Reply #27: His positions have nothing whatsoever to do with his failures [View All]

[robcon]

His naivete (Dept of Peace - read the proposal on his web site) among other things make a lot of people, including me, believe Kucinich would be an awful president.

People do not care as much for issues/positions/message as they care for character and "trust" in a president. I would summarize the problem with Kucinich is trust: a lot of people think he doesn't have the smarts, management ability and grounding in the world that is needed for a good president who faces at least one, and sometimes several, important, unknown and unpredictable events every month of every year he/she's in office. DK is naive to the point of dangerous, as his Dept of Peace proposal shows. He's a "the good is the enemy of the perfect" type, as his voting record shows.

It's not his positions - his abandonment of his long-held anti-abortion stance in 2004 has become much less of an issue this year. It's whether people can make a connection to DK, and see him as president. I can't, and I think a lot of other people (99% of Democrats according to the polls) won't vote for him, even though his positions on issues are fairly popular.