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When I first heard that Kennedy was running for president, I was hoping it was John Kennedy, that is, John Neely Kennedy, the sharp-tongued senator from Louisiana who has skewered the Left with his acid wit on the Senate floor more than once. But alas, JNK’s hat isn’t in the ring.
The new presidential candidate on the scene today is RFK, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy. RFK Jr.’s candidacy has a chance to be just as refreshing as if the senator from Louisiana were actually running, for the scion of the famous family is no doctrinaire Leftist. That’s not to say he is a conservative, either. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is his own man. That’s what makes him so intriguing.
RFK Jr. is, of course, a Democrat. He and Marianne Williamson are so far the only challengers Old Joe Biden is facing for the 2024 nomination. While RFK will get some attention on the basis of his name only, he faces an uphill battle against an incumbent that few people like but that no one has been able to figure out how to replace. Kennedy will be palatable to few Democrats because of his resolute stance against not just the COVID-19 vaccine, but vaccines in general.
“By inserting himself into the vaccine debate,” Town & Country wrote in a lengthy 2021 profile of the man, “Kennedy has lost friendships, business opportunities, and influence within the Democratic Party.” Even his own family has denounced him: his sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who has served as chair of the Global Virus Network, his brother Joseph P. Kennedy II, and his niece Maeve Kennedy McKean wrote an article in Politico in May 2019 entitled: “RFK Jr. Is Our Brother and Uncle. He’s Tragically Wrong About Vaccines.”
Maybe he is. But 2019 is not 2023. The suspicions that RFK Jr. had at that time about the COVID vaccine have by now been abundantly borne out. Most people would have dismissed his warnings about other vaccines out of hand before the COVID hysteria, but now, after we have seen the perfidy and dishonesty of Big Pharma, RFK doesn’t look so nutty.
In his own defense, meanwhile, Kennedy invokes his own family history, recounting his famous father, who was the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 before he was cut down by an assassin’s bullet:
My dad, when he came out against Vietnam, had everybody against him. The New York Times, all the labor unions—he ran against Johnson, he had every friend basically abandon him when he ran against the president in his own party.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
Only thing is that if the new Robert Kennedy is the nominee, a lot of communist Dems may sit it out, and even all that rigging won’t be able to salvage him
PMK says
Dems are not likely to sit it out with RFK leading the ticket. He’s more liberal than most Republican candidates he might face. Dems’ hatred for Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis will make them swallow their pride and vote, however grudgingly, for RFK. Staying home, especially in some battleground states, would be self-defeating. Dems won’t make that mistake.
somehistory says
I personally like Mr. Kennedy. Even if he has a d by his name. He is not afraid to say what the thinks, even when other ‘d’s’ try to discredit him.
Keith O says
I wonder if he will become such a threat to the status quo that he will have a single veh accident or commit suicide by shooting himself 5 times in the back of the head at the hands of Killary?
somehistory says
An accident in his car caused by the suicide shots to the back of his head while driving home. .Perhaps a soros da will find something to charge against him in the meantime.
tgusa says
In today’s democrat party Kennedy’s would have to sit at the back of the bus until the crats want to bring him forward and flog him.
tgusa says
He is still a democrat? I guess he will stick with that bad romance up until the end. Well, there’s no accounting for taste as bad as it might be.
somehistory says
Will he not have to remain a democrat to run against biden without running against Trump in the campaign to choose a candidate?
Unless he became independent, but which independent has ever won?
tgusa says
He could run as a dem or as an indy but he will still come out a loser. I dont wish that upon him but what I wish for doesn’t account for much.
“The problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.” Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
somehistory says
As some have said in the past, it’s all decided ahead of time and the votes don’t really mean a thing.
Like the story about carter…a meeting was going on and carter walked by outside. Someone in the meeting pointed to carter and said, “he’s the next president” and he was.
tgusa says
No doubt and all over the western world. Somethings happening here and what it is ain’t exactly clear. The powers that be are fighting for their lives to conceal that truth. As we hear, democracy dies in darkness which accounts for the contemporary darkness we see now.
James Lincoln says
RFK Jr, at least on the surface, appears to be an “old school” classic liberal – more like JFK.
At the very least, he would be better than Biden.