Lets see, the father was a man who made his fortune as a rum runner who tried to buy his way into politics. He raised his privileged sons to pursue dads political dreams. The sons grew up with dads financial megabucks enabling them to have campaign chests capable of getting them elected. Their only real job in life was to be a politician push their own social agenda. They pursued social agendas that they themselves needn't worry about paying for, being independently wealthy on dads trust funds. John and Ted were both philanderers. Ted committed manslaughter at Chappaquiddick and the family bought his way out of it. The Kennedy's have been a privileged, dysfunctional egotistical family. I for one hope that this is the end of the so called political "dynasty".

BTW My own dad, now 88 years old and a staunch liberal, with a family who grew up and still lives in MA, dislikes the Kennedy's as much as I do.