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
Biden over RFK Jr.?
Never was the sharpest klan in the Appalachians.
Too much moonshine. Too much inbreedin’.
I give you the Kennedy family!
This isn’t why the family is denouncing him—they probably agree with all of this. Keep in mind, it was Caroline Kennedy who gave us Joe Biden as VP. When Caroline endorsed Obama over Hillary Clinton in 2008, Obama re-paid her by allowing her to pick his VP. Caroline picked Joe.
Anyone who would endorse the demented, corrupt, anti-American traitor, illegitimate Biden is worse than an idiot. The fact that these Kennedys would prefer Biden to anyone, much less RFK Jr., tells me they are in fact DemonRat enemies of America. In a similar manner to Trump, RFK Jr. is a threat to the elite establishment (Uniparty), the Swamp, the grifters, the political & other pigs at the money trough, so he is worthy of their hate.
Tucker Carlson had this to say about RFK Jr:
“[Bobby’s] not running to get rich. He’s trying to make things better, but he’s not allowed to have those conversations. He’s been censored. Notice, not there, not anywhere is a point-by-point rebuttal of his actual points. They never engage him on the facts. They can’t. They would lose. Instead, they impugn his character.” —Tucker Carlson
…and bumping into trees.
I remember KKT.
She’s an idiot.
They are totally plugged in to the Democrat Party machine. That machine delivers their cushy well paid jobs and various other goodies. There is simply no way they would ever go against the Democrat party establishment. None of this is surprising.
Because they are all diehard democrats.
Nope,not brutal at all. His candidacy is meant to hurt DJT and his siblings’ “condemnation” of him is all part of the charade.
“His candidacy is meant to hurt DJT “
I don’t know, but believe his candidacy will hurt Joe more than PDJT. RATs are in love with the name, “Kennedy”. And they’re so out of the loop that they’ll never hear that the rest of his family has dissed him.
I don’t really know whether RFKJ is ultimately friend or foe, but he is so very much more intelligent and accomplished than any of his flunky siblings that their passing judgment on him is laughable.
Ha! True.
That’s because they’re all, RFK Jr included, lifelong democrats. If you think RFK is anything but a ploy to steal votes from Trump, you are an idiot.
So there’s one sane Kennedy.
Thanks for pointing out the rhetorical device.
RFK, Sr., had a lot of kids. Four siblings denouncing RFK, Jr., is less than half.
They seem smart. Vote for the guy who won’t authorize protection for their brother like all the other candidates got.
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