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WHO NEEDS A PLATFORM?

"Who needs a policy when you have Trump to hate?" – excerpt from Robert F. Kennedy's speech in Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. 23, 2024
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Former Democrat/Independent Presidential contender, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., succinctly summed up the Democrats and Kamala Harris-Tim Walz Presidential campaign platform in a single sentence.

When you've nothing of substance to discuss, and your current policies are a proven sham, what's left to tell the voters how great your administration is going to be?

You can either continue the big lie in hopes enough folks will fall for the con, or rave and rant how everything gone wrong is Donald Trump's fault.

Even though Trump hasn't been in office for nearly four years – the entire length of the Biden-Harris Administration.

Dems are in a quandary; nothing seems to be working to slow Trump. Perpetual investigations, two failed impeachments, efforts to keep him off several state ballots, indictments, trials and convections and an assassination attempt have all gone awry.

Trump keeps on going, like the Eveready Bunny, and it's driving Dems looney. Or loonier. To such an
extent "Trump Derangement Syndrome" was in full view during the Democrat National Convention, where Donald's name was mentioned over 140 times.

Considerably more than Kam and Tim's proposed plans and outlines. The DNC should have invited Trump to speak. He would have gladly shown up.

All the while, Trump is logging tens of thousands of air miles flying around the country, holding huge campaign rallies just about every week – sometimes two or more – visiting the southern border, defending himself in court, trying to run a business and maintain some kind of family life.

Does the guy ever slow down? Trump makes Biden look like he's moving at the speed of an 81-year-old sloth, while Kamala is still scratching her head, trying to figure out what in the world is going on?

As a result, is it any wonder Democrats are fixated on Trump? He's in their every thought, action and deed. The sun doesn't rise in the morning without Dem planners conjuring ways of tripping him up, filing another lawsuit, uncovering alleged misdeeds or just making his life a little more uncomfortable.

After eight years, these pathetic efforts are like water rolling off a duck's back; so common it's hardly noticeable.

However, liberal mainstream news outlets and daytime talk show hosts still get their jabs in because that's what they're expected to do. Knowing full well when the legend exceeds the story, go with the legend. By this time facts are irrelevant, and no one wants to hear them, anyway. Just make stuff up as they go.

Especially, when their candidate has little worth saying and listening to, and the other guy is saturated in fame and controversy.

Which was kind of the message Kennedy was relating about his current experiences with the Democrat Party.

Many readers may remember the Kennedy family are long time Democrats, producing U.S. Representatives, Senators and a President.

Robert Kennedy's father was a United States Attorney General. His uncle, John, was President. Both were assassinated.

During his Phoenix visit he told the audience –

"I began this journey as a Democrat, the party of my father, my uncle, the party which I pledged my own allegiance to long before I was old enough to vote.

"Back then the Democrats were champions of the constitution, of civil rights; the Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism and unjust wars. It was the party of democracy.

"As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with. It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag and big money.

"When it abandoned democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president, I left the party to run as an independent. In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it.

"The Democratic National Committee ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden. Then when a predictably horrible debate performance precipitated a palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election.

"I'm sorry to say that while Democracy may still be alive at the grassroots, it has become little more than a slogan for our political institutions, for our media, and for our government, and most sadly of all for me, the Democratic party.

"Instead of showing us her (Kamala Harris') substance and character, the DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity of Vice President Harris based on ... well, nothing. No policies. No interviews. No debates. Only smoke and mirrors. And balloons. And a highly produced Chicago circus."

Uncharacteristically, Kennedy endorsed Republican Donald Trump for President, rather than accept – for Party purposes – the bumbling Harris-Walz ticket.

Not really difficult to figure out why. As Kennedy remarked, Vice President Harris' popularity – like an old Jerry Seinfeld comedy show – is strictly a publicity stunt based on "nothing."

The sooner Democrats realize this the better off we'll all be.

Mike Bibb