May 31, 2007
McKinney For President?
The 2008 White House race has been seemingly riddled with rumors about who might wade into the already crowded pool of candidates (and at least one of those has already proven true).
The latest wild and crazy speculation? Former Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney -- she of Capitol cop-punching fame -- is so disgruntled with the Democratic Party and its slate of contenders that she might seek the Green Party nomination.
Reason magazine's David Weigel picked up the story about a possible McKinney bid yesterday. In a blog post, he quoted McKinney's musings on the White House race from a May 25 interview with New York radio station WBAI:
"Rather than talk about what other candidates don't do, what I could probably rather talk about is what I could do as a potential candidate. So, you know, 2008 has not been ruled out, some kind of effort," she told the interviewer. The Green Party courted McKinney for a run on its presidential ticket in 2000 and 2004, and the Georgia Democrat spoke at the California Green Party's strategy retreat in February. She left office in 2006 after losing the Democratic primary.
Frequent Green candidate Ralph Nader has yet to jump into the race, although he has hinted at a possible run.
