The Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hearings demonstrate that Democrats hate the heretics more than they do the heathen. Cults operate that way.
Hecklers, who wore surgical coverings Wednesday about as dated as Peter Criss Halloween masks were in 1985, disrupted the proceedings. Democratic Senators, the ilk that once hung pictures of the nominee’s father on their living room’s wall of martyrs, did their best Nurse Ratched directed toward the Health and Human Services nominee.
People beyond Billy Bibbit found the whole charade disgraceful.
Like Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and Tulsi Gabbard, Kennedy bucked progressivism on a sliver of issues. That, way more than rejecting it wholesale, causes the faithful to make martyrs of the doubters.
If the sight of Democrats bashing a Kennedy nominated to a cabinet position in a Republican administration signals we are not in 2006 anymore, then members of the dynastic clan choosing party over their own people shouts that this is not your parents’ Kennedys.
“I have known Bobby my whole life,” Caroline Kennedy wrote in a letter she shared in a video. “We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator.”
Anyone familiar with Peter Collier and David Horowitz’s The Kennedys grasps the depiction of a teenage Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as a sort of pied piper of chemicals to his family’s younger generation (who are now senior citizens or in some cases deceased). He certainly cut a menacing character in that book as a falconer. But the heroin addiction stopped prior to Madonna entering the Billboard Hot 100.
Does a statute of limitations exist in regard to Prince Hal’s behavior?
“Bobby continues to grandstand off my father’s assassination and that of his own father,” Caroline Kennedy claimed. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone who is willing to exploit their own painful family tragedies for publicity would be put in charge of America’s life and death situations.”
Were Donna Shalala, Xavier Bacerra, and Margaret Heckler really in charge of life-and-death situations? Or, did they merely preside over a massive government bureaucracy? If the latter, why highlight a septuagenarian’s teenage embarrassments following his father’s murder?
In the days of yore, Democrats, Republicans, and Kennedys operated in a three-party system. Joe Kennedy supported James Farley for president over Franklin Roosevelt in 1940. Robert Kennedy, who worked for Senator Joseph McCarthy, voted for Republican Dwight Eisenhower after Democrat Adlai Stevenson snubbed his brother in 1956. Ted Kennedy, who voted in just three of 16 elections prior to his initial U.S. Senate run — the three in which his older brother’s name appeared on a ballot — primaried President Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Kennedys rolled that way. But now Caroline Kennedy turns against not her party but her kin? This befuddles more than a Republican nominating a Kennedy to his cabinet.
A Communist murdered Robert Kennedy Jr.’s uncle. An immigrant outraged by U.S. policy in the Middle East murdered his father. Robert Kennedy Jr., faced a more passive-aggressive cadre of character assassins this week. They sought not to kill him but to unperson him. If they succeeded in that, then they failed by creating another martyr.
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