Caroline Kennedy Is No Sarah Palin

  •  December 20, 2008

Kathleen Parker asks a good question in the Washington Post today:

WASHINGTON — It is a legitimate question: Why is the resume-thin Caroline Kennedy being treated seriously as a prospective appointee to the U.S. Senate when the comparatively more-qualified Gov. Sarah Palin received such a harsh review?

Unfortunately, after asking it, she dismisses it as illegitimate because it represents (in her opinion) comparing apples to oranges. See, Caroline Kennedy is to be appointed to the Senate. Sarah Palin was running for Vice President.
So, essentially, Parker is arguing that Kennedy seeks appointment to a role in the US government of less importance than the one Palin sought to be elected to. But I don’t buy that argument.
Yes, if appointed, Kennedy would be just 1 of 100 Senators. But she’d be just one of two Senators representing one of the most populous states in the country, and let’s not forget that our various branches of government are supposed to be “separate but equal.” A Senator is, to my mind, every bit as important as a President.
Also, Senators handle many sensitive issues. For many decisions made pertaining to the military, national security, etc. aren’t made by the full Senate but rather by the various oversight committees. Remember “Charlie Wilson’s War” where one Representative who just happened to be on the right committee almost single handedly armed the Mujahedin in Afghanistan in their fight against the Soviets?
Senators are important, and those who are now supporting Caroline Kennedy but who accused Sarah Palin of being inexperienced are a bunch of hypocrites.

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  • http://Array Mickey

    It is a legitimate question: Why is the resume-thin Caroline Kennedy being treated seriously as a prospective appointee to the U.S. Senate when the comparatively more-qualified Gov. Sarah Palin received such a harsh review?

    I ask you another legitimate question: Why was the resume-thin Barack Obama treated seriously as a presidential candidate to the U.S. when the comparatively more-qualified Gov. Sarah Palin received such a harsh review?

    Because to the left it is all about image not substance.

  • ellinas

    What are the constitutional qualifications for a senator?

  • RebTex

    obama should be careful when around her, if she get’s the nod.
    kennedy’s have a habit of attracting a different crowd.

  • http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

    Are we talking about an election here or an anointing?

  • ellinas

    As for this Kennedy, if she wants the seat she should run for the office.

    2Hotel9 on December 21, 2008 at 04:44 am

    This is idiocy on your part. No one has to run for the seat. The law provides for the governor to appoint a person to the seat, until the next election.
    Why do you insist in making stupid statements and/or asking stupid questions?

  • 2Hotel9

    And still no proof, you simply toddle out the same, oh so artfully, edited video clips. Proving only that you can find oh so artfully edited video clips.

    Kennedy wants the seat she should run for it. Why has she not done that? If being the Senator from New York is such a dear dream of her’s why has she never run for it? Why is she, instead, slipping the maître d a bit of baksheesh and sliming her way in through the backdoor?

  • Rich

    I know one thing, I wouldn’t accept a ride from her if I knew the road was going over a bridge.

  • 2Hotel9

    The American way is to use subterfuge and back channels hand offs to buy a Senate seat. Thanks for enlightening us, sweet pea.

  • ellinas

    2Hotel9. Is she doing something unlawful? After serving as a bench warmer she will have to run for the seat. No?

    You say: “Sit out a term, then run on her own merits.”
    Why? Because you say so? Or because as an incumbent she will be difficult to beat by Republican and or Democratic challengers?

  • 2Hotel9

    So why is she not running? Never ran?

  • 2Hotel9

    Want to make me nondelusional? Provide actual proof Palin is an idiot. Do so now.

  • 2Hotel9

    And we are still waiting for a cogent answer from you on any question. Any question at all.

  • Neiman

    Reagan served as Governor of the State of California for two terms (8 years), a state larger in budget than most countries on earth. He served as President of Screen Actors Guild and was visibly active in politics most of his life, and someome compares that to Caroline? Strange indeed!

    I don’t know if the picture was doctored or not, but I swear she looks eighty years old and not too well!

  • 2Hotel9

    Simple question. Why has this Kennedy never run for office? Why is she buying a Senate seat?

  • ellinas

    Get with the program.
    We are talking about the present, not the past.
    You ask such stupid questions as “Really? So Arnie was governor during the 1990s?”. Stop asking stupid questions.

  • 2Hotel9

    Funny, the person you are naming has apologized for spreading unfounded rumors, and no one from the McC campaign has had anything to say to the press on any of this. Now cry for us some more, this is just too easy.

  • Hannitized

    Who?

    Sarah Palin gets trounced by FoxNews and McCain Camp:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5BXMv64EfU

  • 2Hotel9

    Hey, sanni? While reading more on that guy I came across this gem! Wow, your girl Caroline is a real fuck up. No wonder you are so enamored of her.

  • ellinas

    Besides running a very large and very successful corporation?

    2Hotel9 on December 29, 2008 at 07:21 pm

    That did not help him at running a state government.
    He is all gimmicks, no results.
    Ran the state to the ground.

  • 2Hotel9

    Good points, BB. Notice the ringing silence from sanni, even though it was crying in 2 other threads at the same time you posted this comment.

  • Henry

    Caroline is not qualified, but using the name as a stepping stone. Apparently, the best and brightest is not a qualification for the position.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    She’s as qualified as Reagan was, as Sonny Bono was, as Gopher from the Loveboat was, as Clint Eastwood was, as Al Franken is. Or will be soon.

  • Hawk

    What are the constitutional qualifications for a senator?

    30 years old, nine years a citizen and an inhabitant of the state for which he is chosen.

  • ellinas

    2Hotel9. While you are waiting, I will fly to New York, to personally convey your question(s), and than I shall, without delay, report my findings to you. Stay glued at your computer till I report back.

  • ellinas

    2Hotel9. You sound like a parrot. Stuck on the talking points I see.

  • DORIAN EDWARDS

    So what qualifications did old Arnie have to be Governor of Caly Fornia?

  • Hannitized

    sanni, still waiting for any proof, any proof at all, tha Palin is an idiot. Feel free to put it in this thread when you find any.

    I see that 2Hotel is still drunk and crying over the videos I handed to it several days ago. Too funny.

    It is as the point where it denies what it sees. This is its routine when it has it’s ass handed to it.

  • 2Hotel9

    Who?

    I especially love how all those New York Democrats are telling Caroline to sit down and shut up. Too funny.

  • 2Hotel9

    And exactly where is “Cameron” saying Fox made him apologize?

  • 2Hotel9

    Still no proof that Palin is an idiot, I see. And where is all that damning evidence that FoxNews coerced your boy to “apologize”?

  • 2Hotel9

    So explain to us why your slut has never run for that Senate seat.

  • http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Bike Bubba

    Proof of Palin’s intelligence can be found in her required financial disclosure forms. Despite moderate income (low six figures in a good year), she and her husband have accumulated over one and a half million dollars in assets. The incoming veep cannot say this, and Mr. Obama only started saving significant amounts of money when “windfall” income came in from his books despite mid-six-figure income for the past two decades.

    More proof of Palin’s intelligence; she hasn’t fallen for the myth that gun control reduces crime, as the Democrats have. Yes, she didn’t go to an Ivy League school, but that’s a good thing. The nincompoops who have screwed up government (like Joe Biden and Barack Obama) largely come from there.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    Heck Palin has way more experience than the golden girl and I find it funny that the left isn’t questioning Caroline Kennedy when she hasn’t done anything.

  • Hannitized

    Still nothing demonstrating Sarah Palin is smart.

    Watch it obfuscate and change the subject now that it’s argument has been thoroughly destroyed. Too funny.

  • ellinas

    Kennedy wants the seat she should run for it. Why has she not done that? If being the Senator from New York is such a dear dream of her’s why has she never run for it? Why is she, instead, slipping the maître d a bit of baksheesh and sliming her way in through the backdoor?

    2Hotel9 on December 21, 2008 at 03:26 pm

    She chose to do it the American way. And she is not doing it to please you. So go ahead and continue bitching.

  • 2Hotel9

    Besides running a very large and very successful corporation?

  • RebTex

    This is idiocy on your part. No one has to run for the seat. The law provides for the governor to appoint a person to the seat, until the next election.

    ACtually, you’re off point.
    If she were sooooo intrested in this seat, why hasn’t she ran for it in the past or at least mentioned it?
    2H9′s point that she’s wanting to take advantage & fall into the seat is on the money.
    Then, the kennedy moonshine money will finance her to stay in it by out spending anyone that comes against her.
    Think faux incumbant.

  • 2Hotel9

    If she wants to be in the Senate she should run for it. If she is placed in as a benchwarmer she should serve out Hilary’s time, and be blocked from running as an incumbent. Sit out a term, then run on her own merits.

  • http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Bike Bubba

    As qualified? Hardly. All the people you list, Dina, have actually held jobs that they didn’t get because of their family name. They’ve even (apart from Franken) actually been elected to office as well. You can’t say that about Mrs. Kennedy.

  • 2Hotel9

    No answer, even in this thread. Why has she never run for the Senate if it has been her deeply held, life long dream? Very simple question, which you refuse to answer. And while we are at it, Where did the uranium come from? Which country on which continent?

  • Hannitized

    Still waiting for you to provide proof of Palin’s “idiocy”. Been 3 months and you have nothing.

    You can only lead a horse to water;

    Sarah Palin gets trounced by FoxNews and McCain Camp:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5BXMv64EfU

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kiW0S-LJvI&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wezdbLqRnzs&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irklZ-iZjhI&feature=related

  • ellinas

    RebTex. I am not defending her. Unfortunately for us, aristocracy did not die with the birth of our constitution.
    The fact that she did not run for the seat, or mentioned interest in the past, is moot. The undeniable fact is, the law as it exists, allows the Governor to appoint a replacement for Clinton’s seat. Every aspiring politician wants to take advantage of the situation at hand. The most connected and well oiled will get the nod.

  • ellinas

    No answer, even in this thread. Why has she never run for the Senate if it has been her deeply held, life long dream? Very simple question, which you refuse to answer. And while we are at it, Where did the uranium come from? Which country on which continent?

    2Hotel9 on December 22, 2008 at 04:08 am

    Truth is I realy don’t know, nor do I give a flying fuck, or a rats ass, as to why she has not ran. I am not her PR man. Nor her patron saint.
    And while we are at it, was the removed uranium 500.000 tons as you contend and continue to lie about, or 550 metric tons?

  • di butler

    And just like barbie’s dream horse, she comes with a nifty leather saddle! I don’t give a rip what those idiots on NY do, or don’t. Of course they are biased, and there has been a good bit of uprising on this. You would think, however, that being of “royalty” she could actually hold her shoulders back, walk instead of plod, and not chew like old Bessie, but if the horseshoe fits, wear it!

  • ellinas

    So why is she not running? Never ran?

    2Hotel9 on December 21, 2008 at 07:00 pm

    Looks like she used to jog and run when she was young.
    I will call her though and report back to you.

  • Hannitized

    presented….not prevented.

  • Hannitized

    Spare me Hotel. The evidence was prevented, but when you are in full denial mode, and delusional fuck mode, i don’t expect it to penetrate your pea brain.

    You, and most of the SAB audience are a waste of my time.

    If I wasn’t so narcissistic I probably wouldn’t waste my time at all on this blog. But I like to make fools of the foolish and reveal the idiocy of my political foes too much to walk away entirely.

  • Hannitized

    And still no proof, you simply toddle out the same, oh so artfully, edited video clips. Proving only that you can find oh so artfully edited video clips.

    2Hotel,

    You are seriously a delusional twit.

  • Hannitized

    Yeah, Fox News pounced all over Cameron when he was reporting the news honestly. They had to force him to apologize and then McCain stopped the leak.

    This is typical GOP operating procedure. Lie, lie and then cover it up.

    And you still haven’t proved Sarah Palin is smart.

  • 2Hotel9

    And you still have presented 0(zero) proof that Palin is an idiot. You have produced copious amounts of proof you are an idiot.

    e, Cali was driven into the ground under the “leadership” of Gray Davis. Now, are you really trying to pass off the lie that Arnie was Governor during the 1990s? Really?

  • 2Hotel9

    So, why has she never run for a Senate seat? She is a moneyed slut, why is she buying a Senate seat, instead of winning it?

    sanni, still waiting for any proof, any proof at all, tha Palin is an idiot. Feel free to put it in this thread when you find any.

  • 2Hotel9

    Ah, OK. So, where is all that evidence that Palin is an idiot?

  • 2Hotel9

    “I am not her PR man.” Another lie, slut. You are Caroline’s PR “woman”. And you lie for her in that capacity.

  • RebTex

    I was surprised at the lack of etiquette displayed by this would-be princess.
    While she was lunching with sharpton, she was talking with a mouth full of food.
    I didn’t think the dignitaries ever did that.
    Especially a camel-lot survivor.

  • 2Hotel9

    Still waiting for you to provide proof of Palin’s “idiocy”. Been 3 months and you have nothing.

    As for this Kennedy, if she wants the seat she should run for the office. Why has she never done that, if it is so important to her? Just like Teddi, she has to slink through the back door under cover of night, then she can use the family money to keep the seat without any actual qualifications. Or experience. Or mental capacity. Just like Teddi.

  • Hannitized

    2HotelWhiner,

    Does it get any clearer that Palin is an idiot when it is being told to you from Carl Cameron of FOXNews???

    HAHAHA.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/profile/pcND pcND

    I really do actually agree with this. There have been so many examples of individuals who, for example, have came from private sector to the US Senate, House, or Governor of a state directly and have done well. I think it is a very important position obviously, but I do put more credence on the Vice Presidency than a Senator.

    Now I’m not arguing who is better out of the two, I just think the VP is more important.

  • Hannitized
  • jeff

    Go away Parker and take Noonan with you.
    Also, quit pretending to be any level of conservative.

  • tothestars2

    Given the past history of those of the Kennedy clan who hold public office, I would rethink my decision if I were her.

  • 2Hotel9

    Really? So Arnie was governor during the 1990s?

  • Hannitized

    If Palin had half the brain Caroline has I wouldn’t have been so terrified by Palins idiocy.

  • ellinas

    Truth is I realy don’t know, nor do I give a flying fuck, or a rats ass, as to why she has not ran. I am not her PR man. Nor her patron saint.
    And while we are at it, was the removed uranium 500.000 tons as you contend and continue to lie about, or 550 metric tons?

  • ellinas

    The American way is to use subterfuge and back channels hand offs to buy a Senate seat. Thanks for enlightening us, sweet pea.

    2Hotel9 on December 21, 2008 at 05:53 pm

    Yep! That is the American way. Witness the amount of money necessary to run for office.

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