Wow. A legendary bouncy by DUmmy Raven.
I think it's a stretchy.
This reminds me of 1987 in Nebraska, when the Democrat U.S. Senator Edward ("Eddie the Zero") Zorinsky unexpectedly died, and then-Governor Kay Orr, Republican governor of Nebraska had to fill the seat.
There were hundreds of names tossed around, by the press, by prominent and not-so-prominent Republicans, and other pundits and politicos. Hundreds of names.
The same probably happened in corrupt machine-operated Massachusetts in late 1960, hundreds of names tossed about in the air, to see which one would stick.
It wouldn't surprise me if the late Hanify, Esq., had been on a "C" list.
The late Hanify, Esq., allegedly being a Republican though, would've been pretty low on that "C" list, not to mention not being on the "B" list or the "A" list at all.
About a year and a half ago, my curiosity picqued, I went to the local library to check the indexes of books about the Kennedys to see if the late Hanify, Esq. had been mentioned in any of them. There were 173 books about the Kennedys, pro and con, on the library shelves; no "Hanify" mentioned in any of them.
Of course, this is a small-town library, and could not possibly have
all of the books published about the Kennedys, and a glaring omission was the absence of any books that dealt, specifically, with Chappaquidick, and so perhaps the late Hanify, Esq. is mentioned in others.
If the "relationship," which perhaps existed, was as close as the carpetbagging maternal ancestress implies, one thinks there would have been some mention, even slight, of the late Hanify, Esq., given that some of these books are pretty big books, hundreds of pages, small print, and footnoted.
I suspect the carpetbagging maternal ancestress is stretching.
What got my goat was the carpetbagging maternal ancestress denigrating Benjamin Smith, the one who was ultimately appointed to the seat, as if he was a nonentity long ago forgotten.
Well, one supposes Benjamin Smith was a nonentity, certainly now, 50 years after the event, and long ago forgotten, but one also suspects Benjamin Smith was more than what the carpetbagging maternal ancestress makes him out to be. He was after all a college classmate of John Kennedy, an at-the-time prominent attorney (at least in Massachusetts), and I have no doubt he flourished and prospered, although in some obscurity.
And of course Benjamin Smith has the happy fate of not being an ancestor of that most worthless piece of excresence on Skins's island, the greasy squalid flaccid flabby Bostonian Drunkard.
