NY Senate Seat

Well, it appears that Governor Paterson is close to a decision, though he won't announce until after Hillary is approved as Secretary of State and resigns, and that Caroline Kennedy is now actively seeking the Senate seat.

This would be a disaster, and perhaps the only way the Republicans have a chance of picking of the seat in 2010.

Caroline Kennedy is an intensely private person (or at least as intensely private as you can be if you are a child of JFK), and she is a lousy campaigner, as was shown on those few occasions that she the stump for Obama.

She may not be as bad at campaigning as her cousin Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who gave Republicans the Governor's mansion for the first time since Spiro Agnew in Maryland, but it's close.

There is also the entire dynastic issue, which is troubling.

While there are other likely candidates for this seat (Andrew Cuomo) who have clearly got a leg up on the political ladder because of their parentage, Kennedy has never before even taken the ladder out, and it is simply in conflict with what should be American values to hand her a position like this.