Below is the Club's August 2024 newsletter, The Trunkline. Inside you will find a message from the Board, the candidates running for office, special interest pieces, and an application for Club membership. Please email lmtygopclub@gmail.com if you are interested in contributing to our newsletter.
Below is the Club's July 2024 newsletter, The Trunkline. Inside you will find a message from the Board, the candidates running for office, special interest pieces, and an application for Club membership. Please email lmtygopclub@gmail.com if you are interested in contributing to our newsletter.
Robert F. Kennedy is the biggest threat to our freedoms. The need to get Trump elected to the presidency is now more important than ever for preserving our liberty. The Republican Party needs to unite in support of our presidential candidate.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks during the Libertarian National Convention at the Washington Hilton in Washington, Friday, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
PHOENIX (AP) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has condemned the removal of Confederate statues, saying he had a “visceral reaction against” the destruction of monuments honoring southern leaders from the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee, the top Confederate general, had “extraordinary qualities of leadership” that deserve to be celebrated, Kennedy said Friday in an interview for the Timcast IRL, which is hosted by conservative podcaster Tim Pool.
“There were heroes in the Confederacy who didn’t have slaves,” Kennedy said in response to a question about the monuments. “And, you know, I just, I just have a visceral reaction to this destroying history. I don’t like it. I think we should celebrate who we are. And that, you know, we should celebrate the good qualities of everybody.”
Celebrating only people who were “completely virtuous” would mean erasing all of history, Kennedy said.
The comment is another controversial pronouncement from the former Democrat, who is waging an uphill battle to become the first person since George Washington to be elected president without a political party affiliation.
Kennedy, who is trying to stitch together a coalition of Americans disaffected with both major parties, has promoted himself as a fierce advocate for free speech who is willing to take controversial stands. Allies of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees, respectively, view Kennedy with trepidation and worry that Kennedy will earn enough support to tilt the election.
Activists have pushed for years to remove monuments and rename buildings that honor leaders of the Confederacy, calling them symbols of racism.
“We need to be able to be sophisticated enough to live with, you know, our ancestors who didn’t agree with us on everything and who did things that are now regarded as immoral or wrong, because they, you know, maybe they had other qualities,” Kennedy said.
Below is the Club's June 2024 newsletter, The Trunkline. Inside you will find a message from the Board, the candidates running for office, special interest pieces, and an application for Club membership. Please email lmtygopclub@gmail.com if you are interested in contributing to our newsletter.
