kucinich supporters check in and discuss, what do we do now?

[fenriswolf]

well where do we go from here? Do we back someone else or go home? I'm rooting for edwards now just because he has the most populist message and he is the one i think who has the least corrupting influence surrounding him.

*word is he is leaving to defend his seat. Be sure to send some contributions his way as we definatly don't want to loose him as a congressman.

[Rambis]

1. Edwards

I will not feed the Nader ego-

[fenriswolf]

2. def not. the only person I would vote 3rd party for

would be kucinich.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. I will still vote for him on 02/05, if he is on my ballot

:)

[laruemtt]

4. i'll be going to edwards here.

clinton and obama are way too DLC for my tastes.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Edwards. N/T

[tekisui]

6. Edwards.

[KansDem]

7. I was going to caucus for Kucinich on February 5th...

Now I think I'll go with Edwards.

[Kucinich4America]

8. Edwards is the only one of the three I can stand at all.

I just hope he will do what he says he will do. We all know damn well Hillary WON'T. And Obama..... His "unity" message doesn't play out when all his conciliatory language is going in one direction, to the right.

Edwards it is..... reluctantly. :evilfrown:

[vanboggie]

9. I'm glad to see this Edwards support

I have been an Edwards supporter from the get go, but if this was John bowing out, Dennis would be the only other one I'd consider voting for. I could not vote Rethuglican Lite for the DLC'ers who have the supposed lead.

We welcome you to the tent of the other candidate for the people.



Edited to clarify glad to see Edwards support, not glad to see DK drop out.

[sniffa]

10. Go to Lee Mercer, Jr.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. OK, now I'm torn. n/t

[no name no slogan]

12. I'm caucusing Uncommitted for president

There's a big US Senate race I'm going to focus on instead, but I'll still be working on the same issues (ending the war, single-payer universal health care, fair trade, etc.)

[elias7]

13. I don't trust Edwards

He seems a little too lightweight as well. I hear a strong rhetoric but I don't see a record or a plan to back it up.

Obama has great charisma, a great mind, unifying qualities, but not a lot of experience.

Clinton is a doer, an administrator, someone who will get stuff done, but i don't always know where she is exactly.

That being said, I would vote for any of the three.

But I think I'll keep my Kucinich '08 bumper sticker on a little longer...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. Plan B

and then Plan C. :-(

[Hell Hath No Fury]

15. I suspect I will be writing him in...

on the 5th. He was the only one whose positions mirrored mine almost 100% and who I trusted to do the right thing. Being in California gives me the luxury of voting my conscious.

Edwards woudl have been my fallback candidate if all I was basing my vote on was his recent campaigning -- unfortunately, his record in the Senate says differantly.

I may spend the next few weeks pushing Edwards here in SF, but still voting Kuch.

[Hatchling]

16. Donate to his Congressional Campaign on Payday

Nothing else to do and he's got a tough fight for re-election. Make a choice between the others for the Primaries, support the nominee in the GE and look deeply into whether there is a third party I should offer my support to after that or if staying in the Dem party and trying to change it is worth it.

[fenriswolf]

18. def at the very least

keep him in congress. we cannot let his voice die out.

[Zorra]

17. I'm backing Edwards now. n/t

[flvegan]

19. Have a drink, pour some out for our Constitution.

I have no idea what I'm going to do for the primary.

[flvegan]

29. Nevermind. I'm still voting Dennis in the primary.

He's the only one I can support.

[LeftyMom]

34. Yeah, me too

But I think we figured that out in the Official DU Vegans for Kucinich Strategy Meeting.



(That sounds way cooler than saying we private messaged about it, eh?)

[old guy]

20. I will sit out the rest of the primaries,

then mark an X behind the Dem in the GE. I'll be voting against the repub, not really for the Dem.

[MethuenProgressive]

21. May I suggest voting for him if he's on your primary ballot?

I plan on voting for Bill Richardson, and will then support who ever gets our nomination.

[Tektonik]

22. Edwards

although I'm sure Kucinich will be endorsing Obama due to bad blood between him and JE

[Cal Carpenter]

28. The Cleveland Plain Dealer indicates that he said he isn't endorsing anyone

in the Democratic race.

[fenriswolf]

31. yup

kucinich being the purist he is. Cant put himself behind any one person 100%, Us only having one vote do not have that option. We have to pick someone, so either these guys or voting out of party.

[GreenArrow]

23. I guess I'm switching to Gravel

I really don't give a fuck. Not that I ever had any illusions about Kucinich winning, but so long as he was in there, he provided a more or less honest voice on issues that none of the other candidates are dealing with. Health care. The war. The war on drugs. Foreign policy. Impeachment and consequences for imperial malfeasance. His positions on these and other issues are heads and shoulders above those of his competitors. They don't even come close. Clinton and Edwards are out as possibilities for me, primary or general. Obama is skating on thin ice. The country has its head up its collective ass.

[Apollo11]

24. Obama spoke out against the idea of invading Iraq back in October 2002

I would expect that might mean something to (former) supporters of Dennis Kucinich.

Just sayin' ...

[fenriswolf]

27. yeah except he didn't have a chance to vote for the IWR

so we can't really judge him on that. And also all 3 of the current candidates have voted to keep funding the war. So in my opinion regarding the war in iraq all 3 of them are on equal footing. Its actually like that for almost all their issues. from health care to their economic package they are all the same they just differ on the small points. The fix is in already and no one candidate is ultimatly going to be better then the other. But then again maybe I'm splitting hairs.

[David Zephyr]

38. It was the single defining issue for me, fenriswolf. Kucinich & Obama opposed the war.

And regardless of what the other poster said, the fact is that Barack opposed the war publicly WHEN he was running to be the Senator of Illinois and when the war was popular. Those that say "well, he didn't vote against it" gloss over the fact that he took a very unpopular position while trying to run for the U.S. Senate.

Kucinich and Obama both opposed this stupid war. The others voted for it and some have apologized (Edwards) and one still refuses to (Clinton).

For me, it was the war. It is still the war.

And Dennis is a hero to me. He didn't lose, the corporate media shut him down. If Barack wasn't a man of color, he would have already been shut down, too.

[fenriswolf]

40. true but as a candidate

Obama had to fortune to not be able to vote for it yet. He could take a position that was "popular" at the time and not actually have to follow through. Now I'm not saying that he would have voted for it but what I am saying is that "words" have no meaning to me anymore. It is actions. As he was not a congressman at the time his words meant nothing.

[no name no slogan]

48. He's also voted to continue funding the war

That is something that has troubled me about Obama.

[AZ Criminal JD]

49. Obama was not against the war unless Bush was too

Obama wrote an article, July 27, 2004 Chicago Tribune, where he said:

"On Iraq, on paper, there's not as much difference, I think, between the Bush administration and a Kerry administration as there would have been a year ago," Obama said during a luncheon meeting with editors and reporters of Tribune newspapers. "There's not that much difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage. The difference, in my mind, is who's in a position to execute."

He also told the NY Times that year that while he had opposed the war he did not have access to classified information and did not know how he would have voted if he had been in the Senate.

[bigwillq]

25. I will still vote for him

in my primary on 2/5

[Red Knight]

26. Edwards

but I'm not happy about it.

I do plan to send money to Dennis for his congressional race. It would suck to lose that seat to some corporate cutout.

[LittleClarkie]

30. :)

(slicks down hair, puts on Sunday best)

Have you thought about Obama?

[fenriswolf]

32. don't like liqued coal.

Don't like the fact that in order to pander to the religious people he started associated with homophobes and hate mongers. Don't like the fact that he seems to be beholding to coal interests and its futures. Plus that debate on CNN locked edwards as my second once i saw that horrible display between them. thanks though.

[LittleClarkie]

33. Curses.

Foiled again.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

35. Fortunately, my ballot comes with a write in option.

If Gravel doesn't get the nomination.

Edwards is a possible "nose-holder".

The other two....fuggedaboudit.

[MadHound]

36. I will still vote for him on the primary ballot

I want to, at least once this election cycle, vote for somebody, as opposed to either voting against someone or voting the lesser of two evils.

I don't trust, nor like, any of the other candidates left. They are all corporately compromised and quite frankly there is little difference between the three. This was driven home forcefully watching the Nevada debates.

I'm really at a loss as to what to do next. Kucinich is one of the few reasons that I've stuck with the Democratic party, and with him out of the race none of the Democratic options are good. I've become sick and tired of this two party/same corporate master system of government we have, and I might just go Green this year. We'll see, November is a long way off, and a lot of things can happen between now and then. A lot depends on who the nominee will be, both for the Dems and the 'Pugs.

But sadly, right now, the last true Democratic voice has been silenced in this race. And with that voice gone, who is going to speak for, much less represent those of us who are liberal, progressive, and true Democrats? Certainly not the top three candidates, they are just three different flavors of corporatism.

[GreenPartyVoter]

37. Edwards is a possibilty. So are the Greens.

[fenriswolf]

39. here's an idea

is the green party the new democratic party?

[BringEmOn]

41. Will caucus for Edwards or uncommitted on Feb 9th.

[DesertRat]

42. Kucinich is on my Feb. 5 ballot. I'm still voting for him. n/t

[mdmc]

50. if no one can stop HRC then I too will vote DK

:kick:

[mdmc]

43. anyone writing in

Ron Paul?

[rch35]

45. no

nonononononononononono

no

[Kashka-Kat]

44. HELP WITH HIS congressional campaign $$$ evidentally he is facing some particularly nasty

& well funded opposition

& I'll vote for Edwards

[Joe Fields]

46. Edwards.

[tokenlib]

47. Sorry about Dennis dropping out...

I remember how crappy I felt after Clark dropped out in 2004. I was down in the dumps for a few days. And when he didn't run this year I felt my hopes betrayed for awhile.
Dennis is a class act!
I wish the best to everyone who is demoralized today. Get a good nights sleep and may the pain ease up soon.