Everyone is talking about Hillary’s speech last night, and while I thought it was good it wasn’t my favorite of the night. That honor goes to Dennis Kucinich’s awesome speech that everyone probably missed unless they were watching PBS or C-Span.
It’s too bad they guy is a little crazy because if there’s one guy who embodies the progressive platform the democrats are moving towards its Dennis. He was against the Patriot Act and the Iraq War before it was cool.
The Governer of Montana, Brian Schweitzer also gave a great speech. Pro-gun rights and a civil rights libertarian, he has led the charge against the federally mandated Real ID act (Fun Fact: he speaks fluent Arabic!). Mountain state Democrats from states like Montana and Colorado really are the future of the party. There are a lot of people in the liberal blogosphere that are pushing him to run for President one day. Democrats have been most succesfull with Governers from southern states (Clinton, Carter) and people have been saying how Obama is redrawing the electoral map. While Obama is putting new states into play, the electoral map would be near unreconizable with Schweitzer. Especially with something like a Schweitzer/Sebelius ticket, pracically every state west of the Mississippi would be blue. I’d like to see republicans try to call this guy elitist.
