The Democrats have treated Kennedy as a traitor and have been doing their worst to knock him off ballots. Since the Harris switcheroo he has lost most of his support from Democrats. He stands now at five percent. If they were to go Trump that might well be decisive. Stay tuned sports fans. The wildest of election years careens on its way.
Here’s hoping that Jr has serious personal security around him and his family. And I don’t mean any Fed employees.
Like the rest of his family, RFK Jr.is no saint. I just read “Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed.” While he my not be as terrible as Ted or others who are guilty of rape or manslaughter, he was instrumental in his seconds wife’s suicide.
There are no saints in this race. A sign of the times.
So where would RFK Jr fit in a second Trump Administration? Some folks have suggested Attorney General (probably just for the “repeating history” value) or Health and Human Services (because of his anti-vax stance), but the best suggestion I’ve seen yet is to put him in charge of the investigation into the Trump assassination attempt….
As for RFK Jr’s remark that his father and his uncle wouldn’t recognize today’s Democrat Party, if he’s referring to his uncle Jack that’s probably true, but his uncle Ted probably would recognize it, in fact he helped bring it into existence.
CIA would be an interesting appointment, to say the least, Elaine.
I don’t like RFK Jr’s pro-abortion and pro-sodomy stance. And while head of Riverkeeper in southeastern NY, he became responsible (though Andy Cuomo is far more guilty) for the eventual permanent shutdown of my alma mater, the Indian Point nuclear power plants due to his virulent anti-nuclearism. BUT……I don’t have the visceral animosity against him that I do with almost every single Democrat. Sometimes I even like him, especially when he was doing commercials for a bench press assist device to be used by exercise enthusiasts like me with shoulder issues (BTW, today is chest and abs day at lunctime). He seemed really human and personable. As Donald said, there are no saints in this race. But even with all his faults (and his absolutely stupid anti-nuclearism that I loathe), I much prefer him over many others because I think he’s basically honest (sometimes honestly wrong, but honest nevertheless).
but his uncle Ted probably would recognize it,
He probably would Elaine, but even he likely would be astonished how Jew haters have become so influential in his party.
Such a change from the 1990’s when Pat Buchanan was excoriated as an anti-Semite for complaining about the Israel lobby and “their Amen corner in Congress.” Israel was untouchable in American politics back then.
I read the Wikipedia article about RFK Jr.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.
Of course Wikipedia is biased against RFK Jr. But he’s even more of a wacko environmentalist than I remembered him at Riverkeeper. And like me, he got addicted to heroin and cocaine, but thanks be to God, he got sober. However, if Wikipedia is correct, even without his three marriages he was quite the womanizer (I’m not judging because I was a whoremonger submarine sailor in my youth). I guess he never made it into http://www.sa.org (something my AA sponsor threatened me with). However, he has described himself as a devout Catholic, then he’ll say that he isn’t a church boy. He’s a real mixed bag, guys, and a very mixed up man, too. But I really can’t judge him because I’m very mixed up too. I don’t know if he’s suitable for any role in Trump’s cabinet because he is so volatile. But he can’t do worse that the Democrats. I still like him, but I can’t stand his anti-nuclear nonsense and his wacko environmentalism.
He is a pro-abort. Says enough about him. Trump needs him or he needs Trump. It’s politics.
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I just read “Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed.”
Now, in Ask Not, bestselling author and journalist Maureen Callahan reveals the Kennedys’ hidden history of violence and exploitation, laying bare their unrepentant sexism and rampant depravity while also restoring these women and girls to their rightful place at the center of the dynasty’s story: from Jacqueline Onassis and Marilyn Monroe to Carolyn Bessette, Martha Moxley, Mary Jo Kopechne, Rosemary Kennedy, and many others whose names aren’t nearly as well known but should be.
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The foregoing is the publisher’s blurb. Problem: Marilyn Monroe met the Kennedy brothers once or twice; as a human being, she was quite hopeless; the Kennedys were not figures of significance in her life. Carolyn Bessette and her sister died in an accident; her husband over-estimated his skills as a pilot; he wasn’t doing anything predatory. Martha Moxley never crossed paths with the Kennedys in her life; her assailant was a collateral relative of Robert Kennedy’s children that the rest of the clan did not know. Rosemary Kennedy was a victim of her father, to be sure, but even more was she the victim of Walter Freeman and one other purveyor of psychosurgery.