(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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