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Kennedys in squabble for Ted’s Senate seat
Times Online ^ | May 10, 2009 | Sarah Baxter

Posted on 05/10/2009 12:08:18 AM PDT by Cincinna

A FAMILY battle is looming to succeed Edward Kennedy as senator and claim the leadership of America’s foremost political dynasty.

While Kennedy, 77, the “liberal lion” of the Senate, is suffering from a brain tumour, jockeying has already begun between supporters of two possible candidates to replace him after his death.

His wife Victoria, 55, a lawyer from a political family, is widely expected to run for his seat, which has a special place in family lore because it was held by JohnF Kennedy before he became president in 1961.

However, former congressman Joe Kennedy, the eldest son of Robert F Kennedy, is said to regard himself as the “heir apparent”, according to a biography by Edward Klein serialised in Vanity Fair.

“He is nothing if not aggressive,” said a family friend. “Anybody who tries to get between him and Ted’s Senate chair is in for a fight.”

In Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died, Klein writes that Vicki, Kennedy’s second wife, has struggled to be accepted by the clan and is “seen by all as an interloper”.

Joe reportedly “vied with Vicki over who was in charge” of his uncle when Ted Kennedy was hospitalised. He appalled some nursing staff by ordering in a “feast of lobster, clams and shrimp”.

The senator had hoped that his niece Caroline Kennedy,a prominent supporter of Barack Obama, would be granted Hillary Clinton’s vacant Senate seat in New York, but the plan backfired.

As opposition to Caroline’s candidacy grew, her mood worsened. “Mom, you are above all this,” her elder daughter Rose, 19, allegedly said. Caroline withdrew that same day.

Joe Kennedy dismissed the reports of his ambition as “gossip”.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: chappaquiddick; kennedy; kennedydynasty; kennedyfamily; kennedys; ma2010; massachusetts; massachussetts; tedkennedy
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Which Kennedy can compete with the lowly Lord of Chappaquiddick?

Joe Kennedy, son of RFK, BFF Hugo Chavez, ugly marital row with wife and the Vatican.

Patrick, son of Teddy, alcoholic member of House from RI spends alternate weeks in Rehab.

Bobby jr, son of RFK, former convicted heroin addict... and the beat goes on.

Sounds like JFK/Jackie grand daughter, Rose,is the only one with brains in that power hungry family.

1 posted on 05/10/2009 12:08:19 AM PDT by Cincinna
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To: Cincinna

Haven’t we had enough of this liberal mafia?


2 posted on 05/10/2009 12:11:03 AM PDT by datura ("Against all enemies, both foreign and domestic")
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To: Cincinna

I’m wondering if any of them should take a shot at it.

They just might be humiliated. The Caroline backlash may well have had an effect in MA.


3 posted on 05/10/2009 12:14:44 AM PDT by sinanju
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To: Cincinna
They're not even gonna let him assume room temperature before they start going after each others throats, are they.

Compassionate liberals that they are and all.

4 posted on 05/10/2009 12:15:19 AM PDT by Semper Mark (We're being held hostage in the wet dream of a 60's radical.)
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To: Markos33

enough with dynasties. This is America, not for families who think they’re entitled to power


5 posted on 05/10/2009 12:17:07 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Cincinna

Is there something in the Constitution that says at least one of the Senate Seats from MA must be filled by a Kennedy?


6 posted on 05/10/2009 12:22:35 AM PDT by digger48
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To: sinanju
They just might be humiliated.

The Kennedy clan has no shame. Remember, it's the 17th amendment plus earmarks that allow for idiots like Teddy to have a Senate seat for life.

7 posted on 05/10/2009 12:25:31 AM PDT by cryptical (The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: Cincinna

Stupid me. I never realized it belonged to them.


8 posted on 05/10/2009 12:25:37 AM PDT by BigCinBigD ('When a man believes that any stick will do, he at once picks up a boomerang,')
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To: Cincinna
Granted.

The senator had hoped that his niece Caroline Kennedy,a prominent supporter of Barack Obama, would be granted Hillary Clinton’s vacant Senate seat in New York...

9 posted on 05/10/2009 12:36:30 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy ("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
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To: Cincinna

Toss them all into the water and let them swim for the finish line.... just be sure to keep moving the finish line.


10 posted on 05/10/2009 12:43:31 AM PDT by Gator113 (Weak-coward-racist-white hating-lying-traitor= Surrender Monkey in Chief-B. Hussein Obama...)
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To: 4rcane

Well said. Dynasty, my arse. If their legacy is fostering suffering and misery unto the American masses, then this “dynasty” must end.


11 posted on 05/10/2009 12:47:01 AM PDT by max americana
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To: Cincinna

Caroline Kennedy, with her kids (left to right) Rose, Tatiana and John

Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, Harvard class of ‘10, in a picture from her Facebook

Rose Kennedy Schlossberg Photos Tell Shocking Tale Of Smoking, Drinking, Famous College Student

12 posted on 05/10/2009 12:56:23 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: datura
Haven’t we had enough of this liberal mafia?

They are acting as if this is the family business instead of a government job!

13 posted on 05/10/2009 12:57:21 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Cincinna

Mitt Romney for Massachusetts’ senate seat in 2010.

Otherwise, Mitt Romney for Nevada’s senate seat in 2010.


14 posted on 05/10/2009 1:03:42 AM PDT by linbiao123
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To: Cincinna

They act like they’re entitled to it. Screw them.


15 posted on 05/10/2009 1:04:26 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod (Obama's not the anti-Christ, but is making the way for him as John the Baptist did for Jesus.)
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To: kcvl

i guess when your mother (alone) is worth more than 100 mil a little slumming could be called a new experience


16 posted on 05/10/2009 1:13:59 AM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Mac Conchradha - "Skeagh mac en chroe"- Skaghvicencrowe)
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To: linbiao123

We have enough Democrats in the Senate already, thanks.


17 posted on 05/10/2009 1:36:34 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Cincinna

I thought Joe already had a day job driving a heating oil truck.


18 posted on 05/10/2009 1:36:40 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Cincinna

comparisons with imperial rome certainly fit with the kennedys. hereditary/family seats?

I expect to see a LOT more of this in coming decades.


19 posted on 05/10/2009 1:37:56 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: Cincinna

Didn’t one of these scumbags throw somebody off his boat and into the water a few years ago? I think when the police showed up he claimed he was “on his way to the Capitol to vote”.

It’s hard to follow all the drunken, doped-up escapades of this sick bunch.


20 posted on 05/10/2009 1:43:53 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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