Posted on 05/22/2008 4:31:34 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Ted Kennedy has made clear to confidants that when his time is up, he wants his Senate seat to stay in the family - with his wife, Vicki.
Multiple sources in Massachusetts with close ties to the liberal lion say his wife of 16 years has long been his choice to continue carrying the family flame in the Senate. Kennedy won the seat in 1962; his brother John held it from 1953 to 1960.
"There's no question that he'd like Vicki to continue in his seat," said one Massachusetts Democrat with ties to the Camelot clan who spoke to Kennedy recently, before his health crisis.
"She's smart, and smart politically."
The 54-year-old Victoria Reggie Kennedy, a former hotshot Washington lawyer, is a Louisiana native and the daughter of a politically active judge.
She was hailed for holding the family together when John F. Kennedy Jr. was killed in a plane crash in 1999.
By favoring his wife, Kennedy, 76, is bypassing his late brother Robert Kennedy's eldest son, Joe, a former congressman.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Posted again so it’s at top of page, I guess I’m the first here to say it?:
Will she be known as the Liberal Lioness?
Who is even a bigger heap of human excrement that Uncle Teddy if that is possible. However, not either of these two mutts is even close to being as ruthless a scoundrel as Joe Kennedy Sr. If he had it his way, we would have fought on Hitler's side during WWII.
What a family.
It is like I heard a wise man say once: " Czarist Russia had Rasputin, the USA has the Kennedy's"
You cannot become a senator by marrying someone! This is so backward, so outrageously unfair! Please let's not continue this "wife" sht!
I’ll shed no tears for the Kennedy dynasty — quite the opposite.
Good point...but they do their part. The imprisionment angle is because of their retired status and my being assigned out of the country for a few years with the military. They vote, they try to help in fundraising for conservative causes (Take a look at Mass Resistance dot org.) and they are not afraid of the Ted-Kennedy-Visious-Leftists who abound there. The real kick is that if all the true blue collar workers voted the gays and Kennedy would be out of power. Even though most of these guys are union folks...they have had it with the left in Mass.
God bless them, and you for your service.
Let's hope the entire country wakes up to this threat from within.
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