[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

IMHO he's the "greatest senator" purely based on time served. He's still in the senate because

1. He couldn't get himself elected president
2. He can have his Massachusetts senate seat as long as he wants it - which has nothing to do with achievment or ability.

I think the conviction of Skakel has gone a very long ways in revealing the family for what they are. In that sense, the bloom has come off the rose, and recently.

I think based on Kennedy's lifetime habits he may not be all that long for this world and he knows it and the writer of this article knows it. It reads pretty much like an obituary and Kennedy seems largely incoherent most of the time.

So JFK got the grand prize, RFK got the consolation prize, and now folks want to award Ted the booby prize - as in "He got to the Senate and stayed there". And if there were any justice, he wouldn't even have that. Yawn.

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1. He couldn't get himself elected president
2. He can have his Massachusetts senate seat as long as he wants it - which has nothing to do with achievment or ability.

I’ve been predicting a very similar future for Hillary Clinton, provided Rudy Guiliani doesn’t decide to deny her number two.