The Journal
American voters have a predilection for electing serial philanderers as their President. Warren G. Harding fathered illegitimate children. FDR had a several affairs despite having polio. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”, indeed. Eisenhower fooled around with his female driver in the UK during the war. JFK’s sexual exploits are common knowledge, as are LBJ’s thus proving that you don’t have to be good-looking to attract babes if you are rich and powerful. No one really believed Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky”. Then Donnie took the cake when his victims Stormy Daniels and E Jean Carroll actually described their encounters with him under oath in court.
Despite all that, these guys all got elected.
Will the US Senate be more puritanical than the voting public when RFK, Jr. comes up for conformation as HHS Secretary? He has admitted to past drug addiction. It wasn’t that long ago that Bill Clinton attempted to dampen the furor over his marijuana smoking while at Oxford with “But I didn’t inhale”. JFK, Jr was into heroin, but that’s apparently OK in 2024.
He also admitted to being possessed by “lust demons”. He kept a journal of his sexual exploits with names and ratings from 1 to 10. A 10 meant going all the way, to use the nomenclature of Middle School boys. The journal, published by the New York Post (while he was still a Democrat or it never would have seen the light of day in that Rupert Murdoch-owned paper) claim affairs with 37 women while married to his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy. She reportedly became aware of the journal at some point and, in the midst of the divorce, died by suicide. Her suicide might also have been prompted by RFK, Jr’s claim that a brain worm had left him cognitively deficient, thus crippling his ability to earn money and therefore pay alimony. What a classy guy.
But that was then, this is now. Surely the mature 2024 RFK, Jr. is a paragon of virtue. Or maybe not. RFK, Jr carried on a nine-month sexting relationship this year with a female journalist who published the results. Then three more women came forward in October claiming romantic involvement with Kennedy, whom they knew through the Children’s Health Defense, an advocacy group he founded. That journal is filling up again. Way to go, Bobby, Junior!
Donnie sure can pick ‘em. Let’s hope that the Senate has higher morals than he (or Bobby, Junior) do.
By Ed Dufton