By all means appoint Caroline Kennedy to the Senate. Especially because she is unqualified and inexperienced. Anything to weaken the Democrat DNA and discredit the Kennedy dynasty further (if such a thing be possible) is A-OK with me.
We have become what we fought against in Britian. A handful of powerful political families who just swapped lordships and wealth with each passing king.
All this outrage over Caroline Kennedy seems misplaced to me. NY is going to have a liberal Democrat as its Senator no matter what. Let it be someone who is merely a symbol rather than someone who can actually get stuff done.
I would apply that to 95% of the chrome-plated turds who occupy that club at present.
Therefore I am indifferent if they crown the mutt Caroline to the NY senator critter slot. If it isn't her, it will be a different Leftist. It's NY, after all.
On principle, I reject the very idea of a political dynasty, no matter what the name or party. It is, in a word, OK, two words, simply unAmerican!
To discourage idiot delusional losers who happen to have accumulated huge wealth, I think the Constitutional prohibition should be clarified and made explicit: no serial family political eligibility!
I believe that the Adamses and the Roosevelts were separated by two generations, which was uncomfortable enough, and no great contributors to the ideals of the nation.