Authored by Hank Vanderbeek via AmericanThinker.com,
Should RFK, Jr. run for President on the Democrat ticket or move to a third-party ticket like Teddy Roosevelt did?
Even as President Joe Biden leads in the 2024 primaries, Democrat presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has higher favorability and lower unfavorability numbers than either President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, (Trump 43%, Biden 41%, RFK, Jr. 14% unfavorability) according to a new poll by The Economist/YouGov.
Rasmussen reports that a survey also revealed that twenty-five percent (25%) of likely Democrat voters would vote for RFK Jr. in the 2023 primaries for President. Three percent (3%) of Democrats favor author Marianne Williamson in the primaries, while seven percent (7%) would vote for another candidate. The Rasmussen Report is based on a national survey of 998 U.S. likely voters conducted September 14 and 17-18, 2023.
Teddy Roosevelt ran for president in 1912 on the Progressive Party ticket, a third party, against incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft. Taft was elected president in 1908, the successor of Teddy Roosevelt, but was defeated for reelection in 1912 by Woodrow Wilson because Roosevelt’s third party split the Republican vote. The Republicans won in 1920 with a campaign positioned around opposition to Wilson’s policies with Warren G. Harding promising a “return to normalcy.” Sound familiar?
The Progressive Party was nicknamed the Bull Moose Party when Roosevelt boasted that he felt “strong as a bull moose” after losing the Republican nomination at the June 1912 convention in Chicago. RFK, Jr. is as strong as a bull moose both physically and mentally. RFK, Jr. is jacked and that is well documented. At 69, he is ripped like few others his age. He’d beat Putin in a Mr. Universe Senior contest. You won’t see RFK, Jr. tripping on stairs, falling off his bicycle at 5 mph, or saying I have to go to bed now during a news interview.
Don’t let spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary spasms in the larynx, cloud your judgement about RFK, Jr.’s mental acuity or toughness. He lived through the tragedy of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy and his dad’s assassinations, and has had an extraordinarily successful career as an environmental lawyer fighting for sane policies against the U.S. Department of Environment Protection and big business. His ideas on foreign policy, the economy, and other critical issues are clear, logical, and convincing.
His detractors want you to believe he is feeding Americans’ hunger for conspiracies. Americans have been fed conspiracies constantly by the extreme Left. The Left bombards us every day with “conspiracy theories” that is if you liken a conspiracy to a lie.
RFK, Jr. explained convincingly the circumstances and facts surrounding his uncle’s death in a recent speech at a private residence New Hampshire. Attend one of his campaign events to find out firsthand that JFK, Jr. is a straight shooter, extremely well versed, and perspicacious on a multitude of topics affecting Main Street America.
Can RFK, Jr. win the presidency on a third-party ticket? Who knows? At the very least a third party would in all likelihood obtain enough votes to allow a pro-Main Street America candidate like former President Donald J. Trump.
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I can not possibly vote for a democrat. I will no longer vote for republicans. If RFK wants to court my vote, he’s on the right path moving towards independence. Also, I listened to a Joe Rogan interview with Tulsi Gabbard the other day who said she has left the party of dums as well. May this be the start of something hopeful! There are a few R’s that would do well to distance themselves from tradition and start talking to the fleeing D’s.
Any idea Tulsi has flipped since this article October 17, 2022? That is less than a year it was written.
“The very real possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned terrifies me. I am sick of women’s bodies being used as pawns so politicians can score cheap political points at the expense of their freedom and safety. I am wholly committed to abortion remaining safe, legal and rare. We must commit to defending a woman’s right to choose.”
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2022/10/can-a-politician-successfully-re-flip-the-case-of-tulsi-gabbard.html
I’m assuming RFK, Jr. is “pro choice” and now Trump has come out of the closet what I’ve always thought he never left being “pro abortion”.
-Just Curious
She was also one of the freaks’ young leaders or whatever.
Good article Tex, I wasn’t aware…
NP , pastor. Perhaps Thomas Conrad Hoefling?
I’ll continue to very happily vote the constitution party!
A RFK/Tulsi ticket would be powerful. Sadly.
While I am not into murdering babies, there is something to that my body my choice thinking. I use it when people talk about getting the jab.
Pastor, didn’t the Mayor of Dallas recently switch from dem to rep? What does this do to his chance of winning reelection?
I honestly don’t know Patriot. Lately, it doesn’t mean much to be a republican in Texas…
Know what you mean, Pastor. Our republican governor called a special session of the legislature to enact a red flag law. It had no chance from the get go, but several laws designed to increase punishment for criminals who use firearms were proposed and will be looked at next session. My state representative and senator were both co-sponsors of bills to crack down on criminals. They even put forth a bill that would give the state the authority to recall a county elected District Attorney General. Memphrica recently got one Soros would be proud of.
He’s still a democrat whether he runs independently or not. He’s tell like he sees it and some of things he sees I don’t like. Banning fracking? All mortgages locked in at 3%? Eliminate all fossil fuels? I’m afraid he really doesn’t understand how free markets work and how the energy industry affects our economy.
They understand how free markets work, and work to manipulate the markets to their political ideology. In other words while they talk about free markets they don’t want them.
People say all kinds of things running up to an election, but when they get in the voting booth usually go with their traditional red or blue. The ones that don’t are called independents, but still they just switch back and forth between red and blue. All third party candidates do is turn winners into losers and losers into winners. And then only if the election is fair
Independent
He should quit, and all Americans should do the same. Participating in this scam is not the way out.
You speak as if voting still matters
RFK as a 3rd party candidate will only be used as an excuse for why Biden (or whomever) wins in ’24
On the one hand I would sorta want to vote for RFK Jr,or a third party, or RFK running for a 3rd party. On the other hand he has never ever been elected to any office so the permanent political machine will shut him down like they did Trump. He may have great plans but he’d need 100+ new faces in Congress to get anything done, would be a great failure without them.
Just finished reading RFK JRs book “The Real Anthony Fauchi.” It’s a gem. He shows, know one understands the medical tyranny going on like him. Anyone fighting the medical tyranny like him deserves our support.
RFK JR. IS A CRAZY LEFT-WINGER
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/09/rfk-jr-is-a-crazy-left-winger.php
RFK is still a liberal through and through and will continue to push liberal policies on the environment, labor and government control, etc. If he runs 3rd party, the dems will have a tough time stealing the election. They know this and will make sure he is not running 3rd party next year.
If Joey was smart, he would ask him to run as VP.
Ron Paul still out of camera angle I see, still away from the provided microphones I hear, Still not accepted for the things he has to do.
You will vote for who we propose and we will select the one we want.
Just vote harder, not smarter
Long live the only voice of what it be, Ron Paul. At least I ain’t heard any others. If a person never appreciated Ron Paul, fuck you!
Go ahead, ask me how much IDGAF. For all the positive sound bites, he’s still a gun grabbing commie-crat .
This country has suffered enough family dynasties. I could someday be interested in voting again, haven’t seen a candidate since Ron Paul, but I really don’t see us voting our way out of Jack shit!
Vote harder, maybe next time.
Peace, L.
“Taft was elected president in 1908 . . . but was defeated for reelection in 1912 by Woodrow Wilson because Roosevelt’s third party split the Republican vote.”
Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate purposely to get Wilson elected, so that he could help pass the Federal Reserve Act, among other things. (However, Roosevelt himself might not have realized that, but his handlers certainly knew that.) If RFK Jr runs as a third-party candidate next year it will, intentionally or unintentionally, help ensure a Trump victory. Not that TPTB need any help getting a Trump win. They have perfected election fraud (which was primitive in 1912) to an exact science. They can select whichever “winner” they want, which I am pretty sure is going to be Trump next year, but having RFK Jr run as a third-party candidate will make it easier to sell a Trump “win” to the sheeple, especially the Democrats.
RFK is a classical liberal. There is a lot of good there. Unfortunately he is also a climate doomer so disqualifying for me.
I wait eagerly to see what the DNC does with Jr.
Personally I’m eager for the Dems to revisit their cornerstones and become recognizable once again.