If it really happened, it would be interesting to see. The Dems want to be Republicans. But the Republican voters already vote Republican, so why would they vote for DINOs? The Dems need the left because that’s the only people they can con into voting for their candidates. But, maybe, just maybe this will be the sign of the end of that.

I’d really get a kick out of it if Dennis would announce both that he’s leaving the Dem party and still running for his seat in Congress as an Independent or a Green.

Screw the Dems! I like Kucinich, but screw the rest of that party. The left really needs to make defeating Democrats their top priority. It doesn’t even matter at this stage if the left can win on their own, but there’s lots of races out there with pro-corporate Dems taking up political space that the left needs. Lets go get them and make them lose. Lets see if we can bring the Dem party to its knees by putting left wing candidates against it in the general election in one three-way race after another.

The Dem party is build on winning. They have to win to attract the bribe money that fuels their campaigns. No big money is going to back the Dems if they start losing all the time. Lets make defeating Dems the top priority. And we can have fun supporting candidates we really like in three-way elections while doing it!

There would be no evident need to visit Dennis to make Dennis “an offer he could not refuse”. Everyone in Congress knows these stakes, going back to mild conservative Paul Findlay and others, and now Jim Moran who was being made out to be like Joseph Goebbels for criticizing AIPAC.

It is obvious that Dennis Kucinich already figuratively “threw the DLC and the Israeli Lobby out of his office” when he took those critical positions.

It is NOT AT ALL unlikely that Cimperman’s campaign is being financed by Pelosi, DLC, and AIPAC, and that the support he’s getting from the Plain Dealer includes these forces.

Rahm Emanuel, in his position as DCCC Head under Pelosi, sought out wealthy conservatives to finance Democratic pro-war opposition candidates to Democratic grassroots antiwar candidates — though he sent out a letter from DCCC stressing that it is their policy to remain neutral — and even when the outcome was the comparatively “unknown” Democrat challenger ultimately and predictably lost the seat to the Republican opponent.

“But pressure coming from the national Democratic Party was too great. The Democrats had found a challenger for Cegelis, an Iraq veteran named Tammy Duckworth. Contributions were pouring into the opposing campaign and Duckworth was shuttled into the national media spotlight. Cegelis began receiving calls from Democratic members of Congress informing her that they were planning to support Duckworth.”

The article on this was on Truthout, it is a scandal because Dems undermined their own party to help Bush and the Republicans, and that helped give them the excuse that they could claim “deadlock” an insufficient votes to oppose Bush and his allies.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090607J.shtml
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=antiwar+truthout&as_epq=Rahm+Emanuel

Democrat leader sabotaged antiwar candidates election.
Complicit in continuation of the war

http://elections.jta.org/2008/02/11/kucinich-denies-aipac-meeting/

What the “F” is wrong with America?

I am disgusted.

I am going to call Pelosi’s office today, and then both my Senators and my Representative about this.

Our votes don’t count, elections are rigged, we are lied into a war, our president breaks the law knowingly and quite proudly, our taxes are going to other countries while there are millions of Americans who need help.

WTF?

I can’t say that enough!

Corey
http://www.CoreyMondello.com
2-11-08

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For “progressives”, Progressive Democrats of America, Move-On, etc. “hope springs eteranl” and “anyone but Bush of 2004″ is now in 2008 “any Democrat over any Republican”. So what if a Democrat is elected President? Does it mean anything for the millions of working people without health insurance, up to their ears in credit card debt, losing their homes, public education in serious decline, etc.etc. (too numous to itemize here).

The Kucinichs, Naders, Sheehans of this country need to issue a issue a call for a new anti-war, anti-corporate People’s Peace Party to unite the millions of people into a focus movement to rid the country of Democrats and Republicans. Both parties are corporate controlled by corporate money.

The organized labor movement, long considering itself a “business partner” to corporate capitalism, has actively participated in it’s own decline and political impotence. Global corporate capitalism, forever in search of maximization of profit, has moved millions of labor intensive jobs over seas. Capitalism, devoted to enriching the few at the expense of the majority, must be replaced with a ecologically sustainable economic system “of by and for” the needs of the people.

Without this transition to a socialist economy, war for profit will endlessly destroy the planet and this country. Global warming will continue as profitable polluters continue unabated. The economy and the standard of living of ordinary working people will continue to decline into such massive poverty, disease, the U.S. will become a third world country. (a tiny billionaire ruling elite ruling over a majority of impoverished people.)

Personally, I would like to see Ralph Nader back Cynthia McKinney who seems to wisely be her own person– note her support for New Orlean’s Reconstruction Party, her continued outspokeness about economic and racial injustice… and gulp… 9/11 and Cointelpro (not exactly front page news for the GP of A).

Dennis is being McKinney’d– it was coming the very moment that he said on stage that he would not support a nominee that is not antiwar.

3 questions remain: Is Barack Obama sufficiently antiwar? Is Hillary Clinton’s campaign toast– or are there a few tricks left up the Democratic Leadership Council’s sleeve? Has Kucinich crumpled in his promise to press for impeachment?

Interesting to see the number of Greens flaking out to join the Obama feel-good train… when they could be coalescing with people like Sheehan and McKinney and Nader to keep making strong demands.

Without those demands– Obama will have a hard time asserting real progressive changes; if left to challenge McCain without pressure would he be tempted to get a hawk to be his running mate– ratchet of the belligerancy rhetoric?

Is there any pressure on him now to contemplate the “I” word (impeachment)?

Lots of questions here… few answers– so long as peace candidates go things alone and do not show unambiguous solidarity. Who is taking a leap of faith?

It’s getting to be past my bedtime.

In any case, we all have our favorite Dennis K. quotation, don’t we? Mine is, approximately: “We already know the state of the nation: it’s a lie.”

Give to the man, gentle readers. He’s very, very important.

http://www.cosmosleft.com/images/405_Iraq_kids_thumbs_down.jpg

She doesn’t have any reason to know it, but our birthdays are about two months apart.