Fox News reports that Dennis Kucinich is telling his Iowa supporters to throw their support to Edwards if they make up less than the fifteen percent minimum of their caucus. I find this incredible. But that’s because I find the Kucinich candidacy incredible to begin with. I suppose Kucinich is telling his supporters to go to Edwards in hopes of preventing them from going to Dean, their natural second choice. This does make sense if Kucinich is trying to prevent Dean from winning, thus taking command of the left and effectively ending Kucinich’s candidacy. But the Kucinich candidacy doesn’t make sense in the first place. Since he has no chance, he can only be hoping to get through with a pure message in hopes of pulling the party left. But at this point, with Dean in trouble, doesn’t Kucinich realize that his own candidacy is draining votes from the best hope the anti-war left has of gaining a reasonably sympathetic nominee? True, Dean is a moderate in many respects compared to a purest like Kucinich. But since Kucinich doesn’t have a prayer, and Dean is clearly the most left-leaning of the serious candidates, it is madness at this point for leftists not to support Dean. This is the kind of silliness that spurred the Nader candidacy and lost Gore the election. If Kucinich had a lick of sense, he’d allow his supporters to move to Dean. In fact, if Kucinich had a lick of sense, he’d drop out and endorse Dean.