Posted on 12/24/2011 6:15:35 AM PST by Son House
We have some exciting news this morning! Presidential candidate Aldous Tyler of Wisconsin has announced as of today on Fire Dog Lake that he will be ending his bid for the Democratic nomination and is now endorsing Darcy Richardson.
“I am officially endorsing Darcy Richardson for the Democratic Primary and Caucus season of 2012,” said Tyler in his statement. “He is carrying on the fight far futher than I was capable of doing, and he deserves our support.”
Tyler’s name will remain on the ballot in New Hampshire, as it is past the deadline for the Secretary of State to remove it.
“I am honored to have Mr. Tyler’s support,” said Darcy Richardson. “My friend Aldous took on the difficult and often unenviable task of challenging the President within his own party when a number of better-known progressive Democrats refused to answer the call. Aldous stood for the party’s better self, articulating the kind of forward-looking future that millions of progressives thought they were voting for in 2008. I’m proud of the effort he made and I wholeheartedly welcome his support.”
You can read Aldous Tyler’s complete announcement by clicking here.
Nothing like a little light entertainment...
You don’t suppose this Darcy Richardson is going to throw the election to Obama?
Who ARE these people?
Here’s a page for those who want some Progressive Democrat insights;
Latest Blogs
The Roundup for December 23, 2011
http://news.firedoglake.com/
a couple of examples(there’s more, with links);
I’m surprised the Administration sent out Joe Biden to attack Mitt Romney in a Des Moines Register op-ed just a week or so before the Iowa caucuses. Looks like bad form to me, an attempt to pick the opponent.
Is pepper spray now just a normal law enforcement tool for crowd dispersion? Jeez.
You might consider the only chance the Democrats get if they wise up to another nominee, or just enough opposition the state run media is going to ignore them as they would anything else that is a negative for their chosen candidate.
No, but he does add an angle to see why there should be someone else;
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_interviews_Darcy_Richardson,_Democratic_Party_presidential_challenger_to_Barack_Obama
Which presidential candidates have you supported over the past twenty years?
Richardson: There are probably too many to mention here, but Eugene McCarthy, who sought the Democratic presidential nomination again in 1992, and U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio would be the two that I’ve been most enthusiastic about during the past twenty years. We need more Democrats like them.
What are some of your policy proposals, and if elected, how would you implement these?
Richardson: First and foremost, I’m advocating a capital levy on wealth, not unlike the proposal currently being debated in Germany and other European countries. Much of our current $15 trillion national debt should be recouped from the rich — the pampered and privileged class that hasn’t paid its fair share in recent years.
Though I’m still developing my platform, I also support a second stimulus package — roughly five or six times the size of Obama’s meager $447 billion “Son of Stimulus” — to jump-start the U.S. economy; a Medicare-for-All health care plan; and a moratorium on home foreclosures (for primary residences only), not unlike that initiated by Minnesota’s radical Farmer-Labor Party during the Great Depression. I also want an immediate end to the war in Afghanistan and am strongly opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline.
Eugene McCarthy contended for the ‘92 Dem nomination? I was paying attention at the time and never even noticed.
I wouldn’t mind a modest levy on wealth, just to watch Warren Buffet scream.
Remember part of Limbaugh’s operation chaos was because John McCain wouldn’t oppose his opponents. And now we’ve got Romney, supposedly a leading contender, won’t consider Obama a Socialist.
Operation Chaos was funny but the Dems have been doing it to us a hundred times better than we ever did it to them.
The Republican Party has got to stop this idiocy of open primaries and letting Iowa and New Hampshire decide our candidates.
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