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| Kucinich quits the race |
| 2008-01-24 |
| Jim Geraghty, National Review's "Campaign Spot" Dennis Kucinich has departed the presidential race. With him not invited to the debates anyway... how many of us will notice? Actually, as much fun as it would be to pick on him one last time, I'm going to take a moment to salute him. Dennis Kucinich knows what he looks like. He knows he's polling in asterisk territory, and probably never surpassed six percent. He knows that everyone laughs when he speaks, and that his rivals roll their eyes when he calls for a Department of Peace, and that when he's addressing crowds at a candidate forum, everyone takes their bathroom break during his remarks. He knows Russert is going to ask him the UFO question, if and when he gets to him at all. He knows that Gravel is going to steal his thunder as the angrier, crazier fringe candidate. He knows that if people are playing a drinking game for every time he says, "I'm the only one on this stage who voted to de-fund the war", they'll suffer alcohol poisoning before the debate is half done. And yet day after day, Dennis Kucinich gets up out of bed and hits the trail and makes his case. And he's not terribly good at it, to judge from the poll numbers, but that relentless, dauntless determination in the face of enormous odds deserves some admiration. Oh, and also...Mrs. Kucinich has been, far and away, the best campaign eye candy on the Democratic side. Farewell, Elizabeth Kucinich's husband. Don't despair, moonbats, you still have Ron Paul. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #5 The media mostly ignored him so he wasn't much fun in the race anyway. Luckily we have the wacky old LIbertarian fellow to add comedy to the campaigns. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-01-24 22:25 |
| #4 his district also appears to have awakened to the fact that their Rep is an absentee kook, disrepected by all, and is perhaps looking for a less-kooky alternative. Dennis is looking to preserve his gravy train before he loses two job opps |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-01-24 21:47 |
| #3 Plans to spend several weeks in Stephenville, Texas. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-01-24 21:07 |
| #2 Dennis who? |
| Posted by: GK 2008-01-24 20:53 |
| #1 Don't go away mad - just go away. (And take your mangy fellow candidates with you!) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-01-24 18:12 |