Some unsolicited advice for the candidate, and an invitation for your input.

[Greyhound]

Obviously (I hope), Dennis is my first choice in the nomination process, and I think, contrary to all the naysayers, that he can get the nomination and the Presidency, but I also see that he is currently very vulnerable and in danger of becoming insignificant, again.

In order to win this thing, I think he has to establish himself in the minds of the American Citizens (most of whom don't even know who he is, or that he is running) as the only candidate that will make a real difference in their lives, and to build trust in his capability to carry it off. Right now he is currently polling in the very low single digits, when the pollsters even deign to list him as an option, and that is obviously not good and must be changed.

Barak Obama raised $1,000,000 without breaking a sweat last week, HRC has a war-chest estimated to hold well over $13,000,000 already, and I believe Dennis K. is still trying to raise the first $1,000,000. There are several reasons for this and his admirable rejection of corporate sponsorship is the biggest, but the fact is that it will take a ton of cash to get out there so that the uninformed will know who he is and what his plans are. A million $50 donations is a great start but he has to get the media attention to garner the awareness, to find the million.

To that end, I propose the following strategy;

Forget the traditional path to the nomination, it is quite clear that those that control the Democratic Party would rather see another re :puke: administration in the White house than a liberal. There will never be any support, moral or monetary, from that element, so fuck them. He must leverage technology and the true American majority, the non-voters, and the minorities, to spread his populist message and anti-corporate agenda. Take a page from Raygun, and promise that, once in office, he will appeal directly to the public to get his plans implemented, effectively bypassing the intractable corruption and secrecy that runs DC.

He has to stop playing nice. His "no-strings" tag line is a good start, but it's only a start (and for god's sake stop with the twirling, it is just begging for ridicule), take it further, much further. He has been inside the beltway long enough to know how the sausage is made and who has put what into it, including himself. Use that information, pull out all the stops, name names and go on a slash and burn campaign to either force The Party to change or destroy it. He seems to be hesitant to make that final commitment, and he just has to decide if he is wants to be President or if he wants to maintain his career as a low-level, liberal prop, for The Party.

If he does these things, it then becomes is vital that he gets out in front of all his negatives. He will simply have to make up his mind to take the whole system on as they will come after him with everything they can find or make up about him. The only strategy that will work is to just get all the shit out there, suck up all the free press it will generate, and take the opposition's ammunition away. Then he better get a whole lot of the best security available because they kill him if they can.