Who should Kucinich pick for VP?

[tinanator]

I dont know how many others DU'ers expect Kucinich to seize the nomination in one of the most remarkable nominationg conventions in the history of Man, but seeing how that will probably be the case, Id like to hear who you would like him to choose as a running mate. Sorry I cant craft a poll that conveniently leaves off certain possibilities, something that DK supporters have seen a lot of.
My preference would be Cynthia McKinney, who is yours?

[Freddie Stubbs]

1. The Easter Bunny?

Just keeping with the spirit of this topic.

[tinanator]

2. not even close

some spirits are mutually exclusive.

[fujiyama]

42. How about

Batman! Or better yet, Superman!

Then again, let's look at marvel superheroes...We got Spiderman and Wolverine...

Of course we could stick with your theme and go with Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy...

That said, in all honesty it would be nice if someone like Kucinich could get elected. I would personally like Fiengold as VP.

[lastknowngood]

3. Lu Dobbs

n/t

[Cuban_Liberal]

4. William Jennings Bryan, perhaps?

;)

[dweller]

5. How about

Howard Dean?

he can arm wrestle Kerry for the privilege.
dp

[ISUGRADIA]

6. Are you serious?

How pray tell, would Dennis Kucinich ever get nominated by the 2004 Democratic Convention delegates?

Even if Kerry were to drop out or not be the nominee there is no way given DK's perfrmance this year that he'd pick up the nomination.

[NoPasaran]

7. Willie Nelson

[Doosh]

8. Hulk Hogan

brotha!

[Freddie Stubbs]

17. The Hulk would never take the number two spot

He is the leading man type.

"To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong."

[Crunchy Frog]

9. John McCain.

That would be a kick ass ticket.}(

[Freddie Stubbs]

40. McCain has alread said that he supports Bush

[PVnRT]

10. Adlai Stevenson

or, better yet, how about Eugene Debs?

[MontecitoDem]

11. E.T.

E.T. come home!

[Freddie Stubbs]

26. Only natural born citizens can serve as VP

But if E. T. were to get his citizenship, he could serve in the Senate or as a governor.

[no name no slogan]

12. Sen, Mark Dayton (D-MN)

He's grown himself a pair of big ones over the last several months! He was ON FIRE at the MN DFL convention in May, and even announced a plan to get us out of Iraq in six months!

Better yet, he even TOLD Kucinich delegates at the convention to "light a fire under John Kerry"!. I heard him say it myself! He's got a lot of respect for DK, and I think he'd be good for getting those Kerry supporters on board-- after all, he came out early for Kerry in the primaries! Dayton has grown immensely as a public servant and as a Senator in the last two years since Wellstone's untimely death, and he's definately ready for prime time.

Two midwesterners on the same ticket? Who cares! Both OH and MN are considered "swing states" this year. With a Kucinich/Dayton ticket, we'd get them both!

:hi:

[cyclezealot]

13. A dream come true that would be.

I would like to see a Californian..Maybe Nancy Pelosi.If not a Californian...Possibly Rep. Jim McDermott of WA. Sen.Patty Murray. Or a real kick a$$ ticket..Rep. Lynn Woolsey..
Kucinich /Woolsey..Wow...We'd be on the attack and Bush would be running for cover.

[beyurslf]

14. He can pick whomever he would like... and in Nov all the rest of us will

vote for Kerry and whoever Kerry picks.

[ThirdWheelLegend]

16. You are going to vote Third Party?

TWL

[ThirdWheelLegend]

15. McKinney is good, How about Bernie Sanders?

Sharpton?

:)

Go Dennis!

TWL

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. McKinney and Sanders would rule. Nader would be great too.

[Freddie Stubbs]

38. Sanders in not a Democrat

He is an independent.

[WI_DEM]

19. I'm going to take this as a serious question and give it a serious answer

I think Howard Dean would be a good running mate. I like John Lewis as well.

[cosmokramer]

20. Doctor Spock of the Starship Enterprise.

:-)

[Freddie Stubbs]

43. MR Spock was on the Starship Enterprise

DR Spock is a pediatrician/author. Dr. Leonard McCoy was the Doctor on Star Trek.

[no name no slogan]

44. Geek check.......

I'm glad somebody else pointed that out-- I didn't want to prove that I was a geek (there's plenty of proof of that already).

:P

[cosmokramer]

49. Oh, dear...

...I am showing my signs of forgetfulness...THANKS for the education :)

[ArkDem]

21. Clark.

[Jack The Tab]

22. Me

Since we're both as likely to be nominated at the convention

[goodhue]

24. see you in Boston!

[goodhue]

23. Barbara Lee

[ThirdWheelLegend]

41. Ahh yes!

I also would go with Barbara Lee as a possible choice.

TWL

[AP]

25. Here are all the congresspeople who were more liberal that Kucinich in '03

Bob Filner, D-Calif.-51
John Lewis, D-Ga.-5
George Miller, D-Calif.-7
Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.-8
John Olver, D-Mass.-1
Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill.-9
Hilda Solis, D-Calif.-32
Maxine Waters, D-Calif.-35
Barney Frank, D-Mass.-4
Edward Markey, D-Mass.-7
Bill Delahunt, D-Mass.-10
Mike Honda, D-Calif.-15
Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill.-2
Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif.-34
Linda Sanchez, D-Calif.-39
Melvin Watt, D-N.C.-12
Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz.-7
Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y.-22
Donald Payne, D-N.J.-10
Bobby Scott, D-Va.-3
Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif.-6
John Conyers, D-Mich.-14
Danny Davis, D-Ill.-7
Sam Farr, D-Calif.-17
Barbara Lee, D-Calif.-9
Betty McCollum, D-Minn.-4
Grace Napolitano, D-Calif.-38
Jose Serrano, D-N.Y.-16
John Tierney, D-Mass.-6
Tom Udall, D-N.M.-3
Henry Waxman, D-Calif.-30
Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.-4
Jim McGovern, D-Mass.-3
Pete Stark, D-Calif.-13
Diane Watson, D-Calif.-33
Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.-2
Chaka Fattah, D-Pa.-2
Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.-15
Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio-11
Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.-31
Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio-13
William Lacy Clay, D-Mo.-1
Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y.-28
Alcee Hastings, D-Fla.-23
Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.-16
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich.
Jim McDermott, D-Wash.-7
Martin Meehan, D-Mass.-5
Major Owens, D-N.Y.-11
Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y.-12
Anna Eshoo, D-Calif.-14
Michael Capuano, D-Mass.-8
Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.-3
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.-8
Brad Sherman, D-Calif.-27
Howard Berman, D-Calif.-28
Lois Capps, D-Calif.-23
Peter DeFazio, D-Ore.-4
Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas-10
Bobby Rush, D-Ill.-1
Frank Ballance, D-N.C.-1
Rush Holt, D-N.J.-12
Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas-30
Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.-14
Robert Matsui, D-Calif.-5
Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y.-10
Tom Allen, D-Maine-1
Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore.-3
Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas-18
Jerry Kleczka, D-Wis.-4
Karen McCarthy, D-Mo.-5
Juanita Millender-McDonald, D-Calif.
Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y.-9
Julia Carson, D-Ind.-7
James Clyburn, D-S.C.-6
Elijah Cummings, D-Md.-7
Diana Degette, D-Colo.-1
John Larson, D-Conn.-1
Denise Majette, D-Ga.-4
Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.-2
Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.-8
Robert Wexler, D-Fla.-19
Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii-1
Robert Brady, D-Pa.-1
Eliot Engel, D-N.Y.-17
Lane Evans, D-Ill.-17
Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.-6

Tied:
Mark Udall, D-Colo.-2
Corrine Brown, D-Fla.-3
Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I.-1
Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio-10
Martin Olav Sabo, D-Minn.-5

http://nationaljournal.com/members/news/2004/02/0227nj_house_composite_lib.htm

[West Coast Democrat]

28. Your link doesn't work, but....

I'd like to know how it is officially determined for anyone in Congress to be deemed "more liberal than Kucinich."

[dweller]

29. it shows Kucinich tied

with himself?

dp

[mstrsplinter326]

37. Julia Carson?

No sir, that just isn't true. Jesse Jackson? Maybe on black rights, but he has a quasi-corporate whore track record...

[jsw_81]

27. ROFLMAO

You think Kucinich is going to be nominated?!?

[boobooday]

30. Tina Turner!

She rocks hard! :headbang:

That was just my first thought. But I share your dream. :-)

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[JPJones]

31. Deepak Chopra n/t

[Lefty Pragmatist]

32. Ron Paul

I mean, what the hell, if we're going to pick a dream ticket, let's just go all the way.

[Freddie Stubbs]

33. Ron Paul is extremely conservative on taxes and spending

He was actually the Libertarian nominee for President in 1988.

[theboss]

34. Mr. T

And then I want their campaign to be a reality tv show.

"T don't take no jibber-jabber from Republicans!!"

[Hippo_Tron]

45. I pity the foo who vote for Bush (n/t)

[MontecitoDem]

48. thanks for that! Hah!

[wjsander]

35. His imaginary prom date

Although, I heard she was conservative.

[Endangered Specie]

36. The Tooth Fairy

[Zorra]

39. Howard Dean

[debsianben]

46. Tactically, Dean

IF this somehow happened (sadly, I can't imagine how or why it would happen), I'd say that Dean would be the smartest choice since it would consolidate an alliance between the 21st Century Democrats and Democracy For America, which would be an urgent necessity to hold onto the party while the DLCers regrouped from whatever freak accident had wiped out Kerry and all of their backup candidates and hence given Kucinich the nomination. Of course, politically Kucinich has relatively little in common with Dean (who had a "fiscally conservative", pro-business and decidedly anti-welfare bent as Governor of Vermont), but that doesn't matter all that much, since with Kucinich at the top of the ticket Dean would be selling out to him rather than vice versa. ;)

[Alex146]

47. himself

twice the vision

[John_H]

50. His ego. n/t

[noahmijo]

51. I take you believe the Daily Show is non-fiction?

Well The Daily Show DID make a very convincing case as to how when you put the number of votes Kucinich compared to Kerry's in scientific notation it truly appears that Kucinich has the advantage.

Look not for nothin Kucinich is a guy who means well, but you die hard supporters are just a little too out there....