Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Photo courtesy of Team Kennedy.
Originally posted May 11, 2023.
In The American Spectator, Paul Kengor explains how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., like his father before him, opposes the left-wing fanaticism that currently guides the Democrat Party.
They are “in love with death.”
So said Bobby Kennedy before his tragic assassination in June 1968: “What my father said about businessmen applies to liberals. They’re sons of bitches … in love with death.”
That eye-opening RFK quotation has been reported a handful of times in various RFK biographies. The biographers, mostly liberals themselves, have failed to elaborate on what exactly RFK meant (and they usually keep the businessmen part of the quote and drop the part on liberals). Nonetheless, the quote conveys the reality that RFK was, at best, highly conflicted about the liberals in his party. Culturally and morally, he was a conservative. He was intensely opposed to abortion, feminism, and homosexual rights. On abortion, his party has plainly become the Party of Death. Had RFK lived to see Roe v. Wade and its subsequent 63 million abortions, the devout Roman Catholic would have been aghast.
Those who knew him well said that Bobby Kennedy was more like a monk than a politician. Pensive and prayerful, he might have been better suited to monastic life. But instead, he went into politics, setting aside priestly celibacy for marriage to his wife Ethel. The couple gave the gift of life to 11 children, the last of whom (Rory) was in his wife’s womb as she held RFK’s hand while he was dying on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles the night of June 5, 1968.
Among those kids was Bobby and Ethel’s third: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And this younger RFK reminds me of his father, especially in his admirable independence and willingness to buck the party line and be his own man. Like his dad, he stands against the nuts in the liberal wing of his party.
It is that tendency that prompted RFK Jr. to buck the entirety of his party’s advocacy of vaccine mandates — that is, the mandatory mRNA shots forced upon Americans at threat of losing their jobs, being denied admission to colleges, being kicked out of the military, and more. Our health and constitutional religious or conscience objections be damned. For this purported crime against humanity, when you google “RFK Jr.,” a nasty little box pops up on your screen that smears him with this:
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. is an American environmental lawyer and author known for promoting anti-vaccine propaganda and health-related conspiracy theories.
Hah, propagandist and conspiracy theorist! And for what? For opposing the coerced vaccination of teens at no risk of death from COVID but at risk of myocarditis from mRNA shots? RFK Jr. realized the absurdity of that mass policy and the psychosis of groupthink by Joe Biden and the Democrats. Talk about being in love with death.
But this Kennedy, like his old man, hasn’t stopped fighting. And now, he has bucked the party line again by announcing his run for president.
In so doing, RFK Jr. continues to oppose left-wing fanaticism. Over the weekend, he came out against the ongoing surreal spectacle of 6-foot-3, 200-pound dudes trouncing girls in swim meets while “identifying” as gals. “I am against people participating in women’s sports who are biologically male,” Kennedy told a stunned CNN reporter. “I think women … have worked too hard to develop women’s sports over the past 30 years. I watched it happen, and I don’t think that’s fair.”
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