MaxSpeak on whether Democratic presidential
hopeful Dennis Kucinich is really as kooky as some think:
KOOK’S TOUR. Interesting that the predominant reaction to Kucinich over at Daily Kos, because of his policy positions,
is fear. What in other eras were perfectly ordinary Democratic Party positions — Harry Truman supported
national health insurance, other Democrats are critical of so-called “free trade” — have been successfully
defined by the Right as out of bounds, so people say whoa, Kucinich is out of bounds.Wasn’t it Lieberman who talked about ‘buy American’? If anything is kooky, as any kind of remedy for the
decline of U.S. manfacturing, that would be it. Obviously it doesn’t square with “free trade,” and under
the WTO it is probably illegal.Electing Kucinich would not be easy, to put it mildly, but Democrats’ deride his positions at their peril,
since they will be helpful in light of real problems facing the country. A good parallel is the successful
Republican effort to wreck the Forbes campaign by killing one of their best ideas — the flat tax. (Best
from a conservative standpoint.)