NEWS
RFK Jr. plans to announce he will run as an independent on October 9 in Pennsylvania.
Kennedy’s campaign is now planning attack ads against the DNC in order to pave the way for his announcement.@dianafalzone scoopshttps://t.co/F3vuXNJf9a
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 29, 2023
The same people who told you Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. would never run as an independent are now telling you not to worry because no Democrats will vote for him.
They are wrong on both counts.
Uninformed people are sucked into lies and misinformation daily and as 2016 demonstrated
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) September 29, 2023
Any candidate backed by both Steve Bannon and Roger Stone has to be garbage.
In a surprise to exactly nobody, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is going to announce that he's running as an independent.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ZERO chance of winning.
A vote for him is a completely wasted… pic.twitter.com/9vICnmMU8u— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) September 29, 2023
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I drafted the post below last night, planning to run it over the weekend when people had more time to read. RFK Jr isn’t offering West a vice-presidential slot (from what I’ve seen, that’s Tulsi Gabbard’s role in the spoiler-thon). And West almost certainly wouldn’t run in a VP slot, because he’s already got the Green Party’s funding locked in. But we can count on every political grifter not currently incarcerated to make a jump for the gravy train over the next 13 months…
New Interview; I talked to the former Clinton staffer Peter Daou about his long journey to running the Cornel West campaign, his feelings about Trump and January 6th, and why he believes Democrats have been interfering in elections. https://t.co/za6PQ40DFx
— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) September 28, 2023
TL, DR: Peter Daou has always been a ‘strong believer‘ in whatever political campaign would pay him enough, but his unsavory habits — like ‘independently’ praising Bernie Sanders while he was negotiating for a job as Sanders’ press agent back in 2016 — have made it impossible for him to get a job with any self-respecting Democratic candidate. Since there’s already a ton of well-connected competitors on the Republican side of the aisle, Dauo is now (IMO) transitioning by serving for Green Party candidate / spoiler Cornel West (after jumping ship from the sinking SS Marianne Williamson). “Peter Daou’s Theory of Election Interference—by Democrats”:
Peter Daou, a former aide to Hillary Clinton, recently announced that he had become the campaign manager for Cornel West, the radical socialist professor and public intellectual, who is seeking the Presidential nomination from the Green Party. It was the culmination of a fascinating arc for Daou, who was a legendary figure in the early liberal blogosphere, where he became known for his criticisms of the Bush Administration before joining John Kerry’s 2004 Presidential campaign. Four years later, he ran Clinton’s digital operation, and became known as one of her most high-profile and vocal online supporters. Then, in 2016, for Clinton’s second Presidential run, Daou ran the platform Shareblue, a partisan news site that attacked mainstream coverage of the race and fanatically defended Clinton. By 2020, he had endorsed Bernie Sanders; he subsequently left the Democratic Party. (Before joining West’s campaign, he briefly ran Marianne Williamson’s.) Daou now says his career as a fanatical Democratic partisan was misguided, and that the entire political system needs to be uprooted; he believes West’s campaign is the best vehicle for such a change…
Friday Evening Bad Faith Open Thread: RFK Jr. And His Fellow Ratf*ckersPost + Comments (113)