Posted on 06/16/2023 7:32:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Recent polling indicates that RFK Jr. enjoys more favorability among potential voters than most of his competitors in the Democrat primary as well as GOP candidates.
Via The Hill:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer who is running for the Democratic nomination for president, has a higher favorability rating than many of the other 2024 presidential candidates, according to a new poll.
The poll from The Economist and YouGov released Wednesday showed Kennedy was viewed favorably by 49 percent of respondents, giving him the highest net favorability rating of 19 points. He was viewed unfavorably by 30 percent.
President Biden and former President Trump each had the second-highest percentage of respondents viewing them favorably, with 44 percent saying so. But Biden had a minus-9 net favorability rating, while Trump had a minus-10 net favorability rating.
I quote The Hill here to point out the ubiquitous framing with which any story related to RFK Jr. in the mainstream media begins: RFK Jr., they must remind everyone at all times, is an “anti-vaccine activist” first and foremost and therefore disqualified from any serious consideration.
The “anti-vax” smear is so saturated in corporate state media rhetoric that I often don’t take the effort to debunk it. For the record, RFK Jr. is not, in fact, “anti-vaccine.” As he patiently explained to a willfully obtuse Piers Morgan and has elsewhere ad nauseam, which never forces a revision of the corporate state media’s framing of him, he is not, in fact, “anti-vaccine.”
Vaccine technology, as RFK Jr. recognizes, is real and useful when it’s appropriately applied.
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And his 2nd Amendment position is,,,,,just askin for a FRiend
“anti-vaccine”
No, he’s anti-experimental vaccine that has made some of my family members ill and others get blood clots.
Anyone who is still getting the Clot Shot simply isn’t educated on it.
But that voice. Could you stand four years of that?
He said the 2nd is settled, we have the right to own arms. Unfortunately he is a climate radical and dangerous because he really believes that BS.
RE: But that voice. Could you stand four years of that?
I’ll take that over Criminal Joe’s mumblings and incoherence ( come to think of it, I’ll miss Joe Biden’s comedy hour if the future of our country weren’t at stake ).
He seems to understand that the 2A means what it says.
He’s the new Ron Paul.
RFK is a pro-abortion extremist, however.
Very sad...Maybe it will spur more research...though I believe it is very rare.
Believing you...but can you give a citation for reference?
I hope he knows what he’s doing and how much danger he’s in.
The dems have no problem giving him a dirt knap if it looks like he will win the primary.
He spoke at my college when I was an undergrad. Completely unhinged, left-wing lunatic. Spoke about the “fanatical technocratic evil” of the Catholic Church using ultrasound to prove the humanity of unborn children. See, in his mind, the American Medical Association is a papist puppet which invented modern medicine only so they could enslave women as baby-breeding machines so they could blanket the Earth with enough humanity to wipe out all the precious salamanders.
If he made more over Swamp draining comments, he would be interesting — as a 3rd party candidate who will destroy Biden.
Remember . . . all it takes is a pro Choice position and votes drain from Democrat women. Women are the bulk of Dem votes.
His 2nd amendment position makes him interesting. His anti war positions ditto. The media understands the threat he poses.
What the right wing needs to understand is the awesome power of campaign staff. If we could grow his and get them funded, they could very well persuade him to run 3rd party. The longer he runs, the longer they get paid.
But did you notice? They didn't call him "fringe" this time. The demoncraps are getting worried about dopey Joe's chances in 2024.
He claims that he is pro 2nd Amendment.
“My position on the gun control is I’m not going to take away anybody’s guns,” Mr Kennedy, 69, said in response to a listener-submitted question about gun control while speaking about his political platform with Elon Musk and venture capitalist David Sacks. “I’m a constitutional absolutist. We can argue about whether the Second Amendment was intended to protect guns. That argument has now been settled by the Supreme Court.”
However, I can't vouch for his history on the subject and I don't necessarily trust him.
I think the biggest problem with him would be on "climate change".
After 4 years of bidet...yes.
Whoa.
Heavy.
Thx.
RFK Jr.
Kinda like recycling toxic waste.
Any and everything Kennedy is toxic.
From Old Joe to his kids and their kids.
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