[GreyFriar]

An interesting article about Robert Kennedy and how he would not find a home in today's Democrat Party

[GreyFriar]

Political history ping.

[originalbuckeye]

I have said for years, if JFK were alive today WITH THE SAME BELIEFS, he would have to be a Republican. The Dem Party has gone so far Left, they have nearly fallen off the Left side of the earth!

[gspurlock]

No mention of RFK’s conflicts with the CIA? Given it’s apparent treachery regarding Trump’s election, one would think that RFK’s conflicts with the CIA would draw a little more attention.

[Rummyfan]

Liberal? Conservative? Neither. He was an opportunist. He worked for Senator McCarthy when it was the popular thing to do - I believe McCarthy was godfather to one of his children. When McCarthy fell out of favor, he dropped that association like a hot rock. Fervently anti-Communist? But he had a hand in withdrawing support for the Bay of Pigs invasion. Civil rights? As AG, his DoJ wiretapped MLK. And then there’s the whole Marilyn Monroe thing....

[chajin]

An interesting article about Robert Kennedy and how he would not find a home in today's Democrat Party

RFK was essentially a charismatic HHH. I was 14 and hated Kennedy, because he had stolen the nomination from my hero, Eugene McCarthy. (Yes, I was young and stupid. Like David Horowitz, I had my epiphany and left the Left.) Anyone living at the time knew that Nixon vs. RFK would have been a reprise of the 1960 election, with RFK winning in a walk. If HHH had been more politically savvy, he would have put Ted on the ticket for VP and let Ted bring in the left while Humphrey brought in the working class, and he would have won--and Ted wouldn't have been driving that car in Chappaquiddick, which would have let him run for President in '76 instead of the peanut farmer. Reagan would have still become president, either in 76 or 80, but without having to go through Gerald Ford to get there.

[GoldenPup]

On the Politics and Fate of RFK

Does any rational, thinking adult really, really, really give a sh!t...after 50 years?

[CoastWatcher]

Ronald Reagan told the public that he did not leave the Democratic Party; the party left him.

JFK, RFK are so much closer to Trump than Pelosi & Co. that there is a large ‘No man’s land’ between them.

[minnesota_bound]

Sirhan Sirhan should be released as he has done his time... just like the guy who shot Reagan and the democrats released him : )

I know it will never happen. The dems will release 10’s of thousands of other criminals to vote for them but not Sirhan Sirhan as they have to keep Camelot and the martyr story going about RFK.

[DesertRhino]

MK Ultra. The CIA did not want RFK to become president and to begin to dig deeply into the murder of his brother.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I thought this thread would be about what to do with an empty stadium.

[Intolerant in NJ]

For starters, RFK, like JFK, like the family patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy, was an ardent anti-communist, which immediately put him at odds with leftists in the party...forget anti-communist - according to Howie Carr's "Kennedy Babylon", RFK was a lifelong homophobe - that alone would have had him banished to rightwing land.....