This may be the last Kennedy.
Finally.
When Joe Kennedy III, the distinguished, 39-year-old, four-term Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, announced that he would challenge long-serving Ed Markey to the U.S. Senate in September, the liberal media had his typical sly, Pavlovian response. .
Still, despite a dramatic drop in polls.
“The Democratic representative has not given a good reason for challenging progressive Senator Ed Markey in Massachusetts,” The Atlantic said three weeks ago. “But with a name like his, it doesn’t matter.”
Really? Grandpa Ted’s run for president in 1980 could not be derailed by serial drunkenness, feminism, deception, nor lies – not even Chappaquiddick and the small matter of drowning a young woman was enough.
It was Ted’s television inability to answer exactly the question – “Why are you running?” – that put him in.
Voters are not stupid. They know the reason. The Kennedys think Massachusetts is their fifth, the Oval Office their birthplace.
Kennedys run because they are Kennedys.
Ever grateful, that tautology no longer holds. We all know that Camelot was an epic lie. JFK’s father bought him the presidency. RFK, which at least cared about civil rights and the plight of America’s poor, was the only real guiding light of the family. Ted retained his senate seat from generation of sadness and nostalgia, but had he lived to see the #MeToo era, he would never have survived.
The Kennedys have been backward for decades, their surname a chimera disguised declining power and neglect of parties within.
Who can forget the not more ultra of Modern Kennedy Law: Caroline’s Demand, in 2008, that the then New York government David Paterson appoint her successor to Hillary Clinton’s Senate? Caroline was so sure of a cakewalk that she could not even bother bothering humble cousin or a shiny familiarity with the problems.
Instead, her campaign was downplayed by the familyâ & # x20AC; & # x2122 ;s noir: the spoken answer as a reporter dared to ask, “Why you?”
She had no idea.
“In interviews over the weekend,” the then-AP reported, Caroline “offered statements for runs that included the 9/11 attacks on Manhattan” plus “Obama’s encouragement and the commitment to public service by her father, President John F.C. Kennedy, and others in her family. “
Caroline’s “um … like … you know” interviews are the stuff of legendary political bumblebees. Even the New York Times could not hold them back. Paterson threw her under the bus.
Not “ready for prime time,” his team told CNN. “She clearly has no policy experience and could not handle the pressure.”
If Camelot’s princess can’t get a Senate seat, what do these beta Kennedys think they can do?
Joe Kennedy’s vote has been in free fall. Two new polls show 74-year-old Markey opens a 10 to 12-point lead – and Markey is the strongest poll among the young and college-educated, for whom the Kennedys have no charm or nostalgia.
The best reason Joe has to run? He’s in the fight of my generation. ‘
Joe has yet to get the memo: His generation does not want him. Just as they did not want his great friend Beto O’Rourke, the two struggled with an occupied national media during the debate over who looked and sounded more Kennedy.
However, the Dems are no longer in thrall. Now we have AOC cut a campaign ad for Markey, her co-author on the Green New Deal. “When it comes to progressive leadership,” she says, “it’s not your age that counts, it’s the age of your ideas.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts supports Markey. So do party leaders Chuck Schumer, Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney. The Boston Globe signed Markey. Among Irish Catholic politicians in Massachusetts, this is like opening the New Testament to find a disclaimer: “Not based on actual events.”
Joe Kennedy “misses the chops and track record that Markey would bring,” the Globe said.
However, Nancy Pelosi recently signed Joe Kennedy, because you guessed it, he’s a Kennedy.
“I was not happy with some of the attack I saw on the Kennedy family,” Pelosi said. Also, “Joe Kennedy represents the future of this party. He will help Democrats move forward on the defining battles of our time. ”
How could anyone argue with such a specific reason?
Meanwhile, Markey seeks to deliver the knock-out punch to this shaky, fraudulent dynasty.
“We asked what we could do for our country,” Markey says, citing JFK’s inaugural words. ‘We went out, we did it. With all due respect, it’s time to ask what your country can do for you. ”
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