RFK Jr. as Independent Would Propel Trump
to Deliver Crushing Blow
American Greatness,
by
Roger Kimball
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
10/1/2023 1:14:28 PM
So it looks as if Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is just about to turn up the volume. It was bad enough for the Democratic establishment when he announced he was going to run for President on the Democratic ticket. Didn’t he know that The Committee already had its heir and a couple of spares, none of whom was named Kennedy? “Look at your poll numbers, Bro. Even against a senile and visibly failing puppet you are trailing by 50 or 60 points. Give it up now before you embarrass yourself further!”
No such luck. It seems that Kennedy is in for the duration. A couple of days ago rumors
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 10/1/2023 1:30:29 PM (No. 1567005)
Yes, and this is why I'll send Kennedy money if he runs.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/1/2023 1:36:10 PM (No. 1567010)
Kimball has a way with words:
According to my astrolabe, the glitter has dissipated somewhat from Ramaswamy. He is powerfully glib, has put forth many good policy ideas, but often seems like a reincarnation of the Energizer Bunny—if not, it pains me to say, that character in Humbolt’s Gift whom Saul Bellow described as “smooth as a suppository.”
I have been thinking "glib". A negative.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
john56 10/1/2023 2:12:23 PM (No. 1567035)
I'm not sure about this. I see some of our Democrat friends could figure a way to clandestinely package RFK Jr. as an option for those suburban soccer moms who supposedly moved from Trump in 2016 because of his "mean tweets" to that nice, grandfatherly guy in his basement, Biden , in 2020.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Omen55 10/1/2023 2:13:28 PM (No. 1567039)
The $1B question.
If Trump is who all of dem want GOP to run so they can easily defeat him why are all of dem trying to stop him being the nom?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/1/2023 2:13:37 PM (No. 1567040)
Dropping this in because we have a few here who try to discredit Sundance at CTH by sniffing and calling him a "conspiracy theorist" (never mind that he backs his theories with links to sources).
Perhaps this is also the place to say a word about “conspiracy theories.” Have you noticed that the phrase is nearly always used with an aura of disapproval. It’s almost as if the people who employ the phrase to discredit someone whose ideas they dislike believe that there are no such things as conspiracies about which one might develop compelling theories. But when Calpurnia and the Soothsayer warned Caesar about a conspiracy to assassinate him, they spoke not idly but truthfully. Their theory, that is to say, was grounded in empirical fact. How about the theory that the Wuflu, aka Covid 19, originated in an American-funded Chinese lab whose experiments were overseen in part by Anthony Fauci. Was that a “conspiracy theory?” Or was it a conspiracy exposure? In any event, I think it is worth bearing in mind the extent to which the accusation that someone is a “conspiracy theorist” is often just a way of declaring him beyond the pale, not worth listening to, beneath our consideration.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jar 10/1/2023 2:23:31 PM (No. 1567052)
All this is supposing a fair election. As to a RINO running mate for RFK jr: how about Lynne Cheney?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 10/1/2023 2:35:14 PM (No. 1567055)
Talking about conspiracy theories - He better keep in mind what they did to his uncle and father!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 10/1/2023 3:02:18 PM (No. 1567066)
FTA "Who knows whether Joe Biden the candidate will make it to the November 2024 election? I have been suggesting for some time that he wouldn’t. The consensus is solidifying that he is but one serious fall away from Golden Pond." Sorry, I can't stop laughing over that comment.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 10/1/2023 3:12:48 PM (No. 1567068)
The only "crushing blow" will be on Trump when overwhelming Democrat creating propels Biden or his replacement into the White House. At that point there may be big trouble.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 10/1/2023 4:11:05 PM (No. 1567092)
Fundamental disagreement here as to RFK's boost to Trump. To the contrary. RFK has attacked the COVID shutdown, endorses closing the border and demands an end to the Ukrainian quagmire. These are all issues that energize independents and even some disgusted Democrats finally on their way to voting Republican. RFK stalls them half way.
It's too facile to say that any "Democrat" defecting to run as an Independent automatically drains Democrat votes. Kennedy is way out of the mainstream of that party, and stead 3/4ths of his issues from Trump I think he steals votes or at least distracts attention from Trump.
This does not help.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Faithfully 10/1/2023 6:26:12 PM (No. 1567171)
Men running for office can and will promise anything. Remember "Lock her up"?
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I would not be too unhappy if Trump winning again means that Kennedy could have a spot someplace in the Trump administration. Kennedy still has a lot of his liberal views, but on many things he is being red-pilled.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 10/2/2023 1:59:48 PM (No. 1567768)
RFK will make it less easy for Democrats to steal 2024. They will have to erase RFK votes in addition to inventing Biden votes.
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