It’s because Ronnie comes off a hell of a lot better than Bobby does.
RFK and Ronald Reagan died 36 years apart; one on 6/6/68, the other 6/5/04. Here’s their debate with each other: http://t.co/eXGEUGA93z
— Russell Moore (@drmoore) June 6, 2015
More on that evening here. As far as I know, that British kid (apparently named Jeff Jordan) ended up doing nothing of particular note with his life. Which is, in its way, a shame: if Jordan had then we might have had footage of the look on the guy’s face when he realized that, dear God, but THAT MAN really did kill Soviet Communism deader than disco and made it look easy in the process.
> Truthfully, this was not a debate between Ronald Reagan and Bobby Kennedy
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Boy, ain’t that the truth. Maybe the biggest surprise is that the leftist self entitled righteous indignation stunk as much back then as it does now.
I’d say what’s surprising is that it sounds exactly the same back then as it does now. It’s old, it’s tired, it’s boring, and (most importantly) it’s wrong.
And Democrats today, like RFK are for the most part agreeing with it, or at least not outright challenging it.
Reagan came off a lot better, and RFK knew it – he had the recording suppressed after Reagan’s team requested clips of it.