Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are most certainly fringe candidates. I've voiced my complaints about Paul in the thread about him a few weeks ago, and to select a few issues I have with Kucinich, I'll go with his ultra-restrictive and unconstitutional gun control views, and his support of slavery reparations.
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Originally Posted by Elphaba
I believe John Edwards might fit that characterization, if "leading" includes the top three or four of each party.
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Edwards supports gay rights right up to the point that they want to get married. It doesn't matter if you allow civil unions with the same rights as marriage, refusing to allow gay marriage is relegating them to a lower class and saying that they aren't good enough to deserve the same label as straight people.
Edwards claims to be in favor of lowering greenhouse gas emissions but is opposed to further development of nuclear power, the only safe and viable technology that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions in energy production to zero.
Edwards claims to support the constitution while supporting a renewal of the 1994 assault weapons ban, a law that blatantly violates the constitution and did nothing to prevent violent crime or gun crime.
He fails my test for hypocrisy.