Caroline Kennedy, Tammy Bruce and the Kennedy Mystique--Leftis Hypocrisy on Parade

I have previously written an entry about how Caroline Kennedy (I know this is not really her married last name) is yet another example of how leftists, including CNN, MSNBC and the rest, are the worst, sanctimonious hypocrites ever to walk the Earth (savaging Sarah Palin for a supposed lack of experience, and even for the fact that she is a mother, while Caroline Kennedy gets a "tut-tup", if that, for no experience at all and touting her "experience" in raising a family in terms of Caroline Kennedy's "campaign" to replace Hillary Clinton as a Senator from New York).


The mainstream media, and fellow leftists, have gotten a little harder on Caroline. Someone actually counted the number of "you knows" in an interview she gave (146). Does this (relatively tame, in the mainstream media) relatively minor "trashing" of Carline Kennedy mean that leftists are not as hypocritical as I stated? Not on your life!!!!! Caroline Kennedy is not running against a Republican. If she were, the left--including the mainstream media--would be out defending her in force. As it is, the criticism is muted.


Who will be appointed if Caroline Kennedy is not? Right. It will be a leftist political hack--probably male. Will that be an improvement, from a conservative point of view? Of course not. The best result, from a conservative point of view, is probably for Caroline to be appointed, despite being obviously unqualified, in the face of conservative criticism. But this does explain te fact that some criticism of Caroline Kennedy is leaking into the mainstream media.


Go back to Barackk "World" Obama. Even thought the media was always for Obama, especially MSNBC, was there not more criticism of Obama leaking into mainstream media coverage when he was running against Hillary Clinton (even as Hillary was obviously shocked to be on the short end of media coverage)? Of course there was more critical, if of a muted kind, coverage of Obama when he was running against Hillary Clinton for the nomination. She was a leftist too, with supporters in the mainstream media. The same is true of leftists with their own alternative to Caroline Kennedy. They have their friends in the mainstream media. For all intents and purposes, conservatives and Republicnas--even those like McCain, when up against a Democrat instead of another Republican--have no friends in the mainstream media. So it is not surprising that some leftists have the "long knives" out for Caroline Kennedy, even if there are still not the unrelenting, unfair attacks like those against Sarah Palin (after all, Caroline may run against a Republican some day). Some leftists have their own candidate--their own agenda--in filling Clinton's Senate seat. Clinton herself may not be a big fan of Kennedy, given that Caroline (and Ted) supported Obama.


Nope. CNN, MSNBC and the rest are still the worst, sanctimonious hypocrites to ever walk the Earth.


Tammy Bruce--leftist turned conservative talk show host--has actually come out for Caroline Kennedy. As best I can tell, it is because Caroline is a woman, and the alternative is a lelftist, political hack male. You can tell both why Tammy Bruce was once a leftist (she tends to treat people as members of groups), and why she is now on the conservative side. I think she defended Sarah Palin, as well, and thus is consistent. Consistency is a virtue unknown to almost all of the sanctimonious hypocrites on the left.


I actually agree with Tammy Bruce that Caroline Kennedy is not disqualified from public office because she says "you now" a lot. This is actually another example of sanctimonious hypocrisy on the left, for whom the inarticulate fumbling of both President Bush and John McCain (as well as other Republicans) is conclusive proof they are stupid, while the gaffes of Joe Biden are just "good old Joe". Then there is Obama himself, who is "elogquent" only in reading a teleprompter--a trait that would have been highlighted more if he were a Republican. "Um" is heavily featured in Obama's speaking style off of the teleprompter.


Plus, Tammy Bruce has a point that the alternative to Caroline Kennedy is a male, leftist, lifetime politician, when the last thing we need in Washington is more members of the political "establishment" that has got us in so much trouble. Where Bruce is wrong, of course, is the suggestion that Caroline Kennedy is not part of the leftist establishment, just because part of that "establishment" has begun to trash her to advance their own candidate(s).


There is a more important reason Tammy Bruce is wrong. She agrees that Ted Kennedy should not be in the U.S. Senate. He killed a girl, and left her to die under the dark water while he consulted his lawyer. Ted Kennedy is in the U.S. Senate because he is a Kennedy. That is the same reason Caroline Kennedy is even being considered for appointment. That same sense of "entitlement" is why Caroline Kennedy would even dare to put herself forward for the positiion, with no discernible qualifications (and I think more of her accomplishments as a wife and mother than any of those leftists who trashed Sarah Palin--it being part of my identity crisis that the recent Presidential campaign exposed me as more of a feminist than most leftists). Carooline Kennedy--unlike Ronald Reagan--has not even been a prominent voice for any political positions.


The idea that Caroline Kennedy should be appointed to the Senate just because she is a Kennedy goes beyond what most conservatives can accept, even if the alternative might be regarded as worse.


So Tammy Bruyce is wrong on this one, and I am right. However, she is not obviously wrong, and there is an honesty to her position missing from the positions of almost all leftists. That is probably why she is no longer a leftist. Bruce has some solid arguments on her side, and this is something upon which conservatives can legitimately disagree. I admit to a soft spot for Bruce, despite her misguided support of abortion on demand (even if Bruce does condemn leftist feminists for their fanatic advocacy of abortion as seemingly the ultimate good), because Bruce has affirmatively labeled President Bush a leftist mole (without using those words) in the Republican Party. She has also roundly condemned the Republican "establishment". On these things, she is right on. I am not willing to say she is that wrong on Carline Kennedy--just wrong in failing to appreciate the corrosive idea that a person is qualified for public office just by being a Kennedy.