Reply #26: What a ridiculous crock of shit [View All]

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I read this early this morning and was aghast at the idiocy of it. First, Dean is a centrist, and anyone with a scrap of sense will see this. He's farther to the right than any of the other primary contenders than perhaps Lieberman; take the war vote and the lockstep support of Israel away from it, and even Lieberman's more to the left.

Dean's a great choice. He's a lightning rod. He's hotheaded and sloppy, but remember: that was the first real campaign he ever had to fight. He's a Brahmin who "gets it", as John Edwards pointed out. Kerry is too. Dean got hit with the most elemental of classic campaign dynamics: when in a crowded field, the one who surges early gets clobbered from every side. He was also his own worst enemy with the missteps and the questionable (some downright false) statements about his opponents.

Through all this, he still stands unbowed, and he's a quick learner.

The very fact that the hating primitives of the right seethe so at the mention of the man's name is almost enough to select him as the best spokesman. Mercifully, he has much more going for him than that.