Caroline's Campaign Bungles

A few weeks ago, a Camelot revival seemed all but inevitable. “But a strange thing is happening on the way to the coronation,” writes Michael Goodwin in the Daily News. “The wheels of the bandwagon are coming off. Fantasy is giving way to inescapable truth.” Goodwin argues that Kennedy has so far flubbed her campaign, relying on the imprimatur of her name and behaving like a highbrow Sarah Palin by insisting that media questions be submitted to her team in writing. “That truth is that Kennedy is not ready for the job and doesn't deserve it,” Goodwin writes. “Somebody who loves her should tell her.” On the same op-ed page as Goodwin, however, the late Senator Patrick Moynihan’s daughter endorses Kennedy, saying that she is “a first-rate constitutional scholar” and—interesting— “a wonderful hostess.” To those who say Kennedy is unqualified for having never held office before, Maura Moynihan says: “Neither had my father.”