Reply #26: You act like this is somehow a surprise. [View All]

[MadHound]

The media marginalization, the fact that his own party doesn't want him, and that he doesn't have much of a chance to win. These aren't surprises, these were givens going into this race, and therefore they don't change my mind one iota. I will be voting for Kucinich.

Perhaps you don't understand, Kucinich, and a handful of others that aren't running for President, are the only reasons why I'm hanging with the Democratic party. For the most part I consider the party little more than a corporate sellout whose positions really aren't that much different than those of the 'Pugs, excepting on one or two more issues. When I've voted for Dems over the past thirty years(thirty years? wow!) it hasn't been because I'm voting for somebody or for the party. I've voted Dem merely to slow down the speed with which this country is approaching the cliff edge, that is all. I can count the number of presidential candidates that I've actually voted for, and agreed with on their positions and actions, on the fingers of my left hand, with a few fingers left over. The rest has merely been an ongoing case of "voting for the lesser of two evils".

So yes, I will continue to vote and support Dennis, he is the best that this party has in my opinion. Sadly, as you say, he'll go down to defeat and the party will cough up another corporately compromised candidate. Depending on who it is, I will either continue "voting for the lesser of two evils." But my desire for real change in this country, and my ever growing reluctance to continue to enable this two party/same corporate master system of government may very well lead me to voting Green. It depends on who the Dem nominee is, and frankly what Kucinich decides to do. If he goes Green, then I'm going with him. If Hillary gets the nomination, I'm going Green. Other than that, it's wide open and I'll have to look at the nominee, and the platform very carefully before I make up my mind.