Breaking: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Reportedly About to Announce Run as an Independent Third-Party Candidate

The Democrat Party is treating him badly so he's donezo.

The rudest and most obnoxious partisans should keep this sort of thing in mind. You're not helping "the cause" if people decide they hate your guts and prefer the party to lose so that you will lose too.

He may run as a Libertarian, which would be final confirmation that the Libertarian Party is just a party of social libertarians.

Robert F Kennedy Jr, who launched his campaign for the Democrat presidential nomination in April, reportedly has plans to announce a run as an independent candidate.

According to Mediaite, Kennedy plans to make the announcement on October 9 in Philadelphia, with a text message viewed by the outlet stating that his campaign is planning "attack ads" against the Democrat National Committee to "pave the way" for his announcement.

"Bobby feels that the DNC is changing the rules to exclude his candidacy so an independent run is the only way to go," a Kennedy campaign insider told the outlet.

On Saturday, the New York Times published a piece stating that Kennedy met with Libertarian Party chair Angela McArdle in July, at a Memphis conference.

"He emphasized that he was committed to running as a Democrat but said that he considered himself very libertarian," McArdle said, adding that "We're aligned on a lot of issues," including the threat of the "deep state."

"My perspective is that we are going to stay in touch in case he does decide to run," Ms. McArdle said. "And he can contact me at any time if that's the case."

Update: A friend tells me he draws more of his support from Republicans than Democrats, so this isn't actually good news.

Thanks to JackStraw.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:49 PM

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