reasons Dennis Kucinich is unelectable.... [View All]

[mike_c]

Here are some compelling reasons why a vote for Dennis Kucinich is a waste of time. Pick the one that means the most to you:

1) He's a woman. Americans have NEVER elected a woman president and although attitudes toward gender are changing, it is way too risky to offer a female candidate now. The stakes are just too high.

2) He's black. Americans have NEVER elected a black man president and although attitudes toward race are changing, it is simply too risky to push a black candidate forward now. The stakes are just too high.

3) He's too populist, and yet at the same time too smugly entrenched among the elite, living in an immense house, conspicuously enjoying benefits denied to average Americans because of his lucrative law practice and his investments. His voting record in the Senate is strongly at odds with his new found populism. Americans distrust populists who speak from the pinnacle of personal privilege-- it is simply too risky to tempt voter backlash against his impeccable grooming and fine living now. The stakes are just too high.

4) He's latino. Americans have NEVER elected a latino president and although attitudes toward cultural heritage are changing, it is simply too risky to push a latino candidate forward now, particularly when immigration and the former Attorney General are still such raw issues. The stakes are just too high.

5) He voted to authorize the war against Iraq and continued to express support for the war even after it became apparent that it was based on lies and had no coherent mission, becoming an active participant in one of the worst U.S. foreign policy blunders of all time. Although attitudes toward spectacular failures of judgment and leadership are changing, it is simply too risky to push a hawkish rubber stamp forward now. The stakes are just too high.

6) He worked to deny Americans bankruptcy protection from predatory and usurious lenders while allowing corporations and the wealthy to use bankruptcy as a weapon to break the backs of labor unions, pensioners, and small business people. Although attitudes toward corporate tools are changing, it is simply too risky to push a blatantly owned candidate forward now. The stakes are just too high.

7) He's up to his eyeballs in the "war on drugs" that has spawned injustice, vicious prosecution of victimless crimes, and social divisiveness for decades. Although attitudes toward puritan moral police are changing, it is simply too risky to push someone so deeply involved in the incarceration industry forward now. The stakes are just too high.

8) He's short and looks a bit elfin. Although American attitudes toward people under average height are changing, it is far too risky to offer a candidate who is not Reaganesque in stature. The stakes are just too high this time around.