Outside the Beltway

Dennis Kucinich Pondering 2008 Run

James Joyner · Thursday, December 7, 2006 · 4 comments

Ron Gunzberger passes on word that Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is “apparently interested in making a second White House run in 2008” and has told the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Shortly, I will make my intentions known.”

I’m hoping he and Al Sharpton, at the very least, reprise their campaigns from the last go-round. They’re what the country desperately needs: Some comic relief.

FILED UNDER: 2008 Election, Congress, Al Sharpton, Cleveland, Dennis Kucinich

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Comments

An Interested Party says:

Friday, 8 December 2006 at 00:21

They’re what the country desperately needs: Some comic relief.

No worries…I’m sure tha Sam Brownback and Duncan Hunter (Bill Frist as well, if he had decided to run) will fill that particular void in 2008…
James Joyner says:

Friday, 8 December 2006 at 06:27

While Frist, Hunter, and Brownback would not be serious candidates, in the sense of having a realistic shot at winning, they are serious men.
Steven Taylor says:

Friday, 8 December 2006 at 09:01

If he runs, it will help me out by having at least one candidate who starts out as “Burnt Toast” in the Toast-o-Meter
Triumph says:

Friday, 8 December 2006 at 09:16

I’m hoping he and Al Sharpton, at the very least, reprise their campaigns from the last go-round. They’re what the country desperately needs: Some comic relief.

Say what you will about Sharpton and Kucinich, they–along with Dean–were the most precient about Bush’s folly in Iraq.

Had either of them been elected, we wouldn’t have wasted millions of dollars and thousands of lives to be still entrenched in Iraq.