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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SecularBull who wrote (458393)	9/13/2003 5:04:48 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Dean represents idealistic white anti-war liberals. That isn't the core. It's just part of the core. It's about 20% of the party maybe. He also interests Nader types and some moderates and he's gotten ten times the media play of any other Dem lately, except Clark if he runs. Dean symbolizes to them hope in bringing down the "corrupt" two party system and the pro-military Bush regime. They like his small-town straight talk and feistiness, and so do I. Dean is quite a guy. Problem is, Dean is the wrong man to send against Bush. The same naivete which had Dems sending Dukakis up to bat against Bush's father is in play here. It's an idealistic notion that the swing-voters in Missouri or Arizona are going to go along with a smart, little left-leaning big mouth from Vermont over the "all-American" flag-waving Imperial Juggernaut of GW Bush with all their money and shrewd political assassins. Believe me, Karl Rove relishes running against Dean. They have the playbook all ready and would unfairly but successfully make him political roadkill. Even Clark as a running mate wouldn't save him. Comments like "Hamas are soldiers" play right into this. Dean is a cooked goose already and his people don't even know it. It's the duty of Dems who want to win to wake up the Deanies and get them off their stubborn position. It won't be easy but in the end they'll have no choice.