Kennedy’s message and his desire to set aside politics as usual (vicious) resonated with the audience. From Peter Barry Chowka at americanthinker.com:
NewsNation’s 90-minute town hall broadcast live from Chicago Wednesday with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was an intellectually stimulating and emotionally moving event. Despite the hour of mostly put-downs that preceded it (hosted by Chris Cuomo with featured guest Bill O’Reilly) and the half-hour of analysis that followed it (Chris Cuomo again with a panel that included former Wisconsin Republican governor Scott Walker, the most fair and objective), Kennedy more than met the challenging questions presented to him by town hall host Elizabeth Vargas and a number of pre-selected Democrat and independent voters in Chicago, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
By the end of the ninety minutes of town hall, I kept thinking of this statement attributed to Ronald Reagan: “The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor.”
I found myself agreeing with Kennedy at least 80% of the time.
Even when, near the end, Kennedy countered a particularly obnoxious and challenging gay voter from South Carolina who attempted to get him off stride and sandbag him with a snide accusation, Kennedy pledged his lifelong support of LGBT rights (which he described as “LGBQT”), I could sympathize with what Kennedy was trying to do: in essence, to reach out in the darkness. Too bad he wasn’t asked about his feelings about the current move to give special rights to transgender people, as in allowing them to participate in sporting events with people of the opposite sex.
The issues at hand were much larger and more significant, as the hour and a half provided Kennedy with time to expand on the points that he’s made in his half-dozen live interviews on FOX News since he declared for president two months ago. Thus far, to my knowledge, he has not been invited to appear on CNN or MSNBC.
The bad optics of the CPUSA (D) excluding RFK Jr. is going to be juicy.
Brandon can’t debate and the WWIII hour is getting late.
he is pro ‘affirmative action’ and would ban ‘assault weapons’. thanks for letting me know, Bobby. i will now ignore you.