On 2009-08-27 17:53:27 -0400, "Tom Littleton" said:

MA residents: is it a given that another Sen.Kennedy
will succeed the late Teddy?

Probably. The Kenndy name wins in for Massholes. There was a guy in
Lowell who could not get elected, couldn't even win in the primaries.
He legally changed his name to Kennedy and won a local election -
nothing big, mind you, but the name won him a seat in some small school
committee or council.

With all the warts Ted had - Chappiquidick, the Florida trial of his
nephew where it came out that he took them out drinking, knowing that
they had prolems with the sauce, his drunken binge with Dodd in a DC
restaurant, his cheating in college, his driving record, his trouble
with alchohol, his fat homely face with all the gin blosooms - he still
got elected and served his people well. I certainly won't miss him
like I did his brothers, and anyone replacing him in the Senate will
only be a pretender to the Kennedy Thrown.

Now, one must admit that if poor Teddy was a Republican his **** would
really, REALLY, stink. But because he is a liberal Dem, even his farts
are odorless.

Dave