Reply #164: Don't give up on Dennis!

[Utopian Leftist]

Beam Me Up said,

Why is it that Ron Paul is able to raise 4.2 million dollars in one day and not Dennis?

I could not agree more. I have lurked here at DU since 2004 and I am beginning to get very excited by the support I'm seeing for Kucinich. He truly is the most progressive candidate since Ralph Nader, sadly an extreme rarity among the Democrats these days.

So why are progressives not rallying behind him? If Nader could get almost five percent of the vote WITHOUT EVEN BEING A MAJOR PARTY CANDIDATE, then why can't Kucinich manage to get his progressive message out to those who would be most responsive to it? How did Howard Dean's campaign cause such a stir in 2004? Wasn't it based mostly on the support from the Internet? Just like Ron Paul's? Why can't we stage a "Dennis Kucinich Day," something like Ron Paul's followers staged?

To those who say that Dennis is unelectable, that may well be. But it will CERTAINLY be the case if we adopt the defeatist attitude that the MSM wants to brainwash us into. Besides, Hillary has to choose a running mate. If Shrubya could get elected with Darth Cheney as Veep, then why couldn't Hillary get elected with Dennis on her ticket? Think about it. If we could just find a way to get his message across to enough people so that the MSM would be FORCED to pay him some respect (instead of marginalizing him by asking him irrelevant UFO questions), then he could at the very least be in position to heavily influence the party platform, even if Hillary makes a safer choice.

Please don't give up on Dennis just because the MSM have already decided that Hillary is our new President! If you believe in what Kucinich is doing, then support him in every way possible. I know that I will.