Via Wonkette:
By 2018, will EVERY Democratic candidate be a relative of someone who made it on his or her own? #DecadentLiberalism http://t.co/2laoazcKLG
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 26, 2014
This is a trenchant comment coming from a man whose hard work and self-sacrifice enabled him to be born the son of the “Godfather of modern conservatism.”
The Foreign Exchanges Companion 
The time has come to play two handed economist again.
I really don’t like political dynasties. Not only is Hilary Clinton on track to run, but Jeb Bush is making noises and FOR GOD’S SAKE George P Bush has emerged from the holding pen for strapping young patriots and why is he not fighting in Iraq? That Biden boy got hammered for cocaine use that George W would have laughed off as a dull afternoon, but at least he stepped up and volunteered. So I believe it was Kristol Pere but it may have been some other neocon luminary who was written up in one of the politics magazines for doing this and doing that to smooth the way for his son, only to take some time and denounce affirmative action on the grounds that it destroys meritocracy.
You can not tell me there is no army of competent and eager young politicians out there, ready to leap in and lead the country.
On the other hand, here in ivory tower scientist land we have what I consider to be a disturbing tradition of the children of prominent scientists becoming scientists in their turn. According to our own mythology this really ought to be the one archmeritocratic profession that rules them all. But the reality is that there is a pool of guys (mostly) who are good enough technically for what needs to be done and the holders of the lucky tickets rise in the lottery – for which a little bit of insider grooming can go a long way, which is precisely the critique of Larry Summers and his boneheaded argument that the male IQ curve has greater variance so men have more geniuses as well as more doofuses drawn from the same average. Once you get above IQ 130 or so, other factors decide who rises and who falls.
So I am raising daughter to be aware of the snakepits and deadfalls of academic life so that she may readily avoid them if she chooses the life, and I don’t blame the politicos for doing the same with their youngsters. It’s not necessarily sinister and it might, principle, give rise to a better political class than we otherwise might see.
But as your example up shows, neither is it necessarily working.