There they go again.
Some among our nation’s legions of Villagers have decided that it’s not satisfying enough to speculate who Ted Kennedy’s successor as the next junior senator from Massachusetts will be, so they’ve begun a dumb effort to compare some other long-serving U.S. Senator (cough, John McCain) to Teddy and anoint him as the next Kennedy. Um, what?
It’s bad enough when this nonsense is on newspaper op-ed pages, but regrettably, it’s now been mentioned on cable as well.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, talking to himself in CNN’s “Situation Room” as he often does, foolishly trying to fill airtime with vapid monologues, picked up on this idiotic meme, rambling, “I was talking earlier with some friends and I asked, who might emerge as the new Ted Kennedy in the United States Senate? You know who a lot of people think it might be? … That would be Senator McCain.”
Actually, no, it wouldn’t. No one is ever going to replace Teddy. He was, truly, a legislative giant who was in a league all by himself.
Why isn’t it possible to just appreciate who Ted Kennedy was in these sad days following his death, and quit with the speculation, horse race coverage, and obsession on political power?