Typically, Alec Baldwin uses his platform to come out against easy targets like Sarah Palin and Dane Cook's vagina-like face. However, his ambivalent HuffPo blogging about Caroline Kennedy has been messing with his audience's mindgrapes.

First, Baldwin blogged that Hillary Clinton's Senate spot ought to go to a woman (he suggested Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney), but shouldn't remain the "Celebrity Senate Seat" that Clinton transformed it into. Some of the HuffPo bloggers saw that as a veiled attack on potential seat-filler Caroline Kennedy, which Baldwin was not happy about:

Man-oh-man-oh-man! All of this tedious crap on the pages of this blog about how I do not love/appreciate Caroline Kennedy enough!

You're kidding, right?

My father was a Democratic committeeman in our home town. He took me to St. Patrick's for Senator Kennedy's funeral in 1968 when I was ten years old. I was bred to be a Democrat! I am friends with many members of that family. I am a fervent supporter of some of their individual causes. [...]

This is more about protecting a Democratic Senate seat than romanticizing it.

Appoint an individual (fine...man or woman) who has been elected to something. Something! Then there is a race in 2010, if I understand New York's electoral mechanics properly. That is not that long from now. Then certain New Yorkers could run. And probably win. I would probably vote for her (er...them).

Certainly, Alec knows a little something about the dynastic perils of politics; after all, were it not for his own good name, would we have had to deal with Stephen Baldwin's current right-wing punditry? Appoint Caroline Kennedy, and we could run the risk of a Senator with Miley Cyrus tattoos and a pressing need to give tax kickbacks to the Skinemax "erotic thriller" industry.