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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (6447)	11/13/2003 2:02:40 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

An anti-war grass roots candidate from Vermont cannot and will not beat Bush. That to me is just common sense. And it doesn't help that he's short of stature, mouths off and gaffes and changes his positions like underwear. The Bushies would have a field day with Dean. They will mock him, belittle him, expose him as weak on defense, a socialist, a tax raiser, an out of touch utopian and way too liberal for mainstream America. A lot of this is done through imagery and words (some of them dean's own words). The Dukakizing of Dean would be relatively easy. Things he's said and done cannot be counter-balanced as in Kerry's case by him being a war hero or a macho man with a gun and a Harley. Plus, Dean has no foreign policy experience at all and that may be our greatest problem to solve in 2005. Dean has benefitted greatly from being the only anti-war candidate once the war went bad, but make no mistake, he does not represent any kind of majority anywhere outside liberal bastions. In short, his type of candidate typically enegreizes about 25% of the party, then fails to get nominated. If by some chance he is nominated because everyone else blows it, then he will fall to Bush by a fairly large margin. That would be very sad.