One of former President John F. Kennedy’s favorite sayings was “success has many fathers. Failure is an orphan.”
What would the assassinated President make of this week’s special election in Massachusetts, where a little-known Republican won the seat held by John and Bobby Kennedy’s younger brother Teddy for 47 years? What would they make of the GOP sending one of their own to sit in the US Senate for the first time since 1978?
A Republican winning the “Kennedy seat” would have been a joke a few weeks ago, a fantasy so preposterous that not even FOX’s Glenn Beck would have spoken of it on his program. That one of the most liberal states in the country, (more…)
