RFK Jr campaign imploding

RFK Jr.'s SuperPAC blew $7 million on that controversial Super Bowl ad (I wasn't watching, but heard about it), only to piss off his own family. We probably should say "piss off his own family more," given that his years of antivaxxering have long ago pissed off large chunks of the Kennedy clan.

More Bob Jr. bad news. His campaign is leaking oil, in the form of staffers deserting a possibly sinking ship. The hilarious part is that this is blamed on two people. One of them is Bob Jr.'s daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy. Her presence as campaign manager is the focus of a Federal Election Commission investigation (that's separate from Democrats wanting the FEC to investigate possible improper coordination between campaign and Super PAC) as to whether she's being paid correctly related to her job position and other factors, or whether, as many suspect, this is simple nepotism. The other reason many are leaving is connected to one of Bob Jr.'s signature campaign positions, and that is that antivaxxer nutter Del Bigtree is his communications director.

(A) source described Fox Kennedy and Bigtree as “self-serving” operatives who were “making decisions based on their own personal advancement opportunities, and not acting in the best interest of the candidate.”...

“Del is running around spending money lavishly,” another source said. “He’s doing Zoom calls from the slopes with champagne while many people are volunteers and not getting paid.”

Fox Kennedy, meanwhile, “hired her nanny” Brigid Rasmussen as chief of staff, which was seen internally as a sign of incompetence for the director of a presidential campaign.

Rick, I am SHOCKED there is gambling going on here!

Besides the old but good punch line, it seems clear that, as outside analysts told Mediaite, in the top link in this subsection, that this is amateurish. Bobby his own self told one departing staffer, in response to a letter of hers with the airing of grievances, that he took the allegations seriously.

Finally, if any of these now-departed staffers joined his campaign in part over antivaxxer issues, I hope there's a silver lining of Bigtree's grifting disabusing them.

He does not. He wouldn't have hired either one of the pair in the first place if he did, and he's not cutting them loose now.

Oh, and hypocrisy alert? For all of Bob Jr's Trumpian-like bitching about the "deep state," it's funny as hell and hypocritical as fuck that his daughter-in-law is (there's no "ex" with them) a CIA officer.