{"id":251,"date":"2003-11-10T14:42:45","date_gmt":"2003-11-10T21:42:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-11-10T14:42:45","modified_gmt":"2003-11-10T21:42:45","slug":"the-unkindest-cutputting-the-free-state-project-to-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/10\/the-unkindest-cutputting-the-free-state-project-to-use\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unkindest Cut\/Putting the Free State Project to Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antiwar.com&#8217;s own Alan Bock had this to say in Sunday&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/ocregister\/talking-heads.html><i>OC Register<\/i><\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><i>Dennis Kucinich, who drove Cleveland to bankruptcy before getting himself elected to Congress, is a buffoon who seems determined to use his campaign to discredit the anti-war movement.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Ouch. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, my <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P234_0_1_0>suggestion last week<\/a> of a Kucinich\/Ron Paul megamicrocoalition has gotten some enthusiastic responses from readers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Erich has a plan slightly more convoluted than my own:<\/p>\n<p>[i]1) Ron Paul changes party affiliation to Democrat.  This places him squarely in the Jefferson\/ Jackson tradition and enables a Libertarian shift to the Democratic Party. (Imagine a Libertarian Caucus within the Democrats.)<\/p>\n<p>2)  All of those Libertarians who have moved to New Hampshire&#8230;plus the Live Free or Die folks now have someone to vote for who is neither Bush nor a cookie-cutter Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>3) Momentum builds thoughout the primary season&#8230;and at some point Paul pledges his votes to Kucinich in exchange for the VP spot. Now we&#8217;ve got an operable anti-war coalition.<\/p>\n<p>4) Tricky bit here&#8230;(as if the other steps weren&#8217;t)&#8230; Get Nader and Buchanan to sign on;  get the Libertarian Party to sign on.  Best way to do this is get a Dennis Kucinich\/Ron Paul slot on the Green, Reform, and Libertarian ballots&#8230; This will be hard since Green fundamentalists will not support Paul, and Libertarian fundamentalists won&#8217;t touch Kucinich.  There will have to be a plurality in all three parties who are convinced that the single most significant issue is the war. Which means&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>5) Both candidates will have to stay strictly on message.  Since both candidates are passionate men, and who care deeply about a range of issues, including several where there can be no agreement (health, for example) &#8211; good luck![\/i]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antiwar.com&#8217;s own Alan Bock had this to say in Sunday&#8217;s OC Register: Dennis Kucinich, who drove Cleveland to bankruptcy before getting himself elected to Congress, is a buffoon who seems determined to use his campaign to discredit the anti-war movement. Ouch. Meanwhile, my suggestion last week of a Kucinich\/Ron Paul megamicrocoalition has gotten some enthusiastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}