Geraldine Ferraro gave a thumbs down to Caroline Kennedy's bid for the Senate yesterday - even as the Camelot daughter won her biggest endorsement for the job, The Post has learned.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12202008/new s/politics/caroline_slap_145098.htm?xid= rss-page

I am very pleased to see Geraldine coming out against Caroline Kennedy. She has shunned the public (or rather ordinary folks and the press) for years and now she wants Hillary's Senate seat handed to her on a silver platter?

All because she's a Kennedy. RFK, Jr. is so much more qualified than her. But his downside with the powers that be is, he endorsed Hillary. Well, welcome to American Politics 101. The old-style, Clinton, work-your-heart-out politics is sooo passè. The only requirements for acceptance into the club now are:

1) Family name

2. Who you know
   
3. MONEY

Pre-ordained politicians is the new "hopey-changey." Earning and working your way up is out.

"You can't send someone down there who doesn't know the issues," Ferraro told The Post. "If you send someone down there who doesn't know the legislative process, they'll get chewed up alive."

"Our senator should be ready on Day 1," added Ferraro. "Just knowing people down there [in Washington, DC]? It's just not enough."

She is not ready but the MSM wants to convince people that she is. Caroline isn't getting the sexist treatment from the media either. Why is that?

Face it, our journalists are a bunch of snobs who can't stand it when people from uncool places like Arkansas or Alaska outshine them. They are perfectly willing to overlook flaws of people from the in crowd. This, not ideology or principle, is the source of their bias. Caroline IS PAYING TO PLAY -- she's getting the seat with the promise of how much money she can raise from her socialite friends. She's a DNC fund-raising machine and they know it.

Historical circumstances is not a good enough reason to assume that any member of the Kennedy clan is ready to lead, or more importantly deserves an appointment of national significance. Senator of NY is no small thing.Caroline Kennedy is not proving herself impressive in making her case to the public. If she gets the appointment anyway, most people will know why: political payback.

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   Nicholas Kristof's suggestion in recent NY Times op-ed that voting for Hillary Clinton is a vote for a political dynasty is about as silly an idea as I have ever heard. Dynasties result from inheriting offices not being elected to them...something that has not happened in our history.  There were three Presidents between John Adams and John Quincy Adams, two Clinton terms between G.H.W.Bush and G.W. Bush and there will be two G.W. Bush terms between Clinton and Clinton if Hillary is elected.  Dynasties and elected highest offices are contradictory terms and fears of a Clinton "dynasty" has to take the award for the most outrageous of red herrings.  
   If we want to strike a blow against inherited political power and toward the egalitarianism to which Kristof tips his hat, we can divest America's economic royalty (the grandchildren of the 19th Century economic barons) of the wealth they use to manipulate today's political landscape...and we can start with the Coors and Mellon families.

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