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Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich Ticket—Now that’s Hot…

January 3, 2012 by  
Filed under News, Opinion, Politics, Weekly Columns

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(ThyBlackMan.com) A Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich presidential ticket would be hot.  As a progressive, that would absolutely stoke my fires.  I bet that a Ron Paul/Kucinich ticket would also capture the interest of Republicans who hearken back to the party’s non-interventionist, fiscally conservative roots.

Yesterday, Felicia Sonmez, of The Washington Post, reported that Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum (R) called out Ron Paul, stating that the Texas “Republican’s views on foreign policy are more in line with liberal anti-war Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich than with the Republican Party.”  With that dismissive diss, Santorum just may have won Dr. Ron Paul more  converts.  Hey, why not put the two peace-loving, civil liberty favoring, avant garde congressmen together on a ballot?

With the New Year’s Eve signing by President Obama, despite “serious reservations,” of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which made the indefinite military detention of Americans not merely a real possibility but now law, we may be fast approaching Big Brother’s:  “War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength,” Orwellian reality. 

Kucinich, a Ohio Democratic congressman, and a consistent advocate for peace in the U.S. Congress, stated before the House of Representatives in recent weeks that the “bill authorizes permanent warfare anywhere in the world.”  In encouraging his fellow legislators against the Act which he argued “authorizes the military to indefinitely detain individuals without charge or trial, including the detention of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil,” he opined that “[o]ur children deserve a world without end, not war without end.”

Apparently, the youthful and invigorated “Paulbuts,” concur with Kucinich, and are more interested in nation building here than abroad.  Along with bringing back into the fold discontented youth and progressives,  Democrats must come to terms with articulating a coherent and consistent message on big war spending and war financing, which a faction of progressives feel is contradictory with the spirit of promoting civil and human rights. 

Then there’s the war on drugs waged in the ghettos of America—disproportionately impacting people of color and the poor; however, supported by leading Democrats, is highly criticized by the Libertarian Ron Paul. 

Yesterday on Nightline, one young Ron Paul volunteer in Iowa expressed her support for Ron Paul succinctly, when she stated that her enthusiasm for the Republican candidate stemmed from her belief that her generation would actually fare worse economically than her parent’s generation.  In a nutshell, the promise of each generation doing better than the last is not being fulfilled, something that transcends Santorum, Paul, and Kucinich—but certainly is not lost upon Ron Paul supporters. 

Staff Writer; Joy Freeman-Coulbary

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12 Responses to “Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich Ticket—Now that’s Hot…”
  1. Muk says:

    It needs to be Nader/Paul/Kucinich/Schiff

  2. Scotty says:

    Ron Paul had a 3rd place finish in Iowa last night. While he did not win, it is still a significant showing. Perhaps if more Blacks in Iowa would have shown up and register as Republicans, he could have easily won. There are more states to go and we as a people have a chance to drastically influence the debate that will occur between Obama and whoever the GOP nominee will be. Even if you support Obama and give him a pass, I do not see how, but ok, why would you not at least help a candidate that is anti-war, anti-drug war win that nomination? It is a perfect opportunity to play both parties against each other instead of letting Republicans nominated a candidate who will not address these issues. It seems to me that some Black people think it is sacrilege to participate in the GOP nomination process because they are ignorantly placing all their eggs in one parties basket. I would do it just because the GOP would not want us too.

  3. Christopher says:

    Obama is bought and paid for by the same people who bought Romney. 911 was an inside job. WAKE UP PEOPLE

  4. DK says:

    Round of applause and make it clap, for this young woman using her stella intellect–enjoy her writing tremendously!

  5. Mark says:

    This is kind of what I was thinking. But only if Paul doesn’t win the republican nomination. Because then he can take equal votes from both parties to win independently… 16 years of R. Paul

  6. Joseph Shay says:

    Sounds like a good ticket to me. If nothing else, it may further divide Republicans and give Obama an even better chance of getting reelected.

  7. DK says:

    this great, should go viral!

  8. James Anthony says:

    Not unlike Ron Paul, Thy Black Man is the consistent voice of reason in its political observations. Brilliant op-ed.

  9. Anthony M says:

    I’ve been campaigning for this ticket since 2007. When opposites like Paul and Kucinich attract, it shows us that there are REAL problems in our government. When the things they agree about are in place, then we can go back to arguing left vs right. Until then, I’m praying to Tom Cruise and the sun gods for a Paul/Kucinich ticket in 2012.

  10. trevor says:

    It will never happen. Im a RP supporter and I think Dennis is a good man. But if that was the ticket it would completely turn off every republican in the party. It would be a disaster.

  11. stovepipe johnson says:

    do you think that the big banks supporting both oboma and romney will bring big change. that is the crime of the century.

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