Reply #211: Well no great loss. [View All]

[NNadir]

It's not like the Kucinich/Nader crowd is going to put anyone over the top. I believe that the Kucinich folks will not vote Democratic in the next election in any case. Their raison d'etre is simply to make a big sulking noise and inform everyone of their self declared nobility. The last thing they would do would be to vote for a winner, because that would imply to taking responsibility for real events in the real world.

For the record, I don't think that Kucinich and Dean are philosophically in tune. If I thought that, I would be supporting someone other than Dean in the primaries. Kucinich has exactly one positive. He voted against the war. Other than that he's a turkey, something reflected in his poll numbers.

Now for some contrasts:

Kucinich supporters don't give a rats ass about women's issues. Dean supporters do.

Kucinich plays fast and loose with the insertion of his religion into politics. I don't even know what Dean's religion is.

Kucinich doesn't know how to balance a budget. Dean does.

Dean cares about practical governance. Kucinich doesn't.

Dean has been reelected 4 times to a high administrative office. Kucinich narrowly avoided recall in his first administrative office, was defeated in the next general election and his misadministration created the carreer of Voinovich, now Ohio's repuke Senator.

Dean has run a brilliant campaign. Kucinich is exactly where he was a year ago: Nowhere.

Kucinich spends most of his time these days talking about the "evils" of Dean. Dean spends most of his time talking about the evils of Bush.

There are many other differences, but I think I've wasted enough time on it...