A candidate who says things others don't

[Poppyseedman]

Tomorrow, Kelly, a 51-year-old Saunderstown resident, will go to the Rhode Island Board of Elections and file to run for U.S. Senate. He'll file as an independent, because the Democratic Party he grew up with and loved and believed in has disappeared. And the Republican Party is, well, the Republican Party.

OK, OK, I know -- another fringe candidate with little money or organization or name recognition. But guess what? The mainstream party candidates who do have the money and the organization and the name recognition aren't exactly firing up the public or inspiring hope for better days. Have you seen the TV ads? They're about as compelling as a Lava lamp.

"The last six years have been so discouraging -- both parties haven't come out of this well," says Kelly.

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Kelly talks about the numbers, about the possibility of tapping into those Democrats who, like him, don't really know the party anymore. He wants to retrieve and revive the party's liberal wing, wherever it might have gone.

He talks of Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, men who actually stood for things in a party that actually believed that government should take care of people who need to be taken care of.


http://www.projo.com/news/bobkerr/projo_20060625_sunco25.17b90f1.html

[Poppyseedman]

1. I thought we were the liberal wing

He wants to retrieve and revive the party's liberal wing, wherever it might have gone.

[Totally Committed]

2. "Kelly talks about the numbers....

about the possibility of tapping into those Democrats who, like him, don't really know the party anymore. He wants to retrieve and revive the party's liberal wing, wherever it might have gone.

He talks of Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, men who actually stood for things in a party that actually believed that government should take care of people who need to be taken care of.


Yeah, baby! -- Franklin Roosevelt made a great start, and John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King -- could have changed the world if any of them had lived. Great Democrats... REAL Democrats... with working hearts, minds, souls, and balls.

TC

[heartofthesiskiyou]

3. Oh good......

another abandon the party instead of take it back. More refusal to see splitting the vote as disastrous. Somebody should donate this guy a calculator or a consultant or two. Any pub money involved in this? (see ralph nader)

Nobody should support these kinds of activities, at least not now. If, at some point it becomes clear that the democratic party, refuses to rep the people than we should consider, in mass, another party. But we're years away from any such potential decision, which I hope never has to be made. At this point we are about two years away from a watershed election that should change politics for the next couple decades and begin a progressive agenda that will change the world. In forty years of efforts we have not come this close. Stay the course, free the people.

[Poppyseedman]

4. Obviously, this guy thinks the party

has been taken over by something other than liberals. What they are, is not stated.

Do you really think the democratic party today represents the people?

As for 2006 being a watershed event, I believe you are being quite myopic.

If this guy represents your democratic moderate, we are in deep trouble.

Guys like this don't abandon the party unless he thinks the party abandoned him first.

[ChipsAhoy]

5. I respect his choice!

Gee, it's not like he's joining the Pub party for crying out loud.

I like this line of yours, poppyseed:

"Guys like this don't abandon the party unless he thinks the party abandoned him first."