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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s choice of Nicole Shanahan as his running mate was a mistake

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Bob Greene : RFK Jr. named Nicole Shanahan , ex-wife of Google 's cofounder, as his running mate.

Greene: Anti-competitive ballot access laws make it prohibitively expensive for any independent candidate to challenge the duopoly without adding a sugar daddy (or mama) to the ticket.

Kennedy was following the example of 1980 Libertarian Party candidate Ed Clark , who funded his energetic campaign by putting David Koch on his jugate.

Greene says Kennedy may have mentioned Covid-19 once but never mentioned vaccines.

I suppose I’ll cast my futile and inutile vote this November for Kennedy , who responded to my localist maunderings with genuine insight. Trump has guts and a good veep, but anyone who assembles John Bolton , Mike Pompeo , and Nikki Haley as his America First foreign-policy team has blown his chance. Cheers to all— Chase Oliver , Jill Stein , Peter Sonski , Cornel West—who defy a two -party system that presided at the interment of the republic. I’m still opposed to premature burials..

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