Dennis Kucinich is the only Democratic presidential candidate who can beat a Republican in 2008.

Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting evil. I'm writing in Dennis Kucinich when I vote on November whether he is on the ballot or not. He is the only candidate that can beat a Republican. The rest are weak on progressive issues and any progressive values they speak out about will get trashed by Republicans. Republicans will do to Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Dodd, Richardson, and Biden what was done to Kerry. They will put any candidate other than Dennis on the defensive for much of the election throughout the summer and up until November. It will be exactly like what happened when Kerry was accused of being a flip-flopper. Think of the problem that a Democrat who sets himself or herself up for a run for the White House as the most electable candidate has. John Kerry did it and failed terribly. Without making sharp criticisms of the Bush administration and without using progressive messages to win vibrant support from his base, he lost to a man who many disapproved of. There is no reason why he should have lost. Except he did. Now, we have three top-tier candidates unwilling to speak out about 9/11, impeachment, the illegality of the Iraq war, how wrong it is to consider human beings to be "illegal", the rise of fascism, etc. Instead, they play it safe only speaking ideas that will allow them to get Republican votes not even stopping to think if they are going to much towards the Right and losing the vote of Democrats. (*Or else they think they can be for whatever because Democrats will shamefully vote for a Democrat just because he or she is not a Republican and not even ask themselves if there's a dime's worth of difference.) Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards should be prepared to eat the wisdom of Dennis Kucinich if they end up successfully marginalizing him out of the race: I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again. Dennis Kucinich Funding the war yet speaking out against it is what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have continued to do. On April 26, 2007, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama voted for H.R. 1591, which approved 124 billion dollars to go towards primarily the war in Iraq while also setting a timetable for withdrawal. The bill failed and instead a vote on a motion that was essentially H.R. 1591 without the troop withdrawal deadlines supported by anti-war Democrats was passed with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama voting against it. As with the attack on John Kerry where Republicans said that "he voted for the war before he voted against it", it could undoubtedly be said the Republicans will be gearing up to use the same attacks on Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. And even John Edwards or Chris Dodd. The story behind the words would not be the same, however, the words would. The Republicans will hold flip-flops in the air and say, "He (or she) voted for the war before voting against it." And then go on to talk about how they, the Democrats, continue to allow for funding without doing what should be done to show they are strong anti-war candidates. If they were truly anti-war, they would defund the war, use the funds already appropriated to bring our troops home, and then they would move the UN in to institute an international peacekeeping and security force that could finally bring peace to the region and end our "go-it-alone" strategy that has so negatively affected our standing in the world. That said, the Democrats should run a candidate who has been against the war from the start and who has consistently voted to defund the war and bring our troops home like the American people want. Giuliani, Thompson, Romney and especially now Mike Huckabee...Neither Republican presidential candidate will be easy for any Democrat. It will be even harder if the Democratic candidate's stances are not rock solid. I'll repeat myself. It will be extremely difficult if the candidate we run has a history of changing his stance on the issues and if he has sometimes voted for something and then against it. We need someone with consistency like Dennis Kucinich to run or else, I will repeat myself again, the American people lose.