Gore's Shame and the rise of a "Realistic Candidate"

I am guilty of all charges that I will lay out for you.  I hoped Gore would enter and I've supported John Edwards as a "realistic candidate," and ignored Denny K this whole election thus far.  I am calling out other gulity people on this website to step back for a moment and re-evaluate your positions and overall philosophy of presidential politics.  Those of you that are still not behind a candidate, bless you.  I wish I'd held out in light of the debacle thursday which made me ashamed to be a democrat and ashamed to be even watching CNN and supporting their political agenda which made our candidates look like asses and beggars save for one man

First while I hoped Gore would enter the race, I saw it as an opportunity for redemption for him.  He blew the 2000 election and then inexplicably gave up fighting for a recount in the name of saving our constitution and system of government.  Gee thanks, Mr. Gore for your selfless sacrifice.  Our constitution is standing tall right now...NOT!  With a successful candidacy in 08, Gore could have restored this country and began the healing and instead he continues to hide from his mistakes in the past and the one path he has to redeeming his good name after the 2000 disaster.  

The idea that he can fight global warming outside of politics is utterly ridiculous and pathetic.  He is turning down the opportunity to be elected to the most powerful position in the world, POTUS.  He is one of the few people in the US that understands that the first step in fighting global warming is ending the occupation of Iraq in the name of cheap oil.  POTUS is the one position in which a person of his stature and history could truly make a difference and implement comprehensive policies based on his principles and comprehension of the challenges that face humanity.  The POTUS can pull us of Iraq and put in place energy policies with global implications.  Private citizens can't.  If he really cared he'd sacrifice his ego, and conquer his fears and run.  He is choosing instead to hide and for that I refuse to jump on the bandwagon in support of his freedom to chooose his own destiny and fight global warming "his way."  

He is a career politician and politicians run for office damn it!  Gore has earned nothing and deseves none of the adulation and outcry of support for his lack of concrete action.  He will go down as a tragic politician who did not stand when given the opportunity.  He has chosen to sit on the sidelines and watch.  I am just as angry now as I was in 2000 when he backed down from Bush as SCOTUS violated the US Constitution through its intervention in Florida politics.  I guess it wasn't his advisors that hindered him, it was his own fear and lack of action just like now and I am tired of people commending him for starting websites, winning peace prizes, and making movies.  He'll be fine regardless of a crumbling economy, lack of universal health care, and drastic climate changes.  It's the rest of us that will suffer.  

Next, after thursday, I am very scared  for our country.  I like Edwards, but I can't honestly believe any of the big 3 will get us out of Iraq anytime soon.  We'll be there for years and worse on this site we'll be defending their justification for not starting an immediate withdrawl as a democratic president explains away the Iraqi occupation and the deaths of some 10,000 soldiers 5 years from now in a run for re-election.  The big 3 blubbering idiots in a cowardly act, refused to call out Wolf Blitzer for his questions which were insulting to say the least.  I was rooting for John Edwards on Thursday but became increasingly frustrated with his unwillingness to be straight and honest about his positions.  Obama and Clinton fared no better than him.  It was weird watching the 3 of them repeatedly waffle.  I have been an Edwards supporter so I stand gulity as charged like many of you.  Those of us that support the big 3 do so not because we like our candidate; we do it because we think they can win.  That philosophy has left us with the 3 stooges and we are to blame for it.  Kos has always emphasized the importance of supporting realistic candidates and I have agreed in the past, but that has to stop and it needs to stop now.  

Supporters of the big 3, I ask you to step back and evaluate your choice.  We don't speak positively about our candidates on this site as much as we defend their shortcomings, justify their mistakes they made in the past, and argue over semantics as we compromise our own principles in support of the Big 3.  That's not good for the future of this country or this party.  We sound like the GOP!  We should be promoting our candidate's strengths without having to explain away what amount to serious flaws for all 3 on their positions.  Truth is, in a blind test I believe we'd all support Dennis K overwhelmingly after Thursday.  In the 6 minutes he was given, he proved to be the one man with courage, clarity, and honesty and the only person to stand up to Wolf and CNN.  Did you see the soldier's mother in the audience when he called for impeachment even as Wolf tried to cut him off?  She was ecstatic.  I bet in the blind test we'd have a hard time telling the difference in views of the Big 3, but we'd know immediately who stood out and that is Dennis K.  

This site should take another look at Dennis K and hang our heads in shame for not supporting him sooner.  He supports the positions on this website more than any other candidate on impeachment, climate change, labor, trade, universal health care, education, Iraq, foreign policy, the Constitution, Supreme Court appointments, and immigration.  His only flaw is he has not been tapped by corporate America as a "realistic candidate."  Was the USA a realistic possiblity in 1774 on the eve of the War for Independence against British Empire?  Was it realistic to believe slavery could truly end circa 1840?  Were women being realistic at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?  Was it realistic to convince corporate America the 8 hour workday would make us more productive as a national economy?  Was the New Deal a realistic economic first aid package to pull us out of the Great Depression?  Was Martin Luther King being realistic when he organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott?  Is Dennis Kucinich a realistic candidate for POTUS?  PEOPLE OF DKOS WAKE UP!!!!