responding to 'I love Kucinich, but...'

I usually try to limit the amount of partisan political discussion that I post to veiled4allah. I know that I find it annoying sometimes when a person's blog seems to have been taken over by news about their favorite candidate and I don't want to cause annoyance to others that way. I have a separate blog devoted to Dennis Kucinich where I can post about him to my heart's content. If people are interested, they can visit that blog and if they're not they can skip it. Still, I do post about Kucinich here if there's some larger commentary I want to make. I've never been actively involved in a campaign before, so maybe this is actually a long-standing phenomenon. Nonetheless, I am simply baffled by the number of people who say "I like Kucinich but I don't think he can win, so I'm supporting Dean". You don't think he's got enough support so your answer is not to support him either? Hello? Where is the logic? To me, this kind of attitude is not "pragmatism" but defeatism. Giving up before you've even tried. It's also conformism. Go along with everyone else. Maybe people don't understand the primary process. There is no contradiction between voting for Kucinich in the primaries because you like what he says and voting for Dean in the general because you think he has a better chance of beating Bush. You can do both! They aren't mutually exclusive, people! What makes this so frustrating is the number of people who say this. Believe me, if every person that I have personally heard this from and every person that other Kucinich supporters have heard this from would just vote for Kucinich, he would be a front-runner. That's how many people are saying this. Seriously. In my earlier series of posts about bloc voting I tried to address this concern and present an argument why Muslims at least should vote for Kucinich anyway. Along the same lines is "I love Kucinich, but...", a list of ten reasons to vote for Kucinich anyway. Stop being a sheep and start standing up for what you believe in! If not you, who? If not now, when?