...I mean apart from Ted being dead? Charlie apparently keeps his womanizing and car-wrecking separate:
Ted Kennedy lettered in college football. Ted Kennedy was an outstanding public speaker. And though considered a lightweight and a clown in the Kennedy family, Ted actually had some reasonable and well thought out positions politically (that I didn't agree with). And of course Ted Kennedy did have a reasonably stable family life the last 10 years or so.
He helped kill the Democrats in Congress. That's something. Obama did most of the work, but Ted helped.