Anonymous
04/05/2024 19:02
Subject: RFK Jr. Running as independent
I looked at his campaign webpage, and I can see how he can appeal to low-information Democrats and the disaffected. He has some very progressive economic policies. Many may overlook his troubling antivax views or even embrace it because it's anti-establishment/anti-mainstream.
Anonymous
04/05/2024 17:46
Subject: RFK Jr. Running as independent
Is RFK insane or crazy?
Anonymous
04/05/2024 16:30
Subject: Re:RFK Jr. Running as independent
Nails on a black board.
Anonymous
04/05/2024 11:12
Subject: RFK Jr. Running as independent
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When the alternative is the end of the republic, then yes, you are showing your entitlement.
It was established upthread that this scare-mongering is simply not believable. If Dems were truly afraid that there was an existential threat to our republic, they would not have spent the first two years of the Biden administration trying (and failing) to pass the BBBA. Instead it was business as usual—trying to throw a legislative bone to the progressives.
You mean… doing what your constituents want? Why is that bad thing? Republicans come in and do what only they want and damn the consequences, but when Democrats try to reward their voters, not to take their voters for granted, that’s supposed to be a bad thing somehow? Nah.
But you’re getting pretty far off topic from the GOP spoiler candidate who is supposed to be the point of this thread. Probably because most people can remember Nader, Nader, Sanders/Stein and we can all see the damage that “purity” wrought and the spoiler game doesn’t work like it used to.
Operating in a business as usual manner undermines the “hair-on-fire, the republic is at risk” sensationalism. That’s it.
Anonymous
04/05/2024 10:47
Subject: RFK Jr. Running as independent
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When the alternative is the end of the republic, then yes, you are showing your entitlement.
It was established upthread that this scare-mongering is simply not believable. If Dems were truly afraid that there was an existential threat to our republic, they would not have spent the first two years of the Biden administration trying (and failing) to pass the BBBA. Instead it was business as usual—trying to throw a legislative bone to the progressives.
You mean… doing what your constituents want? Why is that bad thing? Republicans come in and do what only they want and damn the consequences, but when Democrats try to reward their voters, not to take their voters for granted, that’s supposed to be a bad thing somehow? Nah.
But you’re getting pretty far off topic from the GOP spoiler candidate who is supposed to be the point of this thread. Probably because most people can remember Nader, Nader, Sanders/Stein and we can all see the damage that “purity” wrought and the spoiler game doesn’t work like it used to.
Anonymous
04/05/2024 10:38
Subject: RFK Jr. Running as independent
Anonymous wrote:When the alternative is the end of the republic, then yes, you are showing your entitlement.
It was established upthread that this scare-mongering is simply not believable. If Dems were truly afraid that there was an existential threat to our republic, they would not have spent the first two years of the Biden administration trying (and failing) to pass the BBBA. Instead it was business as usual—trying to throw a legislative bone to the progressives.
Anonymous
04/05/2024 08:59
Subject: RFK Jr. Running as independent
When the alternative is the end of the republic, then yes, you are showing your entitlement.
Anonymous
04/04/2024 20:34
Subject: Re:RFK Jr. Running as independent
+1 He has to run a shadow-funded independent campaign because no political party would select him as their nominee. He has no base of support. He polls delusional kooks now but they aren’t really supporting him, they are just being contrarian and picking whomever you suggest as an alternative to Biden and Trump.
Anonymous
Anonymous
04/04/2024 05:53
Subject: RFK Jr. Running as independent
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Per Dan Rather:
Trump's top PAC funder is also RFK, Jr's top PAC funder.
Because he’s there to spoil.
The Democrats have a nasty history of deliberating funding far MAGA candidates in the primaries order to make it easier for the Dems to win on election day. So they have no moral ground for complaining.
Will probably be voting for Kennedy come this November. I live in Maryland so any vote for anyone other than Biden is a wasted vote. Might as well give it to Kennedy. I like him even if I think he's a bit crazy, but he calls out the Democrats in ways they need to be called out and hopefully the next generation of Democratic leaders will get the message and not turn themselves into the destroyers of democracy in the name of saving it.
I have never heard that. Do you have any reputable articles to link?
Have you been living under a rock? This is well known…
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1135878576/the-democrats-strategy-of-boosting-far-right-candidates-seems-to-have-worked
Your lack of self awareness is astonishing.