I SEE A SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR RUPERT MURDOCH'S TRUMP PROBLEM

Poor Rupert Murdoch. His chosen Trump-slayer, Ron DeSantis, seems incapable of dealing the death blow. There are small signs of life in other GOP campaigns -- Tim Scott is at 11% in a Fox Business poll of Iowa, while Nikki Haley is at 14% (ahead of DeSantis) in a Fox Business survey of South Carolina. But Scott, Haley, DeSantis, and the few other semi-credible contenders are still way behind Trump.

Who can possibly challenge Trump for the top spot? Who can take votes away from him? A Media Matters story suggests that Fox News is this close to recognizing the answer:

Fox News is aggressively promoting anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential run in a transparent attempt to damage President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. And the network’s fixation on the gadfly Democrat’s bid is crowding out coverage of Donald Trump’s Republican primary challengers, stymying their hopes of garnering enough attention to defeat the twice-impeached, twice-indicted former president....

On Tuesday night, Fox prime-time host Sean Hannity ... will host Kennedy for a televised town hall....

Fox has hosted Kennedy at least 10 times on its weekday broadcasts since he announced his run on April 19.... That is more often than the network interviewed Republican candidates Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (9 interviews), former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (9), former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (8), or former Vice President Mike Pence (7) over the same period.

Likewise, Kennedy is referenced more frequently on the network than much of the GOP field. His name was mentioned on Fox at least 779 times from April 19 through July 20 — more than any GOP primary candidate other than Trump (4,702 mentions), DeSantis (2,484), and Scott (941)....

There's your solution, Rupert! GOP voters want a candidate they think we hate. They want a candidate they think we're trying to cancel. They want a candidate who talks incessantly about how he's being silenced. RFK Jr.'s the man!

According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, Kennedy has a 21% favorable rating and a 47% unfavorable ratingamong Democrats -- but among Republicans, Kennedy's favorable rating is 48% and his unfavorable rating is 22%.

So if you want to put up a serious challenger against Trump, persuade Kennedy to run as a Republican.br>
I'm serious about this. I know that the ultimate goal of dumping Trump is finding a Republican who can win the general election and then deliver everything plutocrats want. RFK Jr. probably wouldn't be that guy, on either count. But he might be the only candidate who can seriously take votes away from Trump, and the only candidate who seems to be even more hated by libs than Trump. (They're starting to see that we're laughing at DeSantis.) If he can't beat Trump, he can at least soften him up while DeSantis works on that campaign reboot.

C'mon, do it. Take Kennedy off our hands. We don't want him.