{"id":1133,"date":"2004-01-23T12:22:05","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T17:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1133.html"},"modified":"2004-01-23T12:22:05","modified_gmt":"2004-01-23T17:22:05","slug":"i-guess-sharpton-wont-be-the-next-candidate-to-drop-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/i-guess-sharpton-wont-be-the-next-candidate-to-drop-out\/","title":{"rendered":"I guess Sharpton won’t be the next candidate to drop out"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve finally winnowed the Democratic field to a slightly-more manageable seven candidates, but the two candidates with virtually no support or hopes for the future — Al Sharpton and Dennis Kucinich — want everyone to know they’re not going anywhere. That’s a shame.<\/p>\n

Sharpton apparently heard that Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe wants to see the less successful candidates clear the field, assuming they haven’t won any of the first nine primaries\/caucuses by Feb. 4.<\/p>\n

In a letter to McAuliffe<\/a>, the candidate most likely to parlay his candidacy into a talk show opportunity said he isn’t dropping out before the convention.<\/p>\n

“I wish to make it clear that I will continue to campaign vigorously until the last day of the convention to give voice to all Americans who have been too long taken for granted by inside-the-Beltway policies and politicians,” Sharpton explained. He added, “[I]t is my intention to use all the delegates I will gather to ensure that the party’s platform is progressive, inclusive and reflective of minority communities.”<\/p>\n

Delegates? What delegates?<\/p>\n

Anyway, Kucinich’s campaign is also suggesting that he’s not going away either<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Dennis Kucinich has 49 states to go, expects to be in each one, expects this to be a brokered convention, and expects to be the candidate,” campaign spokesman David Swanson said. <\/p>\n

Dennis can “expect” anything he wants, but he’s wasting a lot of time.<\/p>\n

The important difference between Kucinich and Sharpton, of course, is that Kucinich will have to withdraw well before the convention if he plans on keeping his day job — representing Ohio’s 10th congressional district in the House. I’m sure his campaign is sincere about their aspirations, but I can’t imagine Kucinich would realistically sacrifice his seat in Congress for a presidential campaign with no discernable support.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, their comments reinforce one thing: Joe Lieberman will probably be the next candidate to drop out of the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve finally winnowed the Democratic field to a slightly-more manageable seven candidates, but the two candidates with virtually no support or hopes for the future — Al Sharpton and Dennis Kucinich — want everyone to know they’re not going anywhere. That’s a shame. Sharpton apparently heard that Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe wants to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}