landscape and the resulting shift in the power structure in Washington D.C. over the last twenty-five years more than Kennedy. He came to Washington in November 1962 as the brother of a sitting President and an Attorney General and as the member of a party that controlled 66 seats in the Senate and had an 83-seat majority in the House of Representatives. It was the height of both his family’s and his party’s power, and it has been more or less a downhill ride ever since.

Maybe ol'Kennedy is part of the reason for that decline. I wonder if the writer considered that?

[sport]

If he had not murdered[my opinion] Mary Jo, he in all probability would have been President.

[FlyVet]

Maybe ol'Kennedy is part of the reason for that decline. I wonder if the writer considered that?

And, a generation of those who would blindly heed the likes of Ted "because he's a Kennedy" or "because he's a 'Catholic'" are dying off. Some of them are in my own family, and they're in their 70s and 80s now.