Reply #1: Don't get me wrong. I LOVE the Big Dawg [View All]

[jfxgillis]

... but he is, after all is said and done, a provinical Southerner by inclination.

Yeah, he's open, tolerant, a genius, and a HUGE character to be able to withstand the assaults on his human dignity, but I'm TIRED of provincial Southerners ruling our political system.

Southern provinicalism has its good qualities as a cultural framework, and there have been times when a dose of such folksy small-d democratic values were a needed jolt to American politics.

But not now. It's been FORTY-FOUR FUCKING YEARS since we've had a Dem in the WH outside the Confederacy. Although I've sworn not to vote for another Southern Dem until a Northern cosmopolitan gets a crack at the Oval, Bush is SO BAD, I'll no doubt vote for a good ole boy if I have to, but I ain't gonna like it.

Hence, my home-stater Kerry, then Howard Dean, qualify. I most want to vote for Russ Feingold, but it looks like he's out this go-round.

This isn't a Southern-bashing thread. I lived ten years in the Deep South. I love it. I'm just sick of the NATIONAL politics dog getting wagged by the SOUTHERN politics tail.