This will show if New York Governor David Paterson has any balls.

Now that Caroline Kennedy has officially gone public with her desire to be handed Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat, I’m going to double-down on my previously stated objections.  The fact that both Al Sharpton and Senator Milquetoast, Harry Reid, are supporting her anointment are sure signs that I’m in the right here.

Glad to see I’m in good company…

Atrios:

I find the whole unfolding Caroline Kennedy saga to be rather depressing. Not just that she’s being considered (in the press if not elsewhere), but that she’s running a public campaign which involves reaching out to elites. The whole thing is just weird and feeds into the politics as personality soap opera that the press loves to focus on.

Greg Saunders:

Seriously, this isn’t a joke. If Caroline Kennedy were a normal candidate for elected office, she’d have a website in which she presented herself to the people she’s trying to represent, but the closest I could find to that in five minutes of Googling was a Wikipedia bio and her entry at the IMDB.

Andrew Sullivan:

Kennedy is not as dumb, crass or as uneducated as Sarah Palin. But she is less qualified to be a Senator than Palin. I am so sick of this nepotism. What are we, some kind of neo-monarchy? Clinton got her seat because of nepotism and now Kennedy gets it be the same methods.

Well, at least Clinton’s nepotism was decided by the voters.

Sorry, but being a Kennedy is not a qualification for elective office.  I agree with Jane Hamsher.  If she wants to serve, she should at least be elected.