If Kucinich had political acumen equal to his ideals, I would vote for him in a minute.
(remember...his 'plan' for Iraq was to 'pack up and get out....bring all the troops home NOW.)

In politics and diplomacy, it seldom works to just barge straight ahead.

Kucinich is valuable as a front-man, to excite and point to goals. I am terribly afraid that, as a president, he would cause frothing panic in conservatives, and even more stonewalling than they do now.