Posted on 10/10/2023 8:46:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As he announced that he will be running for President as an independent candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s own siblings have thrown him under the bus and endorsed Joe Biden, labelling their brother as “dangerous” to America.
Within view of where the first and only independent candidate to win the American presidency helped establish the new country’s government, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood in front of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Oct. 9 and told supporters he believes he will take a similar path to the White House.
“Today, we are turning a new page in American politics,” Mr. Kennedy said after making the expected announcement that he will run for president as an independent in the 2024 election and depart the Democratic Party’s primary.
“There have been independent candidates before. But this time is different. This time, the independent is going to win,” Mr. Kennedy said.
“Three-fourths of Americans believe President Biden is too old to govern effectively. President Trump faces multiple civil and criminal trials. Both have favorability ratings deep in negative territory," he said.
"That is what two-party politics has given us, and that is why we need to pry loose the hammerlock of corrupt power over Washington D.C. and make this nation ours again.”
But his siblings were furious, as he suspected they would be:
“It is painful for me to let go of the party of my uncles, my father, of my grandfather, and of both of my great-grandfathers—John 'Honey Fitz' Fitzgerald, Boston’s first Irish Catholic mayor, and Patrick Kennedy, a Boston ward boss—who, together, launched my family’s political dynasty more than a century ago,” Mr. Kennedy explained.
“But my sacrifice is nothing compared to the risk our founding fathers took when they signed the Declaration of Independence 247 years ago right over there,” Mr. Kennedy continued, pointing to Independence Hall.
“What really terrifies the elites, though, is not me. It is what I represent—a populist movement that defies the left-right division,” Mr. Kennedy continued, and his siblings were quick to respond.
In a statement posted on Twitter/X, Kerry Kennedy, Rory Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II, and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend claims that while their brother has the Kennedy name, he does not share the Kennedy “values, vision, or judgement.”
They further announced that RFK Jr’s announcement is “deeply saddening” for them and that they all “denounce his candidacy.”
Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment. Today's announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country. @roryekennedy @joekennedy @KKT_Kennedy pic.twitter.com/WJfGwSxN1z — Kerry Kennedy (@KerryKennedyRFK) October 9, 2023
Brutal.
There is somewhat expansive irony in the Kennedy siblings waxing about ‘values and judgement’ while endorsing Joe Biden, as social media made clear...
You appear to have been bought and paid for. — 0x146.gfy (@wasrichnowbroke) October 10, 2023
Having more choices in a “democracy” is “perilous”?— The LFB (@The_LFB) October 10, 2023
And read what you’re actually writing. You’re saying it’s “dangerous” for people to run in an election in a democracy? That sounds awfully authoritarian. — Samson Mow (@Excellion) October 10, 2023
Please. Your uncle would be called a far right nationalist by your party today.
You have no values today. — StewMama✈ Cari- Radically Moderate (@StewMama71) October 9, 2023
Family rarely agrees on all things. But denouncing your brother seems more self serving than anything else. — Therese (@usernom99) October 9, 2023
Family rarely agrees on all things. But denouncing your brother seems more self serving than anything else. — Therese (@usernom99) October 9, 2023
He seems like he might take more votes from the Republican candidate, no? — Ooojin 🇺🇦 (@Ooojin482) October 10, 2023
RFK Jr., RFK Sr., JFK, LBJ, RMN, RWR, your aunt Tillie, the next person who walks up the street, would all be A MILLION TIMES better than the shambling poseur who currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
I seriously doubt that...
RFK, Jr.: Climate Skeptics ‘Should Be at the Hague with All the Other War Criminals’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206882/posts
RFK, Jr. wants me jailed … as a war criminal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3211190/posts
RFK Jr.: Hog farmers bigger threat than Osama https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178592/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wants To Jail His Political Opponents https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206573/posts
Lessons in civility from RFK, Jr. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3509601/posts
Robert Kennedy Jr. Blames Reagan For 9/11 [for rolling back CAFE standards in 1986] https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855875/posts
RFK Jr. spreads blame for environmental woes in New Bedford speech https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913559/posts
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Blames Fairness Doctrine Abolishment for Conservatism Popularity https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2479527/posts
RFK, Jr: ‘We have so much to learn from Cuba’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3243628/posts
RFK Endorses AOC’s Green New Deal, Calls for Climate Taxation https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4187998/posts
Watch RFK, Jr. lose it at climate change march when confronted about his hypocrisy https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206578/posts
Andrea Mitchell Applauds RFK Jr.’s ‘Impassioned Plea’ for Obama to Stop Keystone Pipeline by Fiat https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3120692/posts
RFK Jr. Slams “Right-Wing Control of American Media” https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2967445/posts
RFK Jr: Right-Wing Controls American Media, Fox News Has Divided US to a Point not Seen Since Civil War https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2967311/posts
RFK jr: Sen. Inhofe is a “Call Girl” for Big Oil (But it’s OK to say it, he’s a Democrat after all) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2855976/posts
Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s ‘Green’ Company Scored $1.4 Billion Taxpayer Bailout https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2808401/posts
RFK Jr. Claims Air America Was More Popular Than Conservative Radio https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2740193/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Endorses Charlie Crist, Attacks Tea Party (Video) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2606809/posts
RFK, Jr. 15 months ago: Global warming means no snow or cold in DC https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2446226/posts
Robert Kennedy Jr.: right-wing hosts spread hate https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271218/posts
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: Innocent ACORN Defrauded by ACORN Workers https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109548/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: ‘There Is No Liberal Media’(video barf!) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021728/posts
Kennedy Calls Skeptical Politicians ‘Traitors’ and ‘Corporate Toadies’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1864440/posts
RFK Jr. Says AGW Skeptics Should Be Silenced https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864945/posts
Video: Stossel Takes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On For Traitor Remark https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864510/posts
RFK Jr. Calls Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck Lying ‘Flat Earthers’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863207/posts
RFK (Robberbaron F. Kennedy) Jr. vs. Mike Gallagher on Energy Independence https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033812/posts
The Incredible Shrinking Credibility of RFK, Jr. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1644744/posts
RFK Jr.: Bush, Barbour to Blame for Katrina https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473838/posts
RFK Jr: You know, my uncle was also shot amid a climate of right-wing hate https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2655920/posts
Flashback - Palin’s Big Oil infatuation [End of snow forever in DC] https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3387273/posts
RFK Jr says Donald Trump has ‘discredited the American experiment’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7903551/Robert-Kennedy-Jr-says-Donald-Trump-discredited-American-experiment.html
So the. Kennedy clan endorses RFK Jr. Now if we could only get a letter of opprobrium from the faculty of Harvard University.
RE: So the. Kennedy clan endorses RFK Jr.
This sentence is the OPPOSITE of what the article is reporting.
Back in the USSR.
More proof the democrat party is a cult.
They are all in on the grift, and got such jobs as they have through liberal, progressive, and DNC connections.
He has sort of snookered a lot of people on the right and center.
Once that aura fades, he will find his candidacy has about as much umph as Asa’s and Jeb’s.
About the only ones who will want him are the GOPelites.
Denouncing their own brother for having the temerity to run for office. How shameful!
Actually, Ted Kennedy was dangerous to America. I have no interest in anything that comes out of the mouth of anyone stupid and/or selfish enough to be a Democrat.
Abortions and lobotomies are Kennedy family values.
Impressive, but still better that Biden. No I would never vote for him, and he will never win running 3rd party, but still and forever, better than Biden
That's about as great an endorsement as you can get from this family.
Vehicular homicides, too.
All of today’s Kennedys are nuts...including RFK, Jr.
Thier father was against welfare, and for some of the programs to the Inner Cities that President Trump carried out. He was no liberal.
At this point, only a complete mental defective could endorse the pig-boy (Biden).
Thank you for the links. When I have time I’m going to read some of these.
I think the American people are going to want Trump or RFK Jr
over the regular Dem candidate Gavin Newsom.
Full disclosure:
I’m a Trump fan.
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