Yes kiddies, there was once a time when headlines like this automatically sank a political candidate.
From Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail:
“The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumour campaign about his opponent’s life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows.*
“Christ, we can’t get away with calling him a pig-fucker,” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody’s going to believe a thing like that.”
*“I know,” Johnson replied. “But let’s make the sonofabitch deny it.”
These days, supporters of RFK Jr. and Trump wouldn’t blink an eye. Either “fake news”, or who cares?
Well, that’s a relief but at the very least this should lose him… the vegans, anyway.
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Damn… at this pace by the time the September debate rolls around we’re going to have allegations and pictures that are going to make us long for the more civilized times when people were publicly embarrassed for things like video in blackface or online dick pics or driving around DC naked on Ambien or blasting your lawyer in the face with a shotgun.
So sexual assault is okay if you’re not a church boy? And who is he trying to kid calling himself a boy at his age, now or at the time of the sexual assault.
Cooney told Reuters on Tuesday that the details in the Vanity Fair article on the assault were accurate.
When asked about the allegation, Kennedy told a podcast on Tuesday, “I am not a church boy.”
“I had a very, very rambunctious youth,” he told podcaster Saagar Enjeti. “I said in my announcement speech that I have so many skeletons in my closet that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world.”
RFK Jr. is, no doubt, aware that for many Trump fans, the numerous allegations of committing sexual assault are considered a positive. They admire him for assaulting women.
I’m guessing that RFK Jr. would like to turn some of that admiration on himself.
Perhaps that was RFK’s drug-fueled dream all along. Be standing there with his hands in his pockets when Biden keels over. Be that figuratively or literally.
It was always a (stupid) long shot, but stupid people are known for having stupid brainstorms. Feeble stupid brainstorms.
Thinking he could win the presidency would be stupid. But, unfortunately, in publicizing his issues he may be advancing them. If schools stop taking student vaccination requirements seriously, we may have Kennedy - Shanahan to thank, or vilify, depending on what you think about the issue.
If the assault occurred in the late '90s (as stated in the article), he was between 40 and 45 years old (he was born in 1954). Rambunctious youth, my ass.
Video of a call between Jr. and Trump was leaked by the RFK camp. Trump called him Sunday to try to wheel and deal, offering him a position in his administration if he endorses Trump. He starts by buttering him up with anti-vax nonsense and ends by sharing what he and Biden talked about when Biden called him after the shooting. RFK says he is mortified by the leak. Guess we will see if he takes Trump up on his offer.
