RFK Jr. has stated that on October 9th he is going to make a major policy announcement. This has many hoping that he will run as an Independent, and align himself with one of the minor parties in America. The only minor party that is on the ballot in all fifty states is the Libertarian Party.
RFK is not a libertarian. But his positions are congruent with many libertarian positions. To wit, he is opposed to manufactured wars, like the one the US is conducting against Russia. He opposes the huge graft paid out to the military-industrial complex. He opposed the covid lockdowns, and mandatory vaccinations for many types of jobs. He opposes corporate environmental pollution that assaults the health of the Individual, which is fully in line with the Libertarian Non-aggression Principle. He is also a lawyer who has battled against many of the corporate polluters, and factory farm corporations that make life hell for billions of animals. I happen to agree with his foreign policy positions on Israel, Iran, and the Ukraine, and his non-interventionist philosophy. He is fully aware of the devastating impact of inflation on the poor and middle classes in the U.S. He has visited the border and seen the absurd Biden inaction policy in action. All these factors combined would make me inclined to vote for him, instead of for Trump, or for an unknown libertarian candidate like the party ran in the last election who would have slim chance of winning…
And like Libertarians, he has come out strongly for Free-Market Capitalism, though I doubt he is a Rothbardian.
RFK is also unusual in a Democrat in that he is willing to engage in conversation and debate with non-Democrats, and those who probably are opposed to his Democrat programs. He has been interviewed twice by Dr. Ron Paul, as well as Tucker Carlson and many other non-Democrats. He is loath to get into personality-bashing, choosing rather to focus on differences in policy.
It is debatable whether he would draw more votes away from Biden or Trump if he ran, but political analyst Dick Morris, who once worked for Clinton and later for Trump, thinks that he would hurt Biden more than Trump. I hope he is right, as I would be happy with either Trump or RFK, but would give the edge to RFK because of his environmental stands and his opposition to bloated military-industrial welfare spending.
So we will wait with baited breath his October 9th announcement, and hopefully America will finally have a choice to radically change the way government operates in the US for the first time since Ron Paul ran for President in 2012.
And for the first time in history, the Libertarian Party will be putting forth a candidate who really has a chance to become President of the United States. And this would benefit not only the American People, but also the Libertarian Party, which is the only political party that reflects the Libertarian spirit of the American Revolution, as well as the desire of the average American to get government off his back and out of his life.
— Paul Grad, enviro-Libertarian.
Paul Grad for Governor 