Reply #37: This analysis is inept

[TomClash]

Kucinich lost because his positions, especially on the War, are not supported by a majority of the American people. His marriage status had little to do with it.

Iraq is not Vietnam. And Vietnam was not stopped by the will of the people - and even if it was they did not vote for McGovern or any other antiwar candidate - Nixon won in 68 and 72 with his policy of Vietnamization, or phased withdrawal, which lost the War.

You call Iraq a war crime and it will effectively be spun as an attack on the soldiers - no thanks, I'm not going down that road -it's the death of any candidate. I don't want to waste time and resources defending that.

I agree Big Oil and Defense contractors benefit from the War. It is also patently obvious that the American people benefit from having access to large supplies of oil reserves. Now, I would have flipped Saddam and I would have courted the Baathists even after the invasion; a better president might have done that. But in the summer and fall of 2004 those are irrelevant positions. The obvious retort is "ok where do you go from here?" Immediate withdrawal makes no sense from a campaign or policy perspective.