The Kennedy Dynasty

Ted Kennedy has made clear to confidants that when his time is up, he wants his Senate seat to stay in the family - with his wife, Vicki.

Multiple sources in Massachusetts with close ties to the liberal lion say his wife of 16 years has long been his choice to continue carrying the family flame in the Senate. Kennedy won the seat in 1962; his brother John held it from 1953 to 1960.

“There’s no question that he’d like Vicki to continue in his seat,” said one Massachusetts Democrat with ties to the Camelot clan who spoke to Kennedy recently, before his health crisis.

  Despite what Daddy Joe might have told you, the Kennedys DO NOT own that Senate seat.

   Thanks to the passage of a 2004 Massachusetts law (to prevent then-governor Romney (Republican) from appointing a Republican to the Senate should Horse-face John Kerry have been elected POTUS), the governor cannot appoint someone to fill the seat, there has to be an election.

   Hopefully, the Bay Staters will vote for fresh-blood, not tired old Kennedy blue-blood.