No thanks.
Is there a new political family tradition emerging? Kennedy, Clinton, Bush...now Cheney? Dynasties?
I’m younger than most Freepers, so I could be classified as Low Info for this one.
I don’t think it is a new tradition. It has been around as long as the Nation and predates it elsewhere as well.
The Lee family, the Adams family, the Frelinghuysens of New Jersey, all through the previous centuries. In England even without the landed Peers, the tradition was the same.
Burke had a lot to say about “natural aristocracy” as opposed to hereditary aristocracy. We see it skipping generations as well. People look upon their elder family members choices and service with respect and often want to follow in their footsteps in the military, medicine, business and elsewhere.
While it is true that in politics name recognition issues are different from other professions, I would not condemn this outright except with people trying to start a dynasty in the same office such as the Kennedy, Bush and Clinton families.