[lbo-talk] Dennis Kucinich

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Apr 1 19:26:22 PDT 2007


On Apr 1, 2007, at 10:14 PM, tfast wrote:


> Sure BUT. His program as articulated would be supported by most
> lefties so
> why not support anyone who is pushing that agenda. I agree that the
> putative left needs to go local as its only hope of rebuilding
> itself and
> having any popular purchase. But there also needs to be some
> coherency.
> Otherwise so many points of light and all that.

One of the reasons I voted for Nader twice is that I thought it might help build the Greens, or some third party movement. Nader himself has enormous credibility, even among the broad U.S. pop, so it looked like there was some potential there. But nothing came of it. Kucinich lacks even that promise - he has no credibility, no sex appeal, none of the sort of smiling optimism Americans love in their politicians. He doesn't have the organization, the discipline, nor the money to run a serious national campaign. He wants to create a Department of Peace, for heaven's sake - that's going to bring the campaign some support! So if by support you mean go out and work for the guy, it would seem like a waste of time. If you mean vote for him in a primary - sure, why not? But it'd be an empty gesture.

The campaign this time is so front-loaded - the money race is seriously on, and the nominations are likely to be decided by February. The only people who vote will have at most three names in their heads to choose from.

Doug



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