By James F. Buckley

It was reported by the mainstream media that shortly before Senator Ted Kennedy’s death he had a dying wish of sorts, and that was for the Massachusetts state legislature to a reverse that which he saw to enact and did in fact become law a number of years before.  That is, to enact a special election to fill a sitting Senator’s seat.

Of course, such was the case when John Kerry ran for president and Mitt Romney was the sitting governor.  Now with Deval Patrick in the governorship, the Dems in the commonwealth desired that he have the power to appoint an interim successor, no special election needed here, and they got what they sought, no surprise there.

The blatant and stunning hypocrisy is not the real story, for this coming from the Democrats, what else would one expect?  The real story is the fact that Kennedy could not have verbalized such a wish unless he had done it weeks if not months before, so why was it not reported then?  I know this for a fact, and here is the reason why.

Ted Kennedy suffered from what took my brother several years ago.  The brain cancer is called a glioma, and it’s a very nasty thing.  Nicknamed terminator by the medical community, it invariably takes its victim in about 12-14 months.  Given Kennedy’s public disclosure to his eventual death, we have about a year, so, there you go.

In the last several months of my brother’s life, he was inaudible, bed ridden, and spoon-fed baby food as meals.  I know because I did the spooning, and it’s something I will never forget.  Kennedy was surely in a similar state, therefore, suggesting he expressed anything more than a moan or grunt is very hard for me to believe.

– Jim