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Why not one of the girlfriends?

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

like this has never happened before on both sides of the aisle.

In all my years I have never seen the term “politically active judge” before… not even in descriptions of either Illinois or Louisiana.

Of course most people think of judges as being non-political… that is non-partisan and objective.  Apparently among certain Democrat dynasties that is not the case.  Curious admission.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

like this has never happened before on both sides of the aisle.

andy,

Perhaps you could provide us some examples from “both sides of the aisle”?  The only other such case I can think of is when Missouri Sen. Mel Carnahan was left on the ballot after his death three weeks before the election.  He won, narrowly defeating John Ashcroft in a sympathy vote after the governor indicated he would appoint Carnahan’s wife Jean to the seat.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

There was Quentin Burdick from North Dakota.  The Democrat Governor, George Sinner, appointed the widow of the Demcorat to the Senate to end out his term.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Here you go:  http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-widows-26jan26,0,5862695.story

I think Cher should have got it.

What’s your point Andy, nobody around here is saying it’s OK for either party to do it.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

The point is Neiman would never had posted on this if it didn’t involve a Kennedy.  He obviously didn’t do any checking to see if there was precedent for this and when the next regularly scheduled election would be held after an appointment due to death of the officeholder. 

My point was that this is not so uncommon and many only hold the seat until the next election.  Some ran for the office like Mary Bono and others like Senator Jocelyn Burdick did not.

Andydakota: Actually, I am acutely aware of it being a common practice, it is implied in my comments. My purpose was to highlight the arrogance of the ruling class in this Representative Republic that should have no ruling class at all. Kennedy or not, Ted “I kill my Dates” Kennedy has anointed his successor. The voters and the governor will follow this divine appointment without any resistance at all. But, is that right? Are elective offices the property of the ruling class? Are we supposed to have a professional ruling class at all? Is the nation still of, by and or the people? I don’t think it is any longer, this Representative Republic is now a Kleptocracy, ruled by they think divine right, an elite ruling class like the Kennedy Royal family.

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman you are a hater of the Kennedys as is clear from previous posts.  That the people of Mass. can and will vote for the candidate of their choice is what matters.  If they don’t want a Kennedy in office they will elect someone else. You don’t say this about the Bush ruling class, do ya?

I have no objection to a widow actually running for the office and being selected by the voters.  If that’s their decision, do be it!

But appointing the widow, or perhaps in this case, the wife of an office holder to complete a term he is unable to fulfill, strikes me as the sort of dynastic arrogance the Founding Fathers were determined to get away from.

The Kennedy clan is already well known for their dynastic inclinations, and certainly the press isn’t about to note the similarity between Teddy’s wishes and the ancient “divine right of kings.” Odd how un-democratic Democrats can be when it suits their ego.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

andy,

Whether Neiman loathes the Kennedy’s, or worships the water they walk on has nothing to do with whether the practice of appointing a dead office-holder’s spouse to complete the unfinished term is or is not proper.

Nor is the fact that “this is not so uncommon...” excuse the practice.  By that perverse logic, Pol Pot wasn’t such a bad guy by virtue of the fact that Joe Stalin killed 20 times more people.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

andydakota:
The problem is, the voters won’t decide on his replacement, the Governor will and he will bow to Kennedy’s appointment of his wife. Then the voters will face the choice when that term ends, and if they want Kennedy’s wife, Msss is a liberal craphhouse anyway so they can do what they want, as Bat One said, I am objecting to the idea of a ruling class anointing theie successors, often from their own families.

I don’t hate Kennedy, I hate the evil he and his family have foisted upon America.

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.