Who's your alternate candidate? [View All]

[jmowreader]

Let's think the unthinkable: your perfect candidate, the one who will save America from Bush's dictatorship, doesn't make the general. He might run out of money, or take a small plane. Anyway, your guy doesn't make it to November.

Who's your fallback guy? If, say, Dean needs to drop out because of urgent family concerns, who will be the candidate to save America from Bush's dictatorship?

My fallback list:

My primary candidate is John Edwards. If you've followed the adventures of jmowreader and his alter ego OldSoldier, you know that he believes North Carolina Senator John Edwards has the fundraising ability, charisma and ability to go on the offensive when necessary (IOW, right up until the movers come to get Bush's shit out of Al Gore's house) to completely stomp AWOL Bush.

If Edwards takes a small plane, my first fallback is John Kerry. He's antiwar, he's got the bandwidth necessary to repair what Bush broke without needing to pull out his copy of "How to Keep your Country Alive: A Guide for the Compleat Idiot."

I'll take Dean next. Any of these four men would make an excellent president; Dean's advantage is that his last elective office was as governor. Governor seems to be the surest pathway to being elected president. Carter was a governor, Reagan was a governor and so was Clinton. I'm certain there are others--Martin Van Buren, both of the Roosevelts and Grover Cleveland were all Governors of New York. Personally, I'd prefer he be governor of a very large state--California or New York, maybe Pennsylvania--but a small-state governorship will do in a pinch.

Kucinich I will put last because of what the Repugs can do with the Cleveland default. If we're good, we can spin that to our advantage by pointing out that the wonderful responsible private enterprise who wanted to buy the Cleveland power company went into a snit and drove the city into default all by themselves. One other thing that can work against us: like it or not, looks count for something--and Dennis Kucinich is fuckin' ugly. He's Ron Fellows ugly. His mama had to tie a pork chop around his neck to get the dog to play with him. Kucinich is a very bright man with some excellent ideas--especially repealing the Enabling Acts--but his ugly mug is going to kill us.