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No, I’m not going to ask you support my candidate, Dennis Kucinich.  My birthday falling on the same day as the caucus would be a pretty slim reason to justify that.  But I am willing to ask that you be willing to vote for a candidate not on the basis of some specious claim to electability (remember, if so-called moderates were so likely to win, we’d have President Kerry right now) but on the basis of their positions.  And  I ask you, when determining these positions, not to simply take a candidate’s word for it.  Populist rhetoric, rhetoric about hope and change: it’s all very pleasant, but it’s ultimately meaningless without a voting record to back it up.

Yes, even politicians may honestly change their minds.  Yes, no one is right all of the time.  But if you’re going to be voting for someone who has made a major “mistake” in their past votes, you’d better be certain that there’s something else in their record that atones for it or, at the very least, some concrete record of doing more to make up for it than just donating words, words, words.

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