Reply #78: Nice post. Even 'public financing' won't fix more than half of the abuse. Further ... [View All]

[TahitiNut]

... you'll notice that such candidates are torpedoed by a combination of smothering them under a blanket of silence (depriving them of any reasonable exposure) AND a litany of PERSONAL ATTACKS. The 'issues' and the candidate's stance on the 'issues' are NEVER discussed in association with them. Never.

Just ask the "man on the street" (or in another candidate's 'town hall meeting') what Kucinich's stance is on health care, immigration, the economy, or even Iraq and you'll either get a blank stare or a regurgitated attack against a 'standard' that NO CANDIDATE can pass or some despicable insult of his appearance. It's NEVER about his policy positions.

Yet there's one thing that the corporatocracy makes damned sure happens ...

For YEARS and YEARS afterwards, they'll tell you that "that's not a 'winning' position" on health care, or the economy or whatever. "Liberal positions are losing positions." BUT IT WAS NEVER ABOUT THE ISSUES WHEN THEY ASSASSINATED THE CANDIDATE!!!

What they do is TIE the most fair and equitable position on the issue to the tail of that cat and then run it out of town ... and then tell us that we can't have what we really need.



The WORST thing about that is the IDIOT 'liberals' (and those who call themselves that) who swallow that unadulterated garbage! Fucking fools!