Legal Commentary

A Good Yarn

By Big Tent Democrat

Courtesy of Steve Clemons:

The game plan -- whether real or fantasy -- is intriguing. It goes something like this. Caroline Kennedy would be appointed now to the Senate. She would perform well above the very low expectations many had for her and win handily the seat in the 2010 mid-term race in which that Senate seat needs to be contested again. She would then be in place until 2016. [Steve is inaccurate here as the NY Senate seat will be contested again in 2012.] Ted Kennedy's view "may be" that Caroline would instantly out-shine Hillary Clinton in the eyes of New York voters and in the American political scene and that in 2016, Caroline Kennedy would be 59 while Hillary Clinton would be 69.

So the yarn is Caroline Kennedy was going to run for President in 2016. Whoa! That strikes me as nuts. But what do I know.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 24, 2009 (boomark / email).