>>>While I feel very badly for Kennedy - his credibility level has been zero for decades.
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>>To you maybe. He is greatly respected by his colleagues, Republicans included.
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>My guess is that the respect he has from them is somewhat less their verbalised expressions of that respect would indicate. Not speaking ill of the dead often extends to the very ill.

You miss my point. He has been a respected Senator for a long time. There was no need for him to be a good legislator and he has been anyway.