DUmmies finally pick up on our speculation about the next Kennedy patriarch:
Peregrine Took (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-29-09 02:54 PM
Original message
Who will pick up the Kennedy mantle now, RFK, jr?
He is the only one that I know of who is in the public eye (he has a weekly radio program - the best that I have heard - "Ring of FIre") and holds very passionate positions. He has the charisma, the family and, most importantly, the fire and passion.
He is a lawyer and very intelligent, too, but I don't know if he has the stomach for political life -especially the way its played nowadays.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6419829RFK, Jr. is a nutcase conspiracy theorist. He carries on Andy Stephenson's heroic work, but, unlike Scamdy, he's a heroin addict,
because he can afford it. I'm not sure if he's queer. But a nutcase heroin addict can be sucessful in politics, if he's a Kennedy in
Massachusetts.
polichick (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-29-09 02:56 PM
Response to Original message
1. I think they'll all continue to do their parts...
Tim Shriver with Special Olympics, Bobby and Joe with environmental work, Caroline continuing with family legacy issues, Patrick in Congress, etc.
Commusocialists just love incompetency by committee!
DUmmy TLB, minus her annoying periods (the only type she's had since Nixon's first term):
Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-29-09 02:56 PM
2. No one.
It took Ted Kennedy forty-seven years to become Ted Kennedy. If someone starts in now, maybe he'll have some accomplishments under his belt in another forty-seven years, but the reality is, alas, there is no one.
You cannot become a 400-pound alcoholic womanizing demogogue overnight.
cali (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-29-09 02:58 PM
3. I doubt anyone in that generation will be a monumental figure in American life.
Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-29-09 02:59 PM
4. I'm not sure Bobby's interested in running for office.
I thought maybe he was when he endorsed Hillary in the last primary as opposed to the rest of the family being Obama supporters. Figured his motivation was getting Hillary out of his father's seat so he could take it himself. But when Hillary DID leave the seat, he didn't show any interest. (though his cousin Caroline did)
Since that would have been an obvious opportunity to get into office and he didn't take it, I get the feeling he's not going that direction.
Selatius (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-29-09 03:04 PM
5. I saw RFK, Jr. speak once. Even had him sign a book of mine.
RFK, Jr. was never meant for the political life. He is great as an activist. His role is to pressure those in power. I don't think he wants to be a politician.
RFK, Jr. doesn't want to do anything that might jeopardize his heroin connections. He will continue to speak out in public about controlled demolition of the Twin Towers, and how Rove stole Warren County.
billyoc (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-29-09 03:09 PM
6. I like Joe for the Senate seat.
If only for his work with Hugo Chavez to bring heating oil to the people of New England. That should be enough to cause a few fatal strokes on the far right.
Joe, aside from being a communist, is the Kennedy who purchased an marriage annulment from the diocese of Boston, which has always been for sale to the Kennedy family, in order to marry a trollop from his office staff. The jilted wife did not agree, and the Vatican, which is not normally for sale to the Kennedy family, cancelled the annulment. So Joe married the trollop anyway, and is regarded as a bigamist, outside the diocese of Boston.
