Why RFK will vote Republican on November 3

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RFK goes nuclear on Democrats

Thank you very much.

So I'm so I'm 72 years old and for 70 years of my life I would have bet any amount of money that I would not be addressing a Republican convention.

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The irony of my presence here is inescapable.

I attended my first Democratic convention in 1960 when I was six years old and I attended most of the Democratic conventions after that, and I spoke as a keynote speaker in many of them. I grew up in a Democratic party of Franklin Roosevelt, of my uncle John Kennedy, of my father Robert Kennedy, and ours was a party.

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Ours was a party of strong principles, of clear policies, and an inspiring idealistic vision for America. My uncle ran on a platform of tax cuts, strong defense, and fighting communism. Does that sound familiar?

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Oh, the Democrats of that era stood with labor and working people and the American middle class. Nearly every cop and firefighter was a Democrat. Our party was a champion of the Bill of Rights and particularly for unbridled free speech. It was wary of centralized government power and corporate privilege and secret intelligence agencies. My uncle and father understood the connection between free markets and functional democracy.

They stood firmly against crony capitalism on the right and socialism on the left. They were all for competition, for meritocracy, and for excellence, which they thought should be a universal aspiration for Americans.

My father and uncles had served in World War II and they understood the difference between forever wars that they opposed and wars to protect our national security which they believed we should never hesitated to defend. My family

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My family played critical roles in building NIH and CDC into centers of gold standard science that transformed America into this relentless dynamo of international research. They promoted physical fitness and they protected women's sports.

My uncle Ted Kennedy wrote Title Nine, which because he wanted to make sure that women, real women, were able

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were able to have a safe and guaranteed spot in college sports.

And they stood with Israel as the full work of democracy

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and as a beacon for press and religious freedoms. A haven for oppress from oppression to gays and women and ethnic and religious minorities amidst a regional sea of intolerance, of misogyny, of child marriage, of human slavery, and of ethnic and religious genocide.

They saw Israel as America's most critical frontline ally in fighting the toxic ideology of Islamism,

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which by its own accounts is waging an existential war against our country and against western liberal democracies.

It's an ideology that has subjugated impoverished and tyrannized and tortured the people of Palestine and the people of Iran, and they openly promised to do the same to us. Democrats opposed government coercion, defended individual rights, believe that government should give Americans information, good information, and then let them trust them to make up their own minds.

Democrats and labor leaders fought fiercely in my generation to stop illegal immigration at the border.

During Covid, I watched the Democratic Party turned against every one of its essential values, its principles, and all of the policies that define my party.

Democrats turned away from gold standard research and blindly defended industry sponsored agenda driven science written by corrupt and captive regulatory agencies.

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And the Democrats, which were once the champions of the American Constitution, systematically obliterated the Bill of Rights. And particularly beginning with the first amendment, under the guise of combating misinformation, Democrats censored hundreds of scientists and physicians who questioned the government's dubious COVID pronouncements and orthodoxies.

37 hours after President Biden took the oath of office, he ordered Facebook and Instagram to remove my accounts in order to prevent public debate.

I'm not complaining about what happened to me, but it was a bad thing for our country. Democrats obliterated the second leg of the first amendment, the right to the guaranteed right of assembly by social distancing regulations that were completely un-science-based.

Democrats violated the third leg of the first amendment, the freedom to worship.

They closed every church in our country for a year. Who could imagine that would have ever happened?

And they kept open the liquor stores and the big box stores as essential businesses.

Democrats torpedoed the Seventh Amendment right to jury trial by giving liability shields to the giant pharmaceutical companies. No matter how negligent they were, no matter how reckless, no matter how toxic the ingredients, no matter how grievous your injury, you could not sue them.

Democrats violated the Fifth Amendment by shutting down three million businesses with no due process and no just compensation.

Democrats shut down the Fourth Amendment, protection from unlawful searches and seizures by forcing Americans to disclose their medical information before they could exercise their constitutional rights.

In a single year, my party obliterated 250 years of constitutional guarantees. The only bill of right that they left unscathed was the second amendment and probably only because there is a second amendment.

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And then the party of my body, my choice for citizens to wear masks and to submit to invasive and intrusive medical interventions against their own wills.

The party of me too. Remember that we were all supposed to listen to women and to believe women. They silenced the voices of tens of thousands of mothers who believe that their children had suffered vaccine injuries.

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The Democrats declared war on women's sports, effectively destroying Title Nine. The Democrats condemned meritocracy openly and celebrated mediocrity.

The Democratic Party became the party of elites, labeling working Americans as deplorables.

Democratic cultivated deep ties with big pharma, big tech, big a big food, big insurance, and the mainstream media. They embraced policies that divided Americans along racial lines. They abolished my uncle's physical fitness test because they said that competition was bad for children.

The Democrats abandon all of these values and all of their traditional values, offering Americans only one policy. The one policy that they stood for, the unbridled sociopathic and blind hatred of a single man, Donald J. Trump.

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And they were so confident that Trump hatred alone was sufficient to win elections that they abandoned accountability and made our government a predatory organism of monumental incompetence and corruption.

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The Democrats dismantled the public integrity safeguards and open the floodgates to thieves and fraudsters who flee the American medical regulatory agencies for a hundred billion dollars annually during every year of the Biden administration. They somehow they somehow lost 360,000 children and they turned our federal government into the biggest child trafficking operation in world history.

The Democratic Party in short lost its way. I mourn the fact that neither my father nor my uncle would recognize the Democratic party of today.

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It struck me this was no longer about left and right. It was about sane and insane.

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It was about common sense and communism.

In April 2023, I ran for president hoping to summons my party back to its bedrock values. But the Democratic Party had lost faith in American voters and utterly ironically lost faith in American democracy. They were convinced that they would lose the ballot box. that couldn't win. And so they unveiled a lawfare strategy to prevent an election from occurring. They sued every candidate who dared to run against Joe Biden and then attempted to remove us all from the ballot. A lot of you think that the lawfare was just against Donald Trump. It was mainly against him. But they sued Dean Phillips. They sued Maryanne Williamson. They sued Cornell West. They sued Donald Trump 50 times in 38 states to remove him from the ballot.

And they sued me in 12 states to remove me from ballots where I had legally qualified. And then --this is almost comical-- After I endorsed President Trump and I tried to remove myself from the ballot so that he could have my votes, they sued me to keep me on the ballot.

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I'm not joking.

Oh, here was the Democratic Party that in my youth, the biggest issue that we had that my father and my uncle fought for was voting rights and particularly in the southern states to guarantee that every American had a right to cast a ballot. And here's that same party 60 years later using all of its ingenuity and all of its power to make sure that Americans could not vote for the candidates that they wanted to vote for.

They excluded me from the debates. They cancelled the primaries.

The Democratic Party changed the rules to make sure I could not win and neither could the other people who were running as Democrats. No matter how many votes we got and for the first time in history, they cancelled their own convention.

No voter ever cast a primary ballot for Kamala Harris. No elected delegate was ever consulted.

The party of no kings simply anointed a queen,

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handpicked by secretive party elites and nobody even knows who they were.