Back in January, I received a phone call from a friend. He was connected to the RFK campaign and thought some of the things I was saying about the pro-life issue could be of help to “Bobby.”
Pro-abortion politicians aren’t usually eager to talk to me.
But this was different.
I learned quickly that RFK was no ordinary politician. He wasn’t simply interested in money or support. He was genuinely curious. He wanted fresh ideas on how to break the partisan stalemate on abortion.
I also learned that RFK was still very much attached to the faith of his childhood — albeit not in the same way as you and me. I was told that while he doesn’t regularly attend Mass (if at all), he still prays daily — including the rosary.
Several months after we began talking, he was interviewed by EWTN. In that interview he talked about growing up Catholic:
“We said the Rosary at least once a day, oftentimes three times a day, We prayed before and after every [meal]. We read the Bible every night. We read the lives of the saints. We went to church…It was our whole family, and it was really our whole community. It was part of me growing up.”
Over the course of several months, I had countless conversations with his team, including several calls with his family, and calls with RFK directly. We obviously disagreed on the question of whether abortion should remain legal. But he wanted to explore how we could reduce abortions — and more importantly — genuinely help women who feel coerced into having an abortion.
In a breakthrough moment (which the media ignored), while speaking to a group of supporters earlier this year, he said out loud what we did discuss and agreed on — it’s time we spend as much money on helping women who want to keep their child as we do on accessing abortion.
In the course of my conversations with his advisors, his family, and Bobby himself, we talked about prayer, faith, the Catholic principle of solidarity, Pope Francis, IVF, and many other topics.
On IVF, for example, one of his closest advisors suggested that the IVF controversy raging at time ignored the question of why IVF was perceived to be needed in the first place — namely, why our culture and our economy penalize getting married young, and discourage having children young. Further, why women are waiting until their mid to late 30’s to begin having children, after spending years being told to fill their bodies with chemicals — and then are shocked at their inability to conceive.
Why am I sharing this?
Yesterday RFK gave one of the most substantive and powerful speeches of this electoral cycle. It was powerful, because it was so different from what we typically hear from our political leaders. He called out those forces aligned against our children and our way of life. He spoke truth to power….
From Brian Burch on Catholic Vote
The RFK Jr. endorsement of Donald Trump is a game changer in this very close election campaign. In his press conference to suspend his campaign Kennedy said, “The Democratic Party has left the core values I grew up with.” He continues, “Democrats have dismantled democracy. Democracy is a slogan for the Democratic Party.”
His siblings publicly criticized him and said he “betrayed” his family’s values. What values of theirs did he betray?
They didn’t say.
Democrats try to keep you on the plantation. They don’t allow people to think for themselves. You have to think like they do. They are totalitarian communists.
Unfortunately, illegal immigration has transformed the USA for the worse irreparably. It’s all downhill from here. Unless we somehow deport about 20 million people who shouldn’t be here.
I knew he still kept the faith and would make a great leader for us.
Great leaders do not promote genocide. “Kennedy Wednesday said he opposed any government restrictions on abortions, ‘even if it’s full term.'”