Speakers at the R4R convetion should include: Kucinich, Wolf, Nader, Griffin, Napolitano, Hersh & Ruppert.

Dennis Kucinich is not your typical smarmy liberal. It's also not fair to those of us who want to salute someone who courageously fights the good fight to dismiss him as a run of the mill socialist. Obviously, his domestic economic policies, or democratic policy agenda, are not what we endorse. If we want to encourage good things, we should look for occasions to reinforce good things with praise.

I don't think this should turn into a political endorsement thread, so I haven't posted this before. But I include it now to demonstrate that conservatives can find more to talk about with progressives like Dennis Kucinich, and perhaps this gives some insight as to why Ron Paul regards Dennis as a friend.

Now here is a summary of Dennis' record on abortion from a liberal website critical of his failure to fit their ideal:

“As a Congressman, Dennis amassed one of the most anti-abortion voting records in Congress, one especially unusual for a Democrat. Fair enough, Kucinich was raised Catholic. He voted to criminalize partial birth abortions, to deny American servicewomen the right even to pay for their own abortions overseas, to prevent Washington, D.C. from funding abortions for poor women with nonfederal dollars, against research on RU-486, even against health coverage of basic contraception for federal employees. In 1996 he told Planned Parenthood that he did not support the substance of Roe v. Wade. He received a 95 percent position rating from the National Right to Life Committee, versus 10 percent from Planned Parenthood and 0 percent from NARAL."

"Now that he wants to run as a progressive Democrat though, he is waffling all over that stance. He told The Nation magazine that "I believe life begins at conception and that it doesn't end at birth." (Huh?) He said he was not in favor of either a Human Life Amendment that would constitutionally protect "life" from the moment of conception, nor the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and presented his votes as votes not against abortion per se but against federal funding of the procedure…. And while told The Nation he was not in favor of "criminalizing" abortion, he voted for a partial-birth-abortion ban that included fines and up to two years in jail for doctors who performed them, except to save the woman's life. "

"When pressed, Kucinich said 'I haven't been a leader on this. These are issues I would not have chosen to bring up.' "

We should invite Dennis so we can salute his anti war and impeachment leadership. He has some good things to say to us and the world. We should keep the dialog open and show respect for his heroic stands.