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Originally Posted by Joe
I'm certain the reason he got into politics was to eventually get elected to the same senate seat his father held. Had he been halfway respectable he could have walked into the senate. I think the realization that he's essentially failed himself, his family, the democratic party, and what remained of the Kennedy legacy made continuing pointless.
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All true, but also Patrick Kennedy knew the GOP would try to attack his seat with another Brown type candidate. Given he's weak at best on his own, and without his father standing behind him, I think he simply feared loosing.
-spence