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Thread ID: 11848 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2004-01-11
2004-01-11 20:41 | User Profile
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The only reason the little troll is running for president is because (by his own admission) he is a failed congressman. This whole "campaign" is nothing more than a public relations pitch to enhance his name among the politically powerful. His modus operandi is obvious; focus on and attract those people who are so far out in left field (beyond the foul poll) so as to offer a corner of the political market to whichever democrat gets the nomination. Thankfully, in his desperate attempt to enhance his name nationally, he has diminished it locally and after the November 2004 congressional election his political career will have finally come to an end.
2004-01-11 21:34 | User Profile
AND he ran Cleveland into the ground when he was mayor.:twisted:
Protest candidates should never, ever win an election, and Dennis the Menace won't - this time. (But it's too late for Cleveland.)
2004-01-11 22:34 | User Profile
[QUOTE=KUCINICHCOM][url]WWW.KUCINICH.COM[/url]
The only reason the little troll is running for president .....[/QUOTE]
How do you know? He's got my vote. Are you a jew?
2004-01-12 05:45 | User Profile
Kucinich is ulta-PC on domestic issues (other than his previous opposition to abortion, which he's whimped out on, now that's running for President), which arguably doesn't matter as much as it might seem, as the PC crowd always gets their way on domestic issues irrespective of whether Democrats or Republicans win any given election. On foreign policy issues, he's actually a pretty decent fellow. He supports immediate, unilateral withdrawl from the Iraqi debacle, creation of a Palestinian state and a hard-line with Israel (reducing their foreign aid package) if they won't play ball, getting out of the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement, and he opposes the Free Trade Area of the Americas. He supports negotiations with North Korea and generally holds a diametrically opposite view from the neo-"conservatives" on each and every foreign policy issue of the day. If it were between Bush and Kucinich, I'd vote for Kucinich in a heartbeat (unlike such Democratic stooges as Lieberman, Clark, Kerry and Edwards, who would leave me in a position of having to shop for 3rd party candidates). But then, I happen hold the position that it would be good for all concerned if Bush lost this year, so as to make the Republican Party more amenable to nominating an actual conservative ticket in 2008. Some may feel a Democratic Presidency is a price not worth paying for such an unlikely occurence as a conservative revival within the GOP (or perhaps even the emergence of a serious, right-wing 3rd party movement) but I do, especially if it means an end to the Iraq war, as would definitely be the case were Kucinich to win and might well be the case were Dean to win (which is why I plan to vote for Dean in both the primary and general elections). I briefly supported Kucinich, but shifted to Dean when it became apparent that A) Kucinich was definitely not going to be the nominee and B) Dean probably was. I switched my registration from Republican to Democrat the week we invaded Iraq....
2004-01-20 22:07 | User Profile
He don't seem ALL bad.
Cleveland was known as The Mistake On The Lake before he came along.