Reposted from the Kucinich thread...

The word I got from the Kucinich campaign at the national level (and I am in the Kucinich campaign myself - on the state level) is that, and I quote: "There will not be a Kucinich / Ron Paul ticket".

Frank, could you please post this to wherever you posted that stuff?


Ron Paul doesn't believe in the separation of church and state. Kucinich does. Ron Paul believes that the Christian churches should "eclipse the government in importance".

Kucinich and Paul have totally opposite plans for health care. Kucinich believes everyone should have it, and that profit motive should not be a part of the health care equation. Ron Paul believes that the market should determine who can have it and who can't.

Obama, by the way, believes that everyone should be required to have it, whether they can afford it or not. He has no plans to remove the extra costs that result from the profit motive of the insurance companies - in fact, his plan actually subsidizes the insurance industry. With Obama's plan, everyone will still have to pay premiums, deductibles, and co-pays to the insurance companies, and the insurance companies will still make their profits by denying care. Michael Moore endorses Kucinich's health care plan. He does not endorse Obama's health care plan.

With Kucinich's plan, the profit motive and all of its associated costs (advertising, lobbying, dividends to stock holders, etc.) will be eliminated, and we will receive a higher standard of care for less money overall.

Obama says he is against the Iraq war, but he has voted to fund it. Kucinich has voted consistantly to not fund it.

Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are good friends, and they share some of their beliefs about foreign policy, but their domestic agendas and some of their foreign policy ideas are completely incompatible.