On a list of “rapid response” talking points posted publicly on Monday by the Republican National Committee following anti-vax freak Robert F Kennedy Jr’s launch of an independent campaign are some pretty standard stuff like how he “enthusiastically endorsed Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate, 2007 presidential, and 2016 presidential campaigns,” “called the NRA a ‘terror group,'” and “has repeatedly called for a ‘ban’ on ‘fossil fuel extraction,’ including fracking” and so on and so forth.

However it’s the last one, where they point out that Bobby Jr “called the 2000 presidential election stolen ‘under a cloud of dirty tricks’ and said Republicans ‘fix[ed]’ the 2004 presidential election,” that speak to a party up to its eyeballs in their own bullshit. We need not point out the extremely obvious here about a party acting like the aftermath of the 2020 election never happened, but we think this myopic batfuckery goes even deeper. While it’s true that Democrats in Congress raised formal objections to vote certifications after the 2000, 2004, and 2016 elections, none of the efforts were even remotely on the scale of or delayed the proceedings as much as the Republicans did on January 6, 2021, with many of them continuing to do so even after the Capitol was violently sacked by thousands of angry Trump fans. That Dems they had done so at all in those years became the go-to defense for the Republican objectors telling Americans that two wrongs make a right.

RFK Jr has never served in Congress and thus never objected to the outcome of any presidential election, all the RNC has here are his personal opinions in quotes. Yet so internalized is this “OH WELL YOU KNOW DEMS DID IT TOO!” dumbassery that they skip over that pretty relevant fact in a way that actually kind of even backfires. Like is pointing out that he doesn’t trust the “uniparty” to fairly run elections supposed to be a minus with the “fuck everything”-type voters they’re plainly worried might back Kennedy instead of Trump? Writing twice in this memo that Bobby Jr has said he’ll “take more votes” from the GOP nominee than Biden already makes the panic clear enough. The sloppiness with which they decided to include this stupid “election denier” dig make it even louder.

Also listing that he’s a “self-described ‘Kennedy Democrat.'” What the fuck, lol.