Candidates

I saw the MoveOn Democratic Presidential Candidate Slate today. My analysis:

• Carol Moseley Braun: Would do a good job. Not a chance.
• Sharpton: Dramatically irrelevant.
• Dean: The Ralph Nader of 2004.
• John Edwards: Possible.
• Dick Gephardt: I thought this was the guy from Florida, but I was wrong. I don’t know what the hell this one’s about.
• Graham: Too conservative for my taste, and too old, and from Florida, meaning “probably corrupt.”
• Kerrey: Has money (I stand corrected: it’s his wife’s and she thinks politics is stupid– but he’s pretty well funded anyway). Too Northern. Possible nominee. Looks like Kennedy, which may be a good thing, or not.
• Kuchinich: Unpronouncable, unattractive, too progressive.
• Lieberman: Practically Republican, too old, and too close to the 2000 debacle.