Elizabeth Vargas and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on stage at the NewsNation Town Hall, June 28, 2023. Photo courtesy NewsNation.
Posted on 06/30/2023 7:55:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
NewsNation's 90-minute town hall broadcast live from Chicago Wednesday with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was an intellectually stimulating and emotionally moving event. Despite the hour of mostly put-downs that preceded it (hosted by Chris Cuomo with featured guest Bill O'Reilly) and the half-hour of analysis that followed it (Chris Cuomo again with a panel that included former Wisconsin Republican governor Scott Walker, the most fair and objective), Kennedy more than met the challenging questions presented to him by town hall host Elizabeth Vargas and a number of pre-selected Democrat and independent voters in Chicago, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
By the end of the ninety minutes of town hall, I kept thinking of this statement attributed to Ronald Reagan: "The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor."
I found myself agreeing with Kennedy at least 80% of the time.
Even when, near the end, Kennedy countered a particularly obnoxious and challenging gay voter from South Carolina who attempted to get him off stride and sandbag him with a snide accusation, Kennedy pledged his lifelong support of LGBT rights (which he described as "LGBQT"), I could sympathize with what Kennedy was trying to do: in essence, to reach out in the darkness. Too bad he wasn't asked about his feelings about the current move to give special rights to transgender people, as in allowing them to participate in sporting events with people of the opposite sex.
The issues at hand were much larger and more significant, as the hour and a half provided Kennedy with time to expand on the points that he's made in his half-dozen live interviews on FOX News since he declared for president two months ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
He’s anti-2nd so eff him.
From News Nation Now:
SOURCE:
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would not pledge to support his party’s nominee, stood by his claims about vaccines and announced that “I want my party back” in his first national town hall presented by NewsNation on Wednesday.
“I’m running because I feel like my party has lost its way,” Kennedy told NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas.
Kennedy — an environmental lawyer and nephew of President John F. Kennedy — has positioned himself as a populist set on returning to the “exact values that would have been promoted by my father and uncle.”
Despite never holding elective office, Kennedy’s campaign has generated attention within the party. Among Democrats, Kennedy is polling at 15%, according to a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll. Still, Biden is well ahead at 62%.
In order to win the nomination, Kennedy will have to do something no primary challenger has done in modern U.S. history — unseat an incumbent president for their party’s nomination.
Right out of the gate, Kennedy declined to take the bait and attack his potential opponents.
Vargas asked Kennedy what he thought of Donald Trump after the former president praised him as a “common sense guy” in a recent interview.
The Democratic hopeful said he’s focused on unity, not division.
“I’m not going to attack other people personally,” he said. “What I’m trying to do in this race is bring people together.”
Kennedy had the same attitude toward the current president.
“You won’t hear me saying bad things about President Biden,” Kennedy said. “I’m not going to attack him as a man.”
Instead, Kennedy said he is focused on policy disagreements, such as his differing views on war, censorship and COVID lockdowns.
He has some interesting pro constitutional views. But the left wing loony in him shows through
what’s wrong with his voice??
RE: He’s anti-2nd so eff him.
Of course, if it boils down to Trump vs. RFK Jr, we choose Trump. But between RFK Jr. and Biden, I’d prefer the former.
RE: what’s wrong with his voice??
Robert Kennedy Jr. explained Wednesday how he came to have a raspy voice, noting a neurological disease in his 40s.
Kennedy said he suffers from a condition called spasmodic dysphonia, which causes the muscles that generate a person’s voice to go into periods of spasm.
Thank you. Explains that.
>But between RFK Jr. and Biden, I’d prefer the former.
They are both rats and I don’t vote in rat primaries.
RFK shot himself in the foot twice in the last 48 hours and has destroyed any chance R conservatives would support him.
*First he denounced the Aff Action decision
*Then he said he’s ban “assault weapons”
So long Bobby, it’s been good to know ye.
And pro-affirmative action.
I want him to win the nomination to show the left they don’t have to be utterly insane.
Not a completely bad guy. And it would be poetic justice to put him in after what they did to JFK and probably his dad.
But just yesterday he said he would sign an assault rifle ban (Yeah jargon nazis, I know) And he is also all in for the global warming cult. And I can only guess his positions of borders and faggotry. So nope, not even 80% gets me there. The 20% he is for are deal breakers.
But I am happy to watch him throw the DNC into turmoil and he would be better than Newsome.
Other than his anti gun stand he’d be a great Republican.
Still a kennedy so...........
He certainly handled himself well... and despite some loony leftist views, he left the ‘even further left’ stammering in his wake and that’s a good thing.
I think we’ve found our media darling for 2024.
it’s interesting that he chooses to avoid personal attacks ...
that way, when Biden’s crew/the Dem Machine do go after RFK - with their trademark personal attacks, that’s all they know - *they* will wind up looking like the a-holes
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