by Stephen Kruiser
I am trying to avoid as much of the DNC as possible until Thursday night, when we’ll be liveblogging until the final cackle from the anointee fades away.
There may be alcohol involved.
If calendar years had signature phrases, “Because why not?” would be a fitting one for 2024. We knew last fall that this was going to be a weird year, and it certainly hasn’t left us hanging, especially in the last five or so weeks.
Back in early April, I led off a Briefing by examining the potential for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be an X factor this election season. At the time, it looked like his presence in the race was a net positive for Donald Trump. Ever since THE DEBATE in June, Junior has gotten a bit lost in the overwhelming commotion.
Kennedy’s running mate Nicole Shanahan really spiced things up with some recent remarks, which Matt wrote about:
“So, you know, there’s two options that we’re looking at, and one is staying in, forming that new party, but we run the risk of a Kamala Harris and Walz presidency because we draw more votes from Trump,” she said. “Or we walk away right now and join forces with — with Donald Trump and explain to our base why we’re making this decision.”
That’s right, a scion of what has essentially been the royal family of the Democratic Party for the last 64 years is drawing more votes from the Republican candidate. Furthermore, he now so loathes the Democrats that he’s considering teaming up with the Republican in an effort to kneecap them.
At this point, 2024 is no longer merely weird; it’s blackout drunk.
Joe Biden isn’t the first prominent loyal Democrat to be groin-kicked by his own party this year. The hierarchy at the Democratic National Committee treated RFK Jr. like a carpetbagging interloper when he announced his candidacy. They froze him out of any opportunity to debate Biden. As my friend Stephen Green wrote earlier this month, had there been at least one debate between the two, the Dems would have realized then that Biden couldn’t be their nominee.
When Kennedy opted for an independent run, it was obvious that his break with the party was not pretty, which is how we got here.
After Shanahan’s little nugget became public, Trump told CNN that he’d be open to giving Kennedy a role in his administration. My friend Ed Morrissey wrote about this at HotAir and offered his thoughts on what a Trump-RFK Jr. Kumbaya moment could mean:
I predicted earlier that cutting a deal would be almost irresistible for Trump, but this one could have some real interesting effects. Eventually, of course, Trump hopes an alliance will pull RFK’s Trump-skeptical voters back to the GOP. But first off, it’s the kind of spectacular move that could help counter the effects of the Democrat switcheroo. It would be somewhat unprecedented, to my recollection, especially at this stage of the campaign. It also offers at least some credibility to Trump’s attempts to paint himself as a unifier, assuming he can pull this off.
Yes, everything about this is unprecedented.
While it is true that this is all just speculation at the moment, it’s not at all out of the realm of possibility. Trump wants to win, and Kennedy no doubt has some revenge on his mind.
Some of us are old enough to remember when CLASSICAL LIBERALS formed the majority of the, then, Democratic Party.
Not so anymore.
Today all classical liberals have been kicked out of the democrat party.
The Founders were influenced by the classical liberals of Europe and the Enlightenment.
The idea of classical liberalism is hundreds of years old and had been very successful in founding successful countries.
Today’s communist democrat party is based on an idea just over 100 years’ old and NEVER used to create even one successful government.
It has led to mass murders.
It has led to famines.
It has led to purges.
It has led to torture and imprisonment, even exile to Siberia.
It has led to slavery.
kamala is acting like her version of communism will somehow miraculously be successful instead of another dismal failure.
In that she parrots every previous commie leader since Mao.
And they’ve all been wrong.
Kennedy is a throwback, a classical liberal.
Naturally joe, then kamala refused to give him a forum on the debate stage.
Will Trump, nearly a classical liberal, unite with RFKjr?
There certainly is a place for someone like RFKjr in a Trump admin.
They shut Kennedy out because Obama want his puppet back. They wanted to continue hiding Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden’ total disability. But, he just HAD to debate, didn’t he? He NEVER accepted that he was totally incompetent and failed. The idea that HE made the decision to step down is utter bullshit.
Just keep Kennedy as far away from energy as you possibly can, he’s a green freak and not anywhere near in a good way.
What such an endorsement would gain Trump would not be a great as what it would deny the Democrats. As far as Kennedy is concerned, his Democrat party has vanished, been transformed into a socialist totalitarian party.
RFK Jr wants so called Climate Criminals treated as War Criminals