MA-SEN Megathread: Senator Markey wins

[EastAnglianLefty]

But you're going to see Gen X and Millenials and even Zoomers start wising up and voting for people who are more in touch with their generational struggles and not replaying political squabbles from 50 years ago. More AOC's, JK3's etc.

I'm not sure that a literal member of the Kennedy family has faced the same generational struggles as your average Gen Xer or Millenial.

[EastAnglianLefty]

Could Kennedy be anymore transparent that he's just using the Senate seat as a launchpad in 2024?

He's going to have to improve significantly as a debater if that's going to be at all plausible.

[EastAnglianLefty]

To me, the most exciting thing about this race is that if Kennedy loses, his career is basically over. The thought of that just makes me happy.

It would also end more than seventy years of virtually uninterrupted Kennedy service in the United States Congress, as a member of that family has served in either the House or the Senate since 1947 (with the exception of the years 2011-2013). My hope is that this century will put an end to political dynasties of this nature. I don't want any more Kennedys, Bushes, or Clintons. And hopefully, we won't get any more Trumps either after this one leaves office.

So people have used the logic that someone shouldn’t win based on their last name but aren’t you suggesting someone should lose purely based on their last name? So if someone wants to make a difference and run for office they should be disqualified because they had a relative that did so? That’s BS.

I don’t look at the Kennedy’s and Bush the same way I think of Clinton (at least Hillary) and the Trumps. The Kennedy’s and Bushs both had members of the family who distinguishedly served the nations military in brave combat rolls. I look at Hillary and the Trumps as people in it for the wrong reasons.

It's 75 years since a member of the Kennedy or Bush families saw active service. Having a family member who served in WW2 is in any case not particularly rare.

[EastAnglianLefty]

Not being able to give a coherent answer when asked why you're running is, to be fair, traditional for a Kennedy.