Kucinich Predicts Winning Democratic Nod (This is NOT a Joke, Folks!)

AP via Yahoo! ^ | 02/04/04 | MALIA RULON

[Recovering_Democrat]

WASHINGTON - Democrat Dennis Kucinich has only two delegates and low single-digit showings after nine nominating contests, yet he said Wednesday he's staying in the presidential race.

"The race for the nomination will go all the way to the convention," Kucinich said in a statement. "It is at the convention where I will win the nomination, based on the emergence of Iraq as the defining issue."

In the seven states that voted Tuesday, Kucinich finished with no more than 5 percent of the vote and none of the 269 pledged delegates at stake. A candidate needs 2,162 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.

Kucinich was spending the rest of this week in Washington state, Michigan and Maine, where Democrats will caucus on Saturday and Sunday. He planned to stump next week in New York, Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, Ohio, Nevada, California and Wisconsin.

Kucinich, an Ohio congressman who also faces re-election to his Cleveland-area seat, said he would stay in the race because he's the only candidate with a plan to get U.S. troops out of Iraq.

"Incredibly, you have Bush running for re-election on Iraq, which is the very issue that I can defeat him on," he told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday.

Kucinich said he stands apart from his rivals because he has repeatedly called on the Bush administration to prove that deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

Former CIA weapons inspector David Kay recently said he doubted that Saddam ever possessed such weapons. Bush agreed this week to name an independent commission to investigate the intelligence used to go to war.

"We have a president who is saying he wants to get the facts and yet he sent people to war without the facts and we have Democratic front-runners who said they were misled and yet they sent people to war," Kucinich said. "Where's the accountability?"

[Recovering_Democrat]

CUCKOO! CUCKOO!

Seriously, this is great news. Dennis, you keep pickin' off 2 or 3% of the nutjobs. Let the Green party candidate do another 2 or 4%, and Al Sharpton and/or third-party candidate Howard Dean can take an additional 4%...Bush will win about 450 Electoral Votes with that kind of scenario.

[secret garden]

Time to break out the straight jackets ping.

[Tijeras_Slim]

[Luke Skyfreeper]

I dunno. Looks like it's gonna be a close race with Mad Howard Dean...

[goldstategop]

Dennis The Menace is as likely to win the Democratic Presidential nomination as Nikita Dean or the rest of the loser Dwarfs next to Jean F. Cheri.

[stanz]

Kucinich can take his place right up there with Baghdad Bob.

[Koblenz]

I don't think Kucinich is going to run in the general election...

[miloklancy]

Kucinich is not only the most dillusional of the Dems pack of losers, but he is probably also the worst administrator out of the bunch.

[Revolting cat!]

Easy! Two months ago 10 RATS were saying the same thing, and today how many now 5? are intorduced as "The Next President of The United States". Is that any different or more ridiculous? Wait until 2008 when you'll all be playing the same game.

[cripplecreek]

Uhhh i dont think we're in kansas anymore dennis.

[Pompah]

Oh Brother.!!
Their coming to take me away Ho Ho

Their coming to take me away..

[IncPen]

I still think he just ran for president so he could, ahem, meet 'chicks'.

[afuturegovernor]

Let's draft Dennis to run a third party race in the general election.

[cripplecreek]

There ya go. I suggest a Kucinich/Nader ticket.

[dwd1]

There is a possibility he could serve very well on "Fantasy Island" as "Tattoo"

RIP Herve Villachaize...

[blau993]

I think Ralph prefers being on top.

[ambrose]

Love that graphic. Most fitting.

[ambrose]

[xp38]

He's been listening to Grandfather Twilight too much.

[Mark]

I kind of liked his previous "handler": Buffalo Bob Smith.