Kennedy would still be a democrat. He'd never be able to suffer the rubes that make up the GOP these days.
Originally Posted by timpage
Ideologically, Kennedy would be pretty close to Joe Lieberman. A social liberal, a budget hawk and a defense hawk. And a partisan who would be willing to be bi-partisan when the situation required it. In retrospect, his biggest flaw was that he was late to the party on civil rights.
He would be right in the middle, where there really is no survivable ground in today's political climate. Oddly enough, in retrospect he was probably more conservative than Nixon turned out to be (wage and price controls, EPA, off the gold standard, etc.).