Anybody else tired of the boring side-show candidates?

[Tropics_Dude83]

I for one am tired of these boring side-show candidates like Mr. 1% Ron Paul and Mr. 0% percent Gravel. They take the focus away from the frontrunners who actually have a chance to win. I was looking forward to a detaied in-depth discussion tonight where we can really analyze the differences and hear the opinions of Mr. Edwards, Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton. Instead, we are bound to get another side-show with someone who doesn't have the foggiest chance of winning the nomination and is frankly a joke with Dennis Kucinich.

I'm tired of these debates degenerating into circuses because of these go-nowhere in it for the publicity candidates. Edwards came in 2nd in the first in the nation caucuses, Obama won them and came in a close second in New Hampshire, and Clinton won the New Hampshire Primary! What has Kucinich done. Ugh! Now the distinctions between the 3 frontrunners will be blurred because of him.

OK, end of rant. I am not furious or anything with it but I really don't think that Kucinich has any business in the debates. Now if he had more support, sure.

[skipos]

1. You will like this sideshow candidate. Check him out:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4072326&mesg_id=4072326

[dionysus]

2. no, not really. when was the last time gravel was in a debate?

[DEMorthem]

11. these so called "side show candidates"

are a good thing in my opinion, they raise issues witch are often glossed over by "popular" candidates, issues such as tax reform, government spending, social security fund shortfalls, lobbyist influence and corruption in government. sometimes bringing these issues to the forefront in the campaigns of the "front runners" I for one am sick of the media and pollsters telling ME who is the best candidate for OUR country. I am happy to hear ALL sides and from ALL candidates. our choices are being made FOR us not BY us at this point, this race is just starting.

[dionysus]

14. i know.

if these candidates are such "nothings", why be afraid of having them up there?

[redqueen]

3. Yup! Never gets old!

What's that, two today... just that I've seen!

:rofl:

[Mass]

4. Are you serious?

[Kucinich4America]

5. Great, now we have CANADIANS in the DLC??

Un-fucking-believable :eyes:

[OneGrassRoot]

16. LOL!

:rofl:

Thanks for the first good laugh of the day!

[fenriswolf]

6. how is kucinich a side show?

Oh and the answer is that the only distinctions between the three are issues that don't really matter, for the most part the only thing we can really vote on for the three are
a. what they say they will do
and
b. what kind of "gut" feeling we get from them

for the most part I like edwards but kucinich is the one with a real message of hope and change and one that i can get behind.
you call him a sideshow and irrelevant. I call him the last honest voice for america and the last great hope. He at least brings up the important points in debates and sometimes forces the other candidates to at least talk about them.

[damntexdem]

7. Yeah, I'm tired of side-show candidates: all GOP.

And I'm tired of side-show DU threads dissing good Democrats, particularly Kucinich. I hope he stays in the race until the convention.

[Bad Thoughts]

8. Nope, I love 'em

Though I don't support him, and probably never will, Kucinich holds a great deal of sway with parts of the party that cannot be reduced to insignificance. And he makes me laugh.

[IndianaGreen]

9. Too bad for you guys that the American people are going to be expose to single payer health care

thanks to Kucinich being in the debate, instead of listening to the corporatist crap that the party establishment wants us all to hear.

Kucinich will also speak of getting all US troops out of Iraq, and not the bullshit spewed by the frontrunners which leave an occupation force in Iraq for years to come.

[Tarc]

10. "Sideshow Dennis" I like the sound of that

[flvegan]

12. Impeachment is boring?

Being against the war is boring?

Election accuracy is boring?

Being against the Patriot Act is boring?

Ending the war is boring?

Well shit then, color me A #1 fucking boring then.

[AlertLurker]

13. Anybody else tired of the boring side-show flamebait today?

[Myrina]

15. I am tired of the boring "Tier One Bush Lite" candidates, thank you.

:puke:

[SOS]

17. Carter and Clinton

were "side-show" candidates. Back then they were called dark horse candidates.
They are also the only Democrats to win the White House since 1964.

[Tarc]

18. Apples and oranges

Clinton was polling strongly early on, then plummeted to single digits for a time after all the Gennifer Flowers nonsense.

Carter built his numbers up slowly before the races, took 2nd in Iowa then won NH.

Dennis Kucinich has consistently and unwaveringly polled in the single digits, and never placed above 5th or so in any meaningful contest. 31% in the Hawaiian primary of 2004 looks great at firs,t til you consider the fact that most everyone but Kerry (obviously) had dropped out by then.