Unqualified. Check. Only reason for running is her last name. Also check. So that makes her as qualified as the last two pols who held that Senate seat.
Democratic bigwigs are already rumbling about a Kennedy vs. Clinton showdown, should Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand set her sights on the White House in 2020. Both contenders would be former First Daughters: Chelsea Clinton and Caroline Kennedy.
“What you’re witnessing is the beginning of Chelsea Clinton’s political career,” says a source who has a longstanding relationship with both the Clinton and Kennedy families.
“Chelsea had that Twitter war with Kellyanne Conway — she’s engaging in the political arena,” says our insider.
Twitter trolling is now a Senate qualifier? Sure, why not.
Chelsea would be running for her mother's old seat. Governor Patterson, who was governor for roughly two seconds after the Spitzer meltdown and before the Cuomo coup, decided to appoint Gillibrand because of her familial political connections. Gillibrand decided to rebrand from conservative upstate Dem to professional liberal victim in around two seconds.
Caroline Kennedy was expecting to get the Senate seat from Obama in exchange for her backing him over Hillary. But then a mostly blind African-American governor grabbed the seat out from under Obama. And done was done.
Also most New Yorkers were not fans of Princess Caroline getting the seat by virtue of her last name.
Replacing Hillary Clinton and Gillibrand with Chelsea Clinton or Caroline Kennedy couldn't be more perfect. Neither have any qualifications for anything except that their father used to be president.
The Senate seat in question used to be the Moynihan. And he was one of the last great Dem senators. Then he had the indignity of retiring and stepping back so Bill Clinton's wife could carpetbag her way to a presidential run. The seat became even more of a joke under Gillibrand who wants to run for president based on... nothing.
Replacing nothing with nothing is a fair tribute to nothingness.