February 12, 2024

OLD AND BUSTED: Recreate ’68!

The New Hotness? No, not that way! RFK, Jr.’s Super Bowl Campaign Ad Broke Democrats in a Big Way.

The ad is pinned to the top of Kennedy’s X account. He apologized to his outraged family members, though, which I was disappointed to see. But, it’s his family.

Some of his siblings and other family members have treated him very badly simply because they disagree with some of his political stances, especially his opinion on the COVID-19 vaccine. They are Biden supporters and that’s their right. However, airing their hard feelings against their brother is unseemly.

But some members of Kennedy’s family complained about his use of family images. Kennedy’s cousin, Bobby Shriver, the son of Kennedy’s aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver, wrote on X, “My cousin’s Super Bowl ad used our uncle’s faces- and my Mother’s. She would be appalled by his deadly health care views. Respect for science, vaccines, & health care equity were in her DNA. She strongly supported my health care work at @ONECampaign & @RED which he opposes.”

And Bobby Shriver’s brother, Mark Shriver, also commented, saying, “I agree with my brother @bobbyshriver simple as that.”

Someone whose initials are “RFK” is saying off-the-wall stuff during an election year? That’s never happened before:

By 1970, it would all fall apart of course. The same liberals who believed that they could simultaneously go to the moon, fight the Cold War, fight a hot war in Vietnam and Texas-size the New Deal with the Great Society would come crashing down to earth, and become obsessed with a whole host of reasons why the nation — and the planet — were royally screwed. Environmentalism, zero population growth, a so-called energy crisis and a whole plethora of other doubts were the symptoms of a self-created mental depression that once manic liberals found themselves wallowing in during the entire 1970s.

And while you can blame some of their self-doubts on the accumulated weight of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King being assassinated in 1968, followed by the election of their bete noire that November, Moe Lane spots a clip of Bobby Kennedy on the campaign trail that year that shows how quickly the rot had seeped in. Compare RFK’s rhetoric as he tells a classroom of young kids that they were doomed to spend their adult lives trapped in a Soylent Green-style eco-apocalypse, with the optimism of his brother, and it was clear that the end of the New Frontier was well in sight:

What would Bobby Kennedy think about today’s Occupy Wall Street? It depends on which period RFK you spoke with. Late period RFK — the man who told a group of college students in 1968 that America needed to “breed men who riot” — would love it. An earlier RFK would have wire-tapped its leaders.

Would RFK Sr. have had a similar stance on vaccines as his son had he lived beyond 1968? It’s impossible to speculate given the many strange and at times contradictory paths leftism has taken over the decades since his horrific assassination, but unlike the current members of the Kennedy clan, I believe it’s not beyond the realm of impossibility.

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll