And You Thought Chicago Was A Corrupt Bastion of Cronyism…

Elitism is alive and well in the Democrat party despite the cry of hope and change.  Here’s a summary, courtesy of the Rosset Report:

Eight years ago, a Senate seat from the Banana State was won by the wife of a sitting president of the republic. That wife had never before resided in Banana State, but she bought a house there, campaigned with the aura and entourage accorded to a presidential spouse, and with one leap, winning her first elected office ever, she became a senator.

Riding a national political machine to re-election for a second term, that former first lady swiftly turned her Senate seat into a springboard for her own campaign for the presidency. She lost, but took a job in the new administration, leaving the governor of Banana State to appoint a replacement senator.

That governor was himself a replacement, due to the resignation of the elected governor, a crusading moralist caught in a prostitution scandal. As the replacement governor prepared to name a replacement senator, a former president’s daughter declared her interest in the Senate seat – which one of her uncles had won some 44 years earlier, and was using as a springboard for his own presidential run, after serving as attorney-general in his brother’s presidential administration. This former first daughter had recently worked on the campaign of the President-elect – an experience that awakened in her an appetite for politics – but she had reached the age of 51 with no direct experience of her own in public office. Nonetheless, another of her uncles, also a senator, was ready to endorse her for this leap to the Senate. So was the mayor of Big Plum (the biggest city in Banana State), who on his own turf had just succeeded in scrapping a two-term limit so he could run for a third term – which he justified as a way of offering people a broader choice (namely, himself).

Read the whole thing here. 

There’s really not much else you can say.  If you see nothing wrong with this scenario that you have serious problems or you’re a liberal.  Political cronyism continues to run rampant in the Democratic party and when the “cronies” involved are Kennedys, then watch out.  The Democrats’ sycophantic crush on this arrogant band of self-aggrandizing elitists never ends.  Allahpundit has an idea:

We really should consider setting aside a permanent seat for the Kennedys, and I say that as someone who wants to see less of them in public life, not more. Give them their own spot, fully inheritable, to be filled by whomever the family designates, and you might just placate them enough to discourage other members of the brood from running. As it is, we’re looking at Caroline in New York, Teddy’s wife replacing him in Massachusetts, and just maybe Chris Kennedy as a dark horse in Illinois. This dynastic nonsense is already an American disgrace; let’s go the whole nine yards, grant them nobility, and limit them to one spot out of 100.

And of course, the media still loves the idea of dynastic ambition with wealthy, liberals.

H/T: Instapundit

(UPDATE)
This is becoming a farce of ridiculous proportions.  The NY Post endorses Caroline Kennedy (Allahpundit).