The winner of last night’s debate is probably RFK Jr. I’m guessing it will help his fundraising sufficiently to pay for enough TV ads to get him to the 15 percent of polling needed to be in the September debate.
As I’ve said before, the more Kennedy’s views are known, the better it will be understood that he’s in Trump’s conspiratorial lane. So Biden’s poor debate performance could actually help the Democrats in November by splitting the conspiracy theory vote.
Once people actually hear him speak, he’s done, though. So, I don’t think he’ll have any effect on the election.
It’s shallow of me, but I listened to an interview he did on NPR and really had to avoid changing the station due to his voice.
His views on a lot of things are pretty middle of the road. If he stays away from the looney parts he sounds like a regular candidate.
You can’t tell a looney not to be looney.
If you read his positions they don’t sound looney. Maybe unworkable but not looney. His positions on the main issues that are coming up don’t sound looney. Covid isn’t anyone’s priority now. His anti-corporate stance would appeal to left leaning more than right.
If you read his carefully prepared and vetted positions he doesn’t sound as looney as he does when talks out loud. Unfortunately the solution to this, taping his mouth shut, just isn’t feasible.
He will be 71 on January 17th, which would make him the second-oldest person to be elected President. This seems like a trend the country needs to work on.
His running mate is putting forth the idea that what this country needs is a good exorcism: RFK Jr.'s campaign has officially gone off the rails (msn.com)
" A new report in Rolling Stone lays out how Shanahan’s rhetoric about the two party-system has taken a dark turn. In her pitch to the Libertarian Party in May, she argued that Kennedy could win because he “understands the deeply troubling, almost demonic forces that have overtaken our agencies, and our culture.” The hedge with “almost” does nothing to alleviate my concern that Shanahan seems to think Washington may need a literal exorcism. And in a post on X last week, she published a list of 12 things she believes that the “uniparty hates” and “most Americans love.” (“Uniparty” is a shorthand for the idea that the Democrats and Republicans are merely two faces of the same establishment party.) The list included “democracy,” “parents raising their kids,” “humanity,” and, at No. 7, “questioning if the government might be satanically possessed.”
On the plus side, this probably means they will draw more voters from Trump than from B iden.
I mean, let’s try the exorcism idea. Worst case, nothing happens. Best case, we lose Ted Cruz and a few others.
And he’s the baby in the room compared to Biden, Trump, Jill Stein, and Cornel West. Maybe the Libertarians will nominate someone not eligible for the full Social Security.
They, in fact, did – he turns 41 in August (even their VP candidate is “only” 63).
she may have a point. i do enjoy the “almost” hedge. i’m fine with deadly sins of greed and power.
Wait, WHAT???
Even if “it’s not what it looks like” , even just alleged spit roasted dog looks bad. And really it’s the picture. I don’t care about the actual dog meat, to each their own, but the picture’s just beyond cringe, as the kids say today.
He should have got Governor Noem for his running mate, to lock up the entire dog-hating voting block.
Sooo, who benefits most from this nice little photo? Trump or Biden?
Is the photo real?
Is the photo real? Yes. RFK Jr confirms it, according to CNN.
However, he denies that it’s a dog, he claims that it’s a goat.
“The article is a lot of garbage. The picture that they said is of me eating a dog, it’s actually me eating a goat in Patagonia on a whitewater trip many years ago on the Futaleufu River. They say … they have an expert that has identified that as a dog carcass. It’s just not true,” Kennedy said.
Thank you.
Yanno, If I was a political genius like RFKJ, and a story about my sexual assault(s) was gaining traction, I’d sure want to throw up a smokescreen about eating dogs.
It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Lets see how it works out for him.
Where is the follow-up question: “So, you can tell the difference between goat meat and dog meat?”.