Re: Kucinich: "my intention is to establish a second party"

"jrd100" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Sarah" <newsgroupsdon'[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> > Great Quote from a prejudiced article:
> >
> > Asked if he would jump ship to the Green Party if Democrats reject
> > him, Kucinich dodged the question.
> >
> > "I've been asked about running as a third-party candidate, and my
> > intention is to establish a second party," he said.
> >
>
> I wonder what second party he is talking about.
>
> This is a process to get Green Party supporters to register Democrat
> before the elections. I hope Greens will still support a Green Party
> candidate and not Dennis Kucinich.

I was a Nader voter in 2000 but I am backing Kucinich through the
primaries simply because he is a Democrat in favor of fixing the
problems with elections, supporting public funding of same and
supporting IRV, which is our best hope of moving the Greens ahead in
time to prevent environmental global catastrophes - if it is not
already too late.  He is taking the right stands on the WTO and NAFTA.
I will continue support of Greens and green independents at the local
and state levels, and should Kucinich not win the primaries, that is
the work I will return to.

He is hated by DLC for being a progressive who stood against Clinton
and most of the Dems for being too far to the left - everything I have
read and researched indicates he is a moral, ethical man.  He oughta
be a Green.  But he isn't.  He believes he can do more by staying
within the Democrat party and trying to move progressive issues
forward so that Greens and other parties can have a place at the
table.  Right now, today, getting the US onto Kyoto and the other
issues Dennis Kucinich is fighting for - against all odds, are enough
for me to put Green Party pride aside to try to save something for my
grandkids.

I can not imagine any Democrat who would vote for Bush over Kucinich.
That gives us all the best opportunity we've had in many a year to
bring a strong progressive voice back into DC.  If we can get Kucinich
in and then work our tails off to help him get IRV through, we will
have done a lot more for the Green party than we would have by
insisting on staying out of the discussion because Dennis is not a
Green.

I can't figure out what we have to loose.  Register as a Dem - work
your butts off for Kucinich through the primaries and do our durnest
to get him nominated.  Whether he wins or looses, we can go back and
reregister as Greens and get back to the work of our party and putting
as many progressives into the Senate and Congress and in state and
local positions as we can..

Even if he looses, we win if we can get him a decent vote count and
showing in the primaries and caucuses - because that is a
demonstration of our concern about the issues he is running on.  If
liberals and progressives, Greens, socialists continue to stay divided
because of the details when there is someone running who is so close
to so many of our ideals - then we all wait longer for our turn at
bat.

Dennis is correct.  Right now there isn't a second party.  The
Democrats for the most part with a few notable exceptions are
Republican lite.  The neocons and Christian Right were smart enough to
put their differences in the details aside long enough to get all of
them a place at the table.  And then they started steamrolling over
the environment, the poor, separation of church and state, destroyed
International relations in favor of empire building.  They seem intent
on continuing Regan's dream of bankrupting the country so they can do
away with what they perceive to be all those "socialist" programs.

I say that Dennis Kucinich is providing Greens, progressive Democrats,
liberals of various flavors, socialists with an opportunity to come
together and save preserve some of what we hold dear so we can go back
to squabbling over the details instead of preparing for a revolution.
I'd like to try peaceful revolution just one more time, first.