Teddy Kennedy wants his wife to have his Senate seat

By GottaLaff
Teddy has chosen his successor:

Ted Kennedy has made clear to confidants that when his time is up, he wants his Senate seat to stay in the family - with his wife, Vicki.

Multiple sources in Massachusetts with close ties to the liberal lion say his wife of 16 years has long been his choice to continue carrying the family flame in the Senate. Kennedy won the seat in 1962; his brother John held it from 1953 to 1960.

Ted Kennedy could have suggested his nephew Joe, but he's been through a messy divorce and has also been tied to Hugo Chavez, who "assists his Boston-based fuel company for the poor."

The 54-year-old Victoria Reggie Kennedy, a former hotshot Washington lawyer, is a Louisiana native and the daughter of a politically active judge.

She was hailed for holding the family together when John F. Kennedy Jr. was killed in a plane crash in 1999.

By favoring his wife, Kennedy, 76, is bypassing his late brother Robert Kennedy's eldest son, Joe, a former congressman. [...]

Under current Massachusetts law, his successor for the rest of his term, which ends in 2012, would be picked by special election. [...] Political pros, however, say a dying Kennedy's endorsement of Vicki would likely carry enormous weight with state voters.

I'm still reeling from the news of his cancer. There are some people you think will magically live forever.