Very funny! Governor Paterson is only doing what Illinois Governor Blagoevich wanted to do: Selling the Senate Seat, but Paterson is doing it the traditional way. Paterson has been promised tens of millions in financing for his 2010 election campaign from Obama, the Kennedys, and billionaire New York City Mayor Bloomberg. Remember, Paterson himself is an accidental Governor by virtue of Eliot Spitzer hooking up with high priced girls. He will need lots of money to defeat Andrew Cuomo in the primary and then Rudy Giuliani in the general election if they choose to run for Governor, and Senator Caroline would be viewed as a very weak 2010 candidate in the election process so that one or both might find it more interesting to run for the NY senate seat! Cuomo is divorced from Caroline’s cousin Kerry, so he might relish knocking her off.
So for 10-20 million in campaign financing, Paterson selects Kennedy and may even deflect his rivals to the NY senate election instead of his Governorship. Verry Savvy.