Reply #153: So, is it time for me to dig up the dirt on Kucinich? [View All]

[CWebster]

The suggestion of using racial divisiveness, the long history of virulent anti-choice voting and the sudden epiphany prior to declaring candidacy, the reactionary position on flag-burning, the obligatory mention that he was exempt from military service due to a heart murmur. If I bring any of this up, John Kleeb will roast me alive. But, I generally don't bring it up for a few reasons. One is I respect Kucinich. But as I mentioned in a previous post, in this country, at this time, he is unelectible (see NYPete's excellent post about our current state of affairs).For crying out loud, look at the adulation over a General, whose supporters you, ironically enough, find common cause with--while I, as a Leftist, despise all the Right-wing qualities they desperately cheer on as the best bet against Bush. So while you bang your head against the wall trying to figure out why Progressives would support a centrist, I can't understand why you would throw your vote away and possibly increase the liklihood of a real "right wing", as Ted Rall put it, DLC frontman take the advantage.

Now about the Palestinian thing. It was the one thing that caused me to withold support at first, but Dean came around and he took the heat for even mentioning a more even-handed approach. Lieberman, and Kerry, so-called liberal, grilled him over it repeatedly, and where the hell was Kucinich? Nary a peep. NOT ONE FUCKING WORD when he had the opportunity to do and say the right thing. And when one of those Israel cheerleading votes makes the rounds in congress, Dennis sits it out.