Belisarius for Kucinich [View All]

[eridani]

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If you're against the war in Iraq, against NAFTA, for universal health care, against the death penalty, for decriminalization, and so on, you can (1) not vote, and take whichever candidate your opponents choose; (2) vote for someone who's against everything you believe in; or (3) vote for someone who believes and has acted on exactly what you believe in. He has no chance to get the nomination? Maybe not, but he's changing what the presumptive nominee talks about. The only way to force the Democrats to be anything other than what they really are, which is Republicans, is to make it clear to them that they will lose again if they don't claim to agree with you. And people are doing that in surprisingly large numbers as the campaign goes on. Here's John Nichols in The Nation (which, in another bad sign of success recently passed William F. Buckley's National Review in circulation:)

Kucinich's 30 percent finish tied the strongest previous showing in any primary or caucus for a candidate stressing an anti-war message: Dean's 30 percent showing in Washington state.

As Dennis says:

It's time for America to resume its glorious journey: time to reject shrinking jobs and wages, disappearing savings and rights; time to reject the detour towards fear and greed. It's time to look out upon the world for friends, not enemies; time to counter the control of corporations over our politics, our economy, our resources, and mass media. It's time for those who have much to help those who have little, by maintaining a progressive tax structure. It's time to tell the world that we wish to be their partner in peace, not their leader in war. Most of all, it is time for America to again be the land where dreams come true, because the government is on the side of its people.