Why not? With a columnist like Molly Ivins saying she's had it with the D. C. Dems
http://www.progressive.org/... there is a need for other progressive candidates. I agree with Molly, Feingold is great, but there's a need for more candidates. The voters have to see who can cut it during a primary season, unify the party, and win in November of 08.
KO for Prez occurred to me early Saturday morning as I was watching the midnight viewing of Keith's Friday show. I normally watch him in the 8 p.m. hour, but I had to watch my Hawkeyes dispatch the hated Gophers in the Big Ten Tourney at that time, so I caught Keith in the midnight hour.
I tuned in a couple of minutes late, but was obvious Keith was leading with the Justice O'Connor's speech about warning us of the beginnings if dictatorship. Not that it was the `Breaking News' of the day, but it was one of the most important stories. It was probably the only time our history where a former Supreme Court Justice warned us we were on the road to dictatorship.
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Once again, Olbermann got it right. Which is not unusual, because night after night, Keith consistently gets the issues right, and he stays on the important issues when no other `reporter' in the MSM touches them. To many of us Keith Olbermann is today's version of the most trusted man in American.
While having to operate within the constraints of a news show, KO can get down to the brass tacks of issues that are important to us and the nation better than most of the politicians in the Democratic Party. It takes John Kerry 5 minutes to say something that Olbermann can say in a couple of sentences.
Olbermann knows the issues, he can frame the debate, he can speak extemporaneously (he has a brain), he has panache, chutzpa, is cool, and is electable. Republicans had a media savvy guy in Reagan and that worked well for them.
The smart strategy for a KO for Prez run right now is for Keith to do nothing. He stays on the show and reports on the key issues before the country. He should expand his coverage to other issues, like national health insurance for example, but the show remains the best way to increase his popularity, relevance, and to prove he's been right on key stories from the git go as the Bush brigade of evil doers continues to self-destruct.
Keith has kind of topped out in the sense I don't see him going beyond this kind of a cable show if he stays in the media. So, maybe in mid 07 KO announces on the show that he is resigning from Countdown because he's running for President.
In the meantime, the net and blogosphere can build the `Big MO'. Set up a KO for Prez websits, and other net events.
So with the knowledge that candidates like McGovern, Carter, and Clinton came out of nowhere, why not Keith? He's show more courage on the key issues of the day than most of the top pretenders have. Keith Olbermann for President.
KO the Republicans with Keith Olbermann.