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When I first heard that Kennedy was running for president, I was hoping it was John Kennedy, that is, John Neely Kennedy, the sharp-tongued senator from Louisiana who has skewered the Left with his acid wit on the Senate floor more than once. But alas, JNK’s hat isn’t in the ring.
The new presidential candidate on the scene today is RFK, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy. RFK Jr.’s candidacy has a chance to be just as refreshing as if the senator from Louisiana were actually running, for the scion of the famous family is no doctrinaire Leftist. That’s not to say he is a conservative, either. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is his own man. That’s what makes him so intriguing.
RFK Jr. is, of course, a Democrat. He and Marianne Williamson are so far the only challengers Old Joe Biden is facing for the 2024 nomination. While RFK will get some attention on the basis of his name only, he faces an uphill battle against an incumbent that few people like but that no one has been able to figure out how to replace. Kennedy will be palatable to few Democrats because of his resolute stance against not just the COVID-19 vaccine, but vaccines in general.
“By inserting himself into the vaccine debate,” Town & Country wrote in a lengthy 2021 profile of the man, “Kennedy has lost friendships, business opportunities, and influence within the Democratic Party.” Even his own family has denounced him: his sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who has served as chair of the Global Virus Network, his brother Joseph P. Kennedy II, and his niece Maeve Kennedy McKean wrote an article in Politico in May 2019 entitled: “RFK Jr. Is Our Brother and Uncle. He’s Tragically Wrong About Vaccines.”
Maybe he is. But 2019 is not 2023. The suspicions that RFK Jr. had at that time about the COVID vaccine have by now been abundantly borne out. Most people would have dismissed his warnings about other vaccines out of hand before the COVID hysteria, but now, after we have seen the perfidy and dishonesty of Big Pharma, RFK doesn’t look so nutty.
In his own defense, meanwhile, Kennedy invokes his own family history, recounting his famous father, who was the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 before he was cut down by an assassin’s bullet:
My dad, when he came out against Vietnam, had everybody against him. The New York Times, all the labor unions—he ran against Johnson, he had every friend basically abandon him when he ran against the president in his own party.
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