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Mike Hampton's avatar

RFK, like Ramaswamy, supports Israel, and the Israeli lobby will support him. That's American politics and war. It's also, irrevocably, hand-in-hand with supporting a prison called Palestine.

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Jeano's avatar

Everybody here knows how bad and fascist and cruel the Israeli’s are, and everyone pretty much wants to stop them and stop AIPAC and the Congress from arming them to teeth and defending them at the UN but you can’t do all that by yelling at them or calling them names or applying the famous purity tests that so many lefties favor. You have to talk to them, negotiate with them, persuade them. If you’re in office and known as a Jew hater—because that’s what they’d call Bobby if he opposed Israel and AIPAC—he wouldn’t be able to get any of the Congress to back him in trying to cut off foreign aid to Israel. I imagine the Palestinian’s would much prefer to have an impure but effective President on their side than a pure-as-the-driven wimp.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

If an American can't get elected in America without support for and from the Israeli lobby, then its only participation in a fake democracy, and thus all candidacies are fake too.

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Jeano's avatar

Who cares if it’s all fake. It takes a fake to catch a fake. We love fakes. It’s still better than a doddering old war monger.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

As I said in my other comment, I hope for chaos.

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Jeano's avatar

I think we could have that if people wrote in. RFK’s name regardless of who the $NC puts on the ticket. I might at least cause a constitutional crisis which could be very good for us.

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MaryJane's avatar

weak argument

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